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...India has only recently emerged as a factor on Tokyo's foreign policy radar - for decades it was featured as little more than a major recipient of Japanese development aid. Japanese businessmen showed little interest in the country, turned off by the red tape, the distance - and the decided lack of karaoke bars. Such indifference is still reflected in the small amount of trade between the two countries: Japanese investment in India last year totaled just $253 million - 4% of the amount Japanese investors committed to China over the same period. And Japan receives just 3% of Indian software exports...
...sushi bar in central London with Mario Scaramella, 36, an Italian lawyer and, like Litvinenko, a man drawn to the world of secret information and conspiracy theories. The second meeting was in the Pine Bar of the Millennium Hotel, near the U.S. embassy, with a group of Russian businessmen with whom Litvinenko was apparently hatching business ventures in Britain. "Alexander said both [meetings] were suspicious, and one was probably innocent," says Goldfarb...
...included the richest man in Asia, business magnate Li Ka-shing. Li's great wealth hardly qualifies him as a hero in my book. As an Asian, I would like to think that while our continent's emergence as a global powerhouse is symbolized by the superlative wealth of businessmen like Li, there are many other heroes representing the genuine spirit of Asia who are equally, if not more, deserving of attention. Catherine Chon Hong Kong...
...Still, Indian businessmen are proving to be unusually adept in the international arena. It helps that millions of them already speak English, the global language of commerce. India is also a free-market democracy with a legal system that, though frustratingly slow, is easy for Westerners to understand. The country has longstanding cultural and trade ties with the rest of the world, which adds "a comfort factor" to its business dealings overseas, says Andrew Cahn, chief executive of UK Trade & Investment, a government body that supports foreign companies looking to invest in Britain. To be sure, Indian companies occasionally...
...from using their cars during the summit and taken other measures to keep Beijing's usually clogged streets clear, ordered schools to close early on two critical days, and deployed some 800,000 security personnel to maintain order. The summit is expected to draw some 1,500 African politicians, businessmen and journalists (including 48 heads of state) in a gala climax to years of work by Beijing in nurturing its ties with Africa...