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New Report on opportunities for scientific & technology co-operation between Ireland & India.

Commissioned by the Irish Government, this report from the National Institute of Science and Technology and Development Studies studies the capacity of the scientific establishments in both countries to work together, identifies specific areas of future scientific cooperation and sketches out the kind of mechanisms we need to make it work...' extract from foreword by Ambassador Kenneth Thompson). Click here to download the report.

Dr Leo Varadkar in India

Minister Leo Varadkar, Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport visited India for a series of trade, economic and cultural events over the St Patrick’s Day period.

Click here to access his interview with Vickram Bahl on Doordarshan Indian national television

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BzSq9tXhlw&feature=channel_video_title

Click here to read a report on the visit from Business India.

ASEAN-EU Relations

ASEAN-EU Relations - ASEAN’s priorities in 2011, the challenges ahead and relations with the European Union from the Friends of Europe, an independent think tank for EU policy analysis and debate.
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The Myth of Japan's 'Lost Decades'

By Eamonn Fingleton
The Atlantic
Feb 26 2011

In this slot a few days ago I posed some historical questions that, judging by the email I have been receiving, have perplexed a lot of readers.

Let me now fast-forward to our own time and try some questions that will probably prove almost equally perplexing. They concern the Japanese economy, that erstwhile juggernaut of world trade of the late 1980s, which, we are told, has been mired in stagnation ever since.