How serious is India about foreign investment as an engine for growth?
I will be spending next week in Mumbai and Delhi (with @singarbitration), and in preparation have been contemplating the impact of the recent budget proposals on foreign investment, and in turn the...
View ArticleDoes the NatWest service collapse indicate the true cost of Offshoring?
The "know your customer" requirements that get in the way of banking competition in the UK will prevent an immediate flight of business to those who still retain such operations within the UK (who?)...
View ArticleIntroduction to the Indian Legal System
Indian Legal System An Introduction from Talwant Singh This introduction to the Indian Legal System provides users with a baseline reference when considering outsourcing their IT/e-business operations...
View ArticleADB’s Asia growth forecast highlights importance of services sector
When I opened my (electronic) Financial Times this morning, the headline ‘China slowdown hits Asian growth hopes’ seemed rather gloomy. As an expat European, I was bracing myself for bad news to...
View ArticleMedia freedom at home and abroad
| Number of views :1037I’m shortly off to Baku for the Internet Governance Forum. Azerbaijan is a country with serious issues of media freedom – where journalists regularly face arrest or imprisonment,...
View ArticleMyanmar invites applications for two telecoms licences
Myanmar today (15 January 2013) invited expressions of interest for two national telecommunications services licences. I have blogged about the prospects for telecoms in Myanmar before, and today’s...
View ArticleThe importance of understanding ‘face’ for doing business in Asia
Whilst the focus of this blog is the intersection of telecoms and technology with law and regulation, it does occasionally stray into ‘softer’ topics. With the first anniversary of our Singapore office...
View ArticleWhy bring your own device (BYOD) is not just an IT issue
I was fortunate this week to be both a speaker and a panellist at Questex Asia’s ‘BYOD and Mobile Security conference held in Singapore. It turned out I was the only lawyer in a room of 200 plus IT...
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