Dr. Tawfik Hamid gave an inspiring speech at the Canongate Kirk (Edinburgh) on Wednesday the 25th of May and in the Western Club (Glasgow) on the 26th of May. It was the first time in Scotland for Dr. Hamid. He was pleasantly surprised by the diversity of the audience and their knowledge of the subject.…
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By Aline Dobbie In 2014 when I met and briefly chatted with Dominic Barton the Global CEO of McKinsey and Company at his Asia Scotland Institute talk we spoke of India and that I had written Quicklook at India to help foreign business people understand and respect this great ancient land which is fast forwarding…
Roddy Gow – Inverness May 11th 2016 Roddy Gow, Chairman and Founder of the Asia Scotland Institute was invited to do a talk on the ‘Water Sector in Asia’ at a conference in Inverness. Roddy and his wife April, who live in Scotland and the United States, have had a growing interest in the environment…
Author David Clive Price’s new book ‘Bamboo Strong: Cultural Intelligence Secrets to Succeed in the New Global Economy’ will be published on 25 May 2016 – right in the middle of the Brexit debate and the nomination process for the US presidential candidates. LONDON, UK (PRWEB UK) 12 APRIL 2016 Diversity is the new normal –…
Perspectives shifted for many of those who attended Thursday’s talk on Myanmar. The talk covered up to the minute political aspects as well as the economic climate in the country under the newly elected government of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Peter Popham who is the foremost specialist on Myanmar and author together with Keith Win, a Chartered Accountant…
Ms Barbara Woodward CMG OBE, British Ambassador to China, has now been officially announced as the Champion of the British Council run Generation UK: China Network. The Network aims to connect all British nationals with experience in China to help secure the legacy and long-term benefits of student and professional experience in China. As Champion…
By Martin Hunt A NEW dawn is rising in Southeast Asia as five decades of military rule in Myanmar end after celebrated democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi’s party swept the board at elections. Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, nestles between Thailand, China and India, and in the colonial period during the 19th and early…
MOST long-term projections suggest lands of opportunity now lie in the East, writes Stewart Langdon Western market views of Asia are often binary: red-hot one minute, damp squib the next. It’s an odd attitude to a continent that is home to 60 per cent of humanity, living in 48 countries and speaking some 2,300 languages.…