Meanwhile, Clayton has had luck recruiting talent from Indonesia, Thailand, and Bangladesh to Singapore through coding competitions.

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At one stage it included present-day Bangladesh and Thailand.

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Pidilite now has 14 overseas subsidiaries with manufacturing operations in the U.S., Brazil, Thailand, Dubai, Egypt and Bangladesh.

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The company has 14 overseas subsidiaries with factories in the US, Thailand, Dubai, Egypt and Bangladesh and a research center in Singapore.

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Today Huntsman is listed and has moved into specialty chemicals, with operations spread across Asia in 22 different countries, not only in China but also in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Thailand.

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Nations like Cambodia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, China and Bangladesh (just to name a few) have risen up and provided real supply to meet real demand for lower-cost manufacturing.

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Other speakers today were the representatives of France, Japan, United States, Mexico, Croatia, Costa Rica, China, Turkey, Libya, Austria, Burkina Faso, Russian Federation, Viet Nam, Egypt (also on behalf of Ireland), Burundi, Canada, Sweden (on behalf of the European Union), New Zealand, Australia, Peru, Morocco, Germany, Guatemala, Brazil, Sierra Leone, Uruguay, Norway, India, Thailand, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Italy, Republic of Korea and Switzerland.

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Mr Chowdhury points out that this cumbersomely named grouping is the only one in the region that includes countries to both the west (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka) and east (Thailand) of Myanmar.

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"Our country is the gateway for this kind of drug-resistant malaria to spread west to Bangladesh and India, " Saw Lwin, from Burma's Health Ministry, told reporters in Thailand.

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