5th ASEAN-India Business Summit 2023

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.