India

India to open super highway to Burma and Thailand

India is to open a new four lane motorway to allow traders and tourists to drive from its eastern tea state of Assam into Burma, Thailand and eventually Cambodia and Vietnam.

Published

9 years ago

May 30, 2012

Aishwarya Gupta

Both countries signed the Thailand-India Free Trade Agreement Framework on 9 October 2003, covering trade in goods, services, and investment

India is to open a new four lane motorway to allow traders and tourists to drive from its eastern tea state of Assam into Burma, Thailand and eventually Cambodia and Vietnam.

The new “trilateral highway” is aimed at creating a new economic zone ranging from Calcutta on the Bay of Bengal to Ho Chi Minh City on the South China Sea.The first phase of the project was agreed during Indian prime minister Dr Manmohan Singhs visit to Burma this week when he and President Thein Sein set a 2016 deadline to complete a super highway linking Guwahati in Assam to Burmas border with Thailand via Mandalay and the former capital Rangoon.

Both countries signed the Thailand-India Free Trade Agreement Framework on 9 October 2003, covering trade in goods, services, and investment

According to analysts, the road is a key part of a plan to open the “Mekong-India Corridor” to link the worlds second fastest growing market – India – with the new Asian Tiger economies of Indo-China.

Until now plans to open this new economic zone, which bypasses China, the worlds fastest growing economy and superpower, have been hampered by international sanctions against the former military regime in Burma.

via India to open super highway to Burma and Thailand – NY Daily News.

India

RCEP trade deal hits snag over India’s demand

The 16 Asian and Oceanian countries involved in the regionwide RCEP trade deal have decided to delay the conclusion of that deal until next year.

Published

1 year ago

November 5, 2019

Olivier Languepin

RCEP negotiations hit a snag as India has grown wary of an expected influx of goods from China, with which the South Asian country runs a massive trade deficit.

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India

Thailand woos Southeast Asian tourists with shopping campaign

The programme called “Give Me Five” is set to increase shopping among tourists from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) along with Indonesia, Malaysia and India.

Published

1 year ago

August 10, 2019

Boris Sullivan

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India

Marketing and investment strategies in Myanmar, India

To encourage Thai SME operators to enter the international market, the Office of Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion (OSMEP) aims to urge them to invade Myanmar, Cambodian, Chinese and Indian markets.

Published

2 years ago

July 27, 2019

National News Bureau of Thailand

Marketing and investment strategies in Myanmar, India

BANGKOK, 26 July 2019 (NNT) – To encourage Thai SME operators to enter the international market, the Office of Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion (OSMEP) aims to urge them to invade Myanmar, Cambodian, Chinese and Indian markets.

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