5th ASEAN-India Business Summit 2023: The 5th Asean-India Business Summit took place on 6 March 2023 in Kuala Lumpur. Speakers and participants from Asean and India convened to discuss how business linkages, connectivity and supply chain resilience can be enhanced through deeper ASEAN-India cooperation. The Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology addresses the 5th ASEAN-India Business summit.
March 2023 Current Affairs Quiz
About the ASEAN-India Business summit:
It is being held as part of the ASEAN-India Year of Friendship to commemorate the more than three-decade-long engagement between India and the 10-member bloc in Kuala Lumpur.
Key facts about ASEAN:
- It is a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which was founded in 1967 with the signing of the Bangkok Declaration.
- Founding members: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
- ASEAN currently has ten member countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
- It promotes intergovernmental cooperation and facilitates economic, political, security, military, educational, and sociocultural integration between its members and other countries in Asia.
Malaysia: FAST FACTS:
This Southeast Asian country consists of two regions separated by the South China Sea.
- FORM OF GOVERNMENT: Federal constitutional monarchy
- CAPITAL: Kuala Lumpur
- POPULATION: 32,400,000
- OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Malay
- CURRENCY: Ringgit
- AREA: 127,355 square miles (329,847 square kilometers)
- MAJOR MOUNTAIN RANGES: Main, Crocker, Bintang, Hose, Iran
- MAJOR RIVERS: Rajang, Sugut, Pahang, Klang.
