An interesting article from Businessweek.com regarding assessing your superior and really publicly announced on the company’s intranet to all the staff. What’s more superb is that this innovative idea on how to structure and lead organizations is coming out from emerging market like India:-
Details:

At India’s HCL Technologies, the fifth-largest of India’s info-tech outsourcers,workers get to grade […]

It is interesting to see how Malaysian Airline System Bhd plans to reduce costs by up to RM1 billion over a period of five years under its business transformation plan to become a “five-star airline at low-cost carrier’s cost”.
According to MAS’s MD, Encik Jala, it targeted to save from the following activities:
-RM200 million from procurement […]

There are so much news on Prime Minister Datuk Badawi’s effort to pursue the mega projects like the IDR, ECER,etc.
It therefore looks like there really might not be any more impetus to forge ahead the ambitious mega MSC project under the previous regime.
Extracted from www.msc.com.my is the so called latest listing of International World Class […]

The data below might be useful to readers who are in the midst of venturing to India and need a quick snapshot of the biggest cities in India.

Rank

City

State

Population

1
Mumbai(
Bombay)

Maharashtra
20,426,991

2

Delhi

Delhi
18,031,488

3
Kolkata(
Calcutta)

West Bengal
14,911,823

4
Chennai(
Madras)
Tamil Nadu
7,066,778

5

Bangalore
Karnataka
6,255,256

6

Hyderabad
Andhra Pradesh
6,112,250

7
Ahmedabad

Gujarat
5,360,238

8
Pune
Maharastra
4,878,283

9

Kanpur
Uttar Pradesh
3,329,339

10

Surat

Gujarat
3,092,478

11
Jaipur
Rajasthan
2,926,915

12

Lucknow
Uttar Pradesh
2,845,253

13

Nagpur
Maharastra
2,485,915

14

Patna

Bihar
2,386,843

15

Indore
Madhya Pradesh
1,944,464

16

Meerut
Uttar Pradesh
1,723,065

17

Bhopal
Madhya Pradesh
1,677,896

18
Vadodara(
Baroda)

Gujarat
1,641,566

19

Ludhiana

Punjab
1,624,767

20
Bhubaneshwar
Orissa
1,608,507

21

Coimbatore
Tamil Nadu
1,590,568

22

Agra
Uttar Pradesh
1,585,555

23
Nashik

Maharashtra
1,576,651

24

Kochi (
Cochin)
Kerala
1,490,882

25

Visakhapatnam
Andhra Pradesh
1,462,355

26

Varanasi(
Benares)
Uttar Pradesh
1,460,731

27

Rajkot

Gujarat
1,364,432

28

Madurai
Tamil Nadu
1,314,074

29
Asansol

West Bengal
1,260,695

30

Jabalpur
Madhya Pradesh
1,228,866

31

Allahabad
Uttar Pradesh
1,216,837

32

Jamshedpur
Jharkand
1,211,932

33
Dhanbad
Jharkand
1,170,742

34

Amritsar

Punjab
1,158,601

35

Aurangabad
Maharastra
1,114,918

36

Vijayawada
Andhra Pradesh
1,112,219

37

Mysore
Karnataka
1,103,552

38

Srinagar

Jammu and Kashmir
1,068,446

39
Solapur

Maharashtra
1,064,935

40
Bhilai
Chhattisgarh
1,061,535

41

Ranchi
Jharkhand
1,014,718

42
Thiruvananthapuram (
Trivandrum)
Kerala
1,008,862

43
Guwahati

Assam
989,240

44

Chandigarh

Chandigarh
971,947

45

Kozhikode (
Calicut)
Kerala
968,143

46

Gwalior
Madhya Pradesh
958,764

47

Salem
Tamil Nadu
956,329

48
Tiruchirapalli
Tamil Nadu
931,803

49
Jalandhar

Punjab
911,781

50

Bareilly
Uttar Pradesh
875,165

[extracted from […]

 
For the last year 2006, reported by MIDA on the approved number of OHQs in Malaysia:
 

from 19 in 2005 increased by 42% to 27 in 2006
total paid up capital of Rm107.7 million
from Rm181.4million increased by 65.8% to Rm300.7million of total annual business spending
4 OHQs involved upgrading from existing regional offices and two involved relocation of […]