Lenovo wants to do a China in India

October 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has said that India is fully committed to further promoting its relations with China.

October 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat has accused the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the US arms lobby of creating complications in India-China relations. "There has been a revival of the bogey of the threat from China among sections of the corporate media and strategic experts," Karat said in an article written on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the People's Republic of China Thursday.

September 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Thursday said it will hold the third joint military exercise with China next year and clarified that no such drill was planned for this year. "It was mutually decided during the last exercise that the next joint military exercise would be held in 2010, external affairs ministry spokesperson Vishnu Prakash said.

September 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Noting an "ominous" rise in Chinese incursions into the Indian territory, the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday asked the government to bring out a white paper on the "ramifications of India-China relationship". "The BJP demands that the government of India should immediately bring out a white paper on the entire ramifications of India-China relationship, including the improvement and the strengthening of the infrastructure of our preparedness at the borders," said party spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - External Affairs Minister S. M.Krishna on Wednesday informed the Lok Sabha that China has proposed for the establishment of a hotline between the Chinese Premier and the Prime Minister of India to maintain regular contacts at the highest level.

July 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - External Affairs Minister S.M.Krishna today disclosed in the Rajya Sabha that China had objected to funding by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to an irrigation project in Arunachal Pradesh, which is a clear violation of the ADB charter. During Question Hour, Krishna said India had made it clear to all member nations of the ADB, that political considerations couldn't be cited for prohibiting the bank from evaluating any project, and all member countries of the ADB board except China supported India's plan.

June 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Personal computer (PC) sales in India were up 7 percent in the first three months of this year over the last quarter of 2008 but were still about 19 percent less compared to the year-ago period, according to an IT media house report. "A total of 16,79,000 units of client PCs (desktops and notebooks) were shipped during the January-March quarter of 2009," said a report from IDC India, a subsidiary of CyberMedia, a leading IT publication.

June 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India will continue to partner with China on the global stage and strengthen its relations with the Asian power, but at the same time not compromise on its territorial integrity, said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday. In a speech in parliament, Manmohan Singh said that China was a strategic partner with which India has a multi-lateral partnership, including a large trading relationship.

June 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - MM Pallam Raju, Minister of State for Defence after taking charge of his office on Monday said that India is keeping an eye on growing influence of China in Pakistan and other neighbouring countries and steps are taken that it does not pose a threat to India. "There is no shortfall in preparedness from our side in this regard.

May 31st, 2009 China sends large group to buy Taiwanese goodsTAIPEI, Taiwan — A group of Chinese computer and home appliance manufacturers arrived Sunday with plans to buy billions of dollars worth of goods and components from Taiwan, officials and news reports said. Officials from 46 Chinese companies, including big manufacturers such as Lenovo and Haier, have joined the buy-Taiwan group, group leader Li Shuilin said.

April 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Thursday launched an India Business Forum (IBF) in China, a lobby to promote bilateral trade and economic cooperation between the two countries. The IBF will act as a forum for promoting India-China trade through collective and consensual approach and will also work with the Indian embassy in Beijing and others towards 'building brand India', the CII said in a statement released here.

March 6th, 2009 BEIJING - Lenovo, China's largest personal computer maker, aims to sell five million computers in rural areas within three years, China Daily reported Friday. The company plans to establish 700 sales and service outlets in towns, and to cover 320,000 villages across the country through 7,800 sales networks in the next three years.

January 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Former National Security Adviser Brajesh Mishra Thursday said India's stronger relationship with the US after the nuclear deal will make its ties with China 'difficult' and drew attention to speculation about China's suspected designs on Arunachal Pradesh. 'There is speculation about China trying to capture what they call southern Tibet (Arunachal Pradesh).

January 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Czech carmaker Skoda's sales in India went up by 31.9 percent in 2008, the company said in a statement Wednesday. Skoda's global sales went up 7.1 percent to 674,530 units, out of which 16,051 were sold in India and 59,284 in China.

December 28th, 2008 NEW DELHI - The director general of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) is inspecting border outposts along the India-China border to apprise himself of difficulties placed by the troops. ITBP chief Vikram Srivastava has been visiting several border outposts since Dec 25.