29 Feb 2012
"Today's data is dismal, and the full year's growth at 6.9% looks difficult."
India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew at 6.1 per cent for the quarter ending 31 December 2011, signalling a sharp slowdown in economic activity.
The GDP growth is also slower than the 6.9 per...
2011 World Outsourcing Market
29 February 2012
The combined IT services and software sector, including the internal market, rose by 32.4% to reach $292 billion during the year.
Extrapolating these growth rates would suggest that China is poised to overtake India in IT outsourcing revenue...
28 February 2012
The gross domestic product or GDP figures due for release on Wednesday are expected to show the economy expanding at the slowest pace since 2008 by 6.4 per cent.
India's GDP figures likely to disappoint: analysts
Feb 25, 2012
Thailand has developed such successful electronics and auto industries that it now produces from 35 to 40 percent of all computer hard disk drives and, in 2010, built more light trucks than Japan.
In agriculture, besides being the worlds biggest rice exporter, Thailand...
World Cheapest Tablet project mission FAILED
25-2-2012
Problems such as low battery life, low memory, frequent system freezes, poor sound quality, absence of support for all formats and inability to install free software available online were also cited by users...
2008 Olympics - China dethrone the US to become the new sports superpower.
1. China won 51 gold medals
2. USA won 36 gold medals
2008 Olympics - 118 participating countries did not win a medal. Athletes from China won 51 gold medals, the most of any nation at these Olympics, China will be...
31, Janauary
Aakash was billed as the world’s cheapest tablet PC, just three months after its triumphant launch, India’s $49 tablet computer is mired in an ugly public relations war.
Anyone who is complaining that there is a quality problem is comparing it to the wrong level...
China to eliminate endemic diseases in 5 yrs
2012-01-30 09:04
According to the plan, China will enhance monitoring to predict and cure nationwide endemic diseases to provide scientific strategy for prevention and treatment, and encourage people to maintain a healthy lifestyle through...
Overpopulation India
The UN has warned of widespread shortages of food and water if India's demographic growth does not slow down.
A new multidimensional poverty Index shows that India is far poorer than Africa in both intensity and in number.
Africa is poor but India is poorer. Africans are...
India can win Nobel for *****, says environment minister Jairam Ramesh
"Our cities are the dirtiest cities of the world. If there is a Nobel Prize for dirt and *****, India will win it, no doubt," he said
India can win Nobel for *****, says Jairam Ramesh - Times Of India
China’s Shift to Growth From Domestic Consumption Already Showing Results
China's domestic demand accounted for 92.1 percent of the country’s GDP growth in 2010 while net exports contributed 7.9 percent.
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China's Shift to Growth From Domestic Consumption...
Ric Birch does not want to work in India again
Payment outstanding
The final straw for Ric is the fact that he still has not been paid. He says he is owed $350,000 (£225,000) and the Indian government has not told him why he has not received his money.
"They don't answer...
4 Jan 2012
In the old days, China and Africa had always sympathized and supported each other and we forged a profound friendship in the struggle for national liberation. Nowadays, on the basis of the traditional friendship, China and Africa have seized the opportunities for development and...
Jan 2012
(BRICs) The acronym was coined by Goldman Sachs in a 2001 paper entitled "Building Better Global Economic BRICs".
Goldman Sachs says that the country that has been the biggest letdown has been India.
Goldman Sachs: from brick to basket case, what is going on in India? Well...
BEIJING, Dec. 29
According to a report issued by the National Tourist Administration, China has become the third-largest tourism market in the world. Total income from inbound and outbound tourism for the five years leading up to 2010, totals six trillion yuan. (US$ 850 billions)
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