Southeast Asia

With the great opportunities to affect the long last socioeconomic, political and cultural reform has make the Philippines stands on the acme of the new era of prosperity. Philippines require a dynamic local consumer market and attract foreign investment by investors outside of the country in key growth industries. Strategic location of Philippines which flanked by the Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea makes it a critical point to some 500 million people in the ASEAN market. Therefore,…

Pakistan and India got independence from Colonial power and are neighbors. It is necessary to maintain cordial relation with neighbours for internal stability and peace. That’s why both countries, Pakistan and India, had started maintaining their diplomatic relation from Nehru Liaquat times. Simla Agreement was the eighth step between India and Pakistan towards this aim. It was signed, to normalize the situation and to settle the pre war issue of 1971, between Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Indira…

average elevation of about 15 metres above sea-level, also has River Gingee, Ponnaiyarand other streams forming the two main drainage basins, interspersed with lagoons, lakes and tanks. River Gingee crosses the region diagonally from northwest to southeast. Ponnaiyar forms the southern border. GEOGRAPHICAL ZONES: Puducherry region consists of four geographical zones. The coastal zones which includes newer and older dunes. The second zone is made up of the two plateaus called the Puducherry…

2. Cases from Japan 2.1 Bellport Ashiya 2.1.1 Overview Bellport Ashiya- complex of facilities centered around marina, or small port (dock with mooring s and supplies for yachts and small boats) located in Hyoogo Prefecture, Ahiya City in the artificial South Ahiya island. It is known that first kind in Japan of residential district attached to berth. Regarding administration is one part of…

Thailand, the fourth populous country in ASEAN with more than 67 million population in 2014, is the second target market for General Mills’ Cheerios to enter. With such density of 132 people per sq. km, Thailand market brings a great potential to offer. To measure the culture in Thailand, Hofstede’s cultural analysis was used. In a glimpse, Thai culture looks similar to Indonesian, but not identical. Thailand shows a high power distance, but less power distance than Indonesia, and that explains…

Tree of Heaven is a sumac plant that is native to China, but it moved into Indiana and is now an invasive species. It’s scientific name is Ailanthus altissima. The tree of heaven came to the United States in the late 1700’s. The reason that it’s an invasive species is because it crowds out native species and damages pavement and building foundations. Tree of heaven is a native of China and in 1751 was mistakenly introduced into France and England by a missionary who though it was a Japanese…

THE SENKAKU ISLANDS DISPUTE Overview of the Senkaku Islands Dispute The Senkaku Islands are a series of islands located in the East China Sea that are currently being controlled by Japan They have a total area of about 7 square kilometers and lie north-east of Taiwan, east of the Chinese mainland and south-west of Japan's southern-most prefecture, Okinawa. These islands are considered very important to all three countries due to their close proximity to important shipping lanes, rich grounds…

“many employees normally have to work between 10 to 12 hours, sometimes 16 to 18 hours a day and over time if workers cannot work the additional hours they face penalties, verbal abuse and dismissals”. By moving its production sites to places like Asia, Nike is able to pay workers a low minimum wage, also allowing the corporation to dodge responsibility for the treatment of its work force. Nike have managed to devise a plan to escape the responsibility and liability of insuring that it…

Forty-eight years ago today, in the year of 1969, the people of Papua New Guinea were still using stone tools. Whereas, families in the U.S. were watching on television as their countryman were landing on the moon. There has to be a reason for the people of Papua New Guinea using stone tools in the modern age, while countries like the U.S. are more advanced in technology and this country hasn’t been around as long as countries in Europe and Africa. Geography is the reason of the inequality…

We propose a total annexation of the Philippines as an American colony in order to protect American economic interests abroad. Firstly, recent economic success in the United States has created an economic surplus that cannot be contained within American borders that must be spread to other nations. Finding new employments for capital has and should be achieved by “great industrial countries [turning] to countries which have not felt the pulse of modern progress.” The Philippines would be a new…