Thailand identifies two areas of cooperation with India

Thailand today identified tourism and food processing industry as the two possible areas of cooperation with India. At an interactive session here, permanent trade representative, minister at Prime minister's office in Thailand, Nalinee Taveesin, highlighted growing India-Thailand business opportunities which are the result of Thailand's "Look West Policy' and India's...

Pact pill for Thai trade

A comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA) between India and Thailand, likely to be concluded within three months, will increase bilateral trade to $14 billion by 2014 from around $8.6 billion in 2012. The two countries have already implemented an early harvest scheme as part of the framework agreement to establish...

ASEAN-India ties boosted by FTA conclusion

NEW DELHI: Twenty years of ASEAN-India ties received a boost in New Delhi on Thursday with the announcement that the much-awaited ASEAN-India Free Trade Agreement (FTA) has been concluded, after discussions on the investment and services chapters were completed. Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who is in India for...