By Murray Hiebert & Nguyen Manh Hung — Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will be the first Southeast Asian head of government to visit the United States and meet with President Donald Trump in the White House. Phuc, who…
GST rates are set for more than 1,000 products; Andhra is building an industrial park in Sri Lanka; Odisha nearly doubles tariffs on captive power plants; Uttar Pradesh will build a solar park — in Rajasthan; Maharashtra makes it easier…
Andhra signs agreement with Iowa on agriculture and life science; Suzuki Motors ramps its investment in Gujarat to over $2 billion; India’s lowest solar tariff at 3 cents/unit in Rajasthan; underground stretch of Chennai Metro Rail starts operations; new Uttar…
By Kartikeya Singh — India’s state power ministers convened in Delhi recently for an unusual group meeting. The event had a dual purpose: partly to celebrate how far India has come in rebuilding its power sector, and partly to lay…
By Shefali Dhar — Significant items on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s legislative agenda — such as the Coal Mines (Special Provision) Bill, and the Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill, have been passed by India’s Parliament despite the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP)…
In this episode we explore how Japan’s relations with Southeast Asia have expanded from economic engagement and development assistance to also include security collaboration and maritime capacity building. To discuss the dynamics of Japan-Southeast Asia relations, we turned to Dr.…
The AIIB makes its first investment in India; Jharkhand makes it free to register property in a woman’s name; state power ministers support pooling of all types of power generation; the Madhya Pradesh fiscal year will start January 1; and…
By Christopher K. Johnson, Matthew P. Goodman, & Jonathan E. Hillman — Background China’s biggest diplomatic event of the year is on May 14–15, when President Xi Jinping will welcome leaders from 28 countries and delegates from 110 countries at…
By Dominic Chiu — China is one of the largest and fastest-growing film industries in the world. At the same time, it maintains extensive quantitative and content restrictions on the screening of foreign films. In 2016 China raised the number…
Andhra Pradesh stops development of coal-fired power plants; Tamil Nadu to connect 12,000 villages to the internet; Gujarat caps private school fees; Haryana goes “kerosene free”; Walmart expands in Telangana; and more. Center-State relations Although the Real Estate (Regulation and…
