• Tourism: Indian tourists prefer upscale packages in Malaysia

    Kuala Lumpur, Aug 22 (Calcutta Tube) Malaysian tourism industry was recently urged to create more upscale high-quality travel packages for visitors from India, China and Middle East.
    Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board chairman Victor Wee said the National Key Economic Area (NKEA) has forecast that tourists from these countries would increase to 25 percent from the current 15 percent in the [...]

  • A Tribute From India to the ‘old Diaspora’

    New Delhi, Aug 22 – A diaspora memorial will be inaugurated early next year in Kolkata as a tribute to India’s ‘old diaspora’ – the thousands of indentured labourers who left India during 1834-1920 to work in remote British colonies and whose descendants are now spread across the Caribbean and parts of Africa.
    The memorial at [...]

  • The India factor in Mauritius

    “W hen you see a BMW or a Mercedes Benz on the roads of Mauritius you can be sure the owner will be either an Indian or a Chinese… people of Indian and Chinese origin are among the richest here,” says Ms Nicole Bundhooa, Public Relations Manager at One&Only Le Saint Geran Resort in Mauritius.
    The [...]

  • Malaysia on verge of finalising FTA with India

    KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia said Monday it was on the verge of finalising a free trade agreement with India and that the deal was expected to be signed at the end of October.
    Deputy Trade Minister Mukhriz Mahathir said the two nations had made good progress on the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) and that it [...]

  • India’s Huge Market Offers Insatiable Appetite For Malaysian Products

    By Manik Mehta
    MUMBAI, Aug 23 (Bernama) — If Malaysia plays its cards well, it can easily foray into India’s huge market which has developed an insatiable appetite for good quality products from Malaysia and other Asian countries.
    “It is quite easy to identify buyers in India. It is more of a challenge finding the right suppliers [...]

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    The India factor in Mauritius

    “W hen you see a BMW or a Mercedes Benz on the roads of Mauritius you can be sure the owner will be either an Indian or a Chinese… people of Indian and Chinese origin are among the richest here,”

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    Happy Independence Day

    India won its freedom on 15th August, 1947. All the patriotic hearts rejoiced at seeing India becoming a sovereign nation and the triumph of hundreds and thousands of martyred souls. It was a birth of a new nation and a

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    Protect and promote heritage, Indians urged

    THE Indian community must take action to protect and promote the Tamil language and culture in this country, Tamil Nesan reported. It quoted Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk T. Murugiah as saying this after attending the Tamilar

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    Indian-origin man cracks world’s toughest sum

    London: An Indian-origin computer scientist based in the US claims to have solved one of the world’s most complex mathematical riddles. Vinay Deolalikar, who works with the US multinational information technology corporation Hewlett-Packard in California, believes he has solved the problem

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    German varsities struggle to attract Indian students

    Justus Liebig University in the student city of Giessen is named after the German chemist who gave the world artificial fertilizer and baking powder and was a member of its faculty alongside such luminaries of science as Wilhelm C. Roentgen,

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    At MBA Schools, Indians Go to the Top

    By Tripti Lahiri Come January, Indian-origin business experts will head at least two MBA programs that regularly feature in top-10 rankings of U.S. business schools. On Wednesday, the University of Chicago announced that Sunil Kumar, an operations management

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    Cendol fresh from a bottle

    GETTING a bowl of thirst-quenching cendol may seem simple enough to you — your regular cendol man by the roadside piles on the coconut milk, gula Melaka and ice shavings onto a bowl and presents it to you.
    Now that may sound easy, but what if there were an even easier way to enjoy your favourite [...]

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    Destination India

    Serving under-served routes in India is paying rich dividends for Tony Fernandes’ AirAsia. Can the largest low-cost carrier in South-East Asia stay ahead of rivals? Tiruchirappalli or Trichy lies somewhere in the middle of the highway that connects Chennai with Kanyakumari, the southernmost tip of the country. It is a hub for industrial engineering, houses [...]

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    Durban to host Africa diaspora conference

    Come October and the Indian diaspora in Africa will converge for the Mini Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) in Durban, marking the city’s historic links with India and aiming to ‘build bridges’ between them and their country of origin.
    The event, titled ‘PBD-Africa’, is to be held in the South African city Oct 1-2 on the [...]

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    Consul Heads Address New Visa Regulations at ICC Meet

    ILPITAS, Calif. – More than 400 Indian Americans crowded into the auditorium at the India Community Center here July 29 to ask San Francisco Indian Consulate officials questions about the new complex rules for travel to India.
    Many in the crowd expressed frustration over a new regulation requiring any Indian who has become a naturalized citizen [...]

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    Chennai-KL Business Council Mooted To Bolster Trade Ties

    By P.Vijian
    CHENNAI, Aug 5 (Bernama) — The formation of a Chennai-Kuala Lumpur Business Council has been mooted by Malaysian businessmen, to take the existing trade ties with the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu to a higher level.
    The proposal to set up the council came just days after top officials from the southern city of [...]

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