Derwin Pereira, Author at Pereira International

China-watchers optimistic about country’s growth and switch to market economy

Asia Society business conference -------------------------------- DESPITE serious problems of high inflation, massive unemployment and loss-making state enterprises, a panel of China-watchers yesterday was

Hanoi banking on education to modernise economy

Asia Society business conference -------------------------------- VIETNAM is banking on education and training for its workforce to modernise its moribund command economy. "In the coming

‘Change in India will not be as dramatic as China’s’

Asia Society business conference -------------------------------- INDIA would change but the transformation would not be as dramatic as China's, Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew

Suzhou project : How it all began – SM Lee

Asia Society business conference -------------------------------- SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew yesterday recounted how the idea of the Suzhou industrial township project in China

Vice-PM Li says China and world need each other

Asia Society business conference -------------------------------- CHINA needed the world and the world needed China, the Chinese Vice-Premier, Mr Li Lanqing, said yesterday. "China's development

Anwar to the West : Stop lecturing and hectoring developing countries

Asia Society business conference -------------------------------- MALAYSIA'S Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim yesterday told the West to stop lecturing and hectoring developing countries. "Give us

US will not use labour standards to hinder developing countries : Wolf

Asia Society business conference -------------------------------- ASSISTANT US Trade Representative Ira Wolf said yesterday that the United States would not use Western labour standards

Regional trade, investment the focus of next Apec meet

Asia Society business conference -------------------------------- THE next Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) meeting in Indonesia in November would focus on regional trade and investment,

South-east Asian countries are upbeat and raring to go

Asia Society business conference -------------------------------- 'Dominoes' have become 'dynamos': Jaya SOUTH-EAST Asian countries are in a confident mood and their leaders, no longer looking

Vietnam wants to get back into mainstream of S-E Asia

Asia Society business conference -------------------------------- VIETNAM is anxious to get back quickly into the mainstream of South-east Asia to develop its war-torn economy. Prime

Asean ‘in for a great future over next decade’

Asia Society business conference -------------------------------- THE doyen of Asia's management consultants, Mr Washington Sycip, yesterday gazed into the crystal ball and pronounced a

Kiet : China’s claim over oilfield unacceptable

Asia Society business conference -------------------------------- VIETNAM yesterday dismissed China's claim of sovereignty over the Blue Dragon oilfield in the Vietnamese continental shelf as

Author: Derwin Pereira