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In the last financial year, 79% of funds raised by ChildFund Australia, from both individual and organisational donors, was used to deliver program objectives for children and communities. This equated to over $38 million.

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• Annual Report 2013-14 
• Audited Financial Statement 2013-14 
• ChildFund Australia's Reserves Policy

ChildFund Australia is a member of the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) and a signatory to the ACFID Code of Conduct. The Code requires members to meet high standards of corporate governance, public accountability and financial management.

ChildFund Australia is fully accredited by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade which manages the Australian Government’s overseas aid program. Accreditation is a stringent process in which all operational activities – financial, managerial, fundraising and program – are analysed.

The Australian Taxation Office has also endorsed ChildFund Australia as a deductible gift recipient and income-tax exempt charitable entity.

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Children like Thura in the above video urgently need protectionfrom trafficking, violence, abuse and exploitation.

Myanmar (formally Burma), the poorest country in South East Asia, has an estimated 5 million children living below the poverty line including an estimated 1 million street children or orphans living without parental care. All of these children are vulnerable to trafficking, exploitative and harmful labour, recruitment into armed forces, physical violence, commercial sexual exploitation, and sexual abuse.

Yamin is from Mandalay, a large city in central Myanmar.

When she was 13 years old Yamin was kidnapped from her home and disappeared without a trace. 

Read her story here.

Common cases of exploitation and trafficking include:

• Girls under 18 years who are forced to marry a stranger. Many are kidnapped and moved across the border without any information on where they have gone and some are lost from home forever.
• Children between the ages of 7 and 16 who work in shops, factories, services and restaurants. These child workers do not receive regular income and only get small wages.
• Boys sold as workers for hard labour in dangerous and unprotected working conditions.
• Children who have been recruited into armed forces.

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• Providing refuge centres for vulnerable street children to ensure they are protected and provided with the physical and psychological care they need.
• Making sure children know their rights and who to turn to when they are in danger.
• Ensuring the whole community are aware of the dangers children face and take action to protect children.
• Training staff to counsel children, record abuse and report crimes against them.

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How to Clean Install OS X Yosemite

Most Mac users who are upgrading to OS X Yosemite should go through the standard process via the Mac App Store and start the installation from there, it’s by far the easiest approach and it generally goes flawlessly. Some users like to perform what is known as a clean installation of Mac OS X though, which is essentially wiping the Mac drive, and starting fresh with a brand new untouched install of OS X Yosemite, and then manually copying or accessing files and re-installing apps. While clean installing is not particularly difficult, it’s considered more advanced because it’s a much more hands-on and lengthy process than simply updating to OS X 10.10 through the App Store.

For those who are interested in performing a clean install on their Mac, which basically makes OS X Yosemite appear as if it was brand new, without any settings, preferences, apps, or anything else carried over from before, we’ll cover the process thoroughly in this walkthrough.

The requirements for fresh installsare fairly straightforward:

• A Mac which can run OS X Yosemite – in terms of system requirements, the machines which support Yosemite are the same as that which can run Mavericks
• An OS X Yosemite bootable installer drive – usually this is a USB disk but it can be whatever so long as the drive is bootable, the installer by itself is insufficient unless you’re fresh installing onto a different partition or volume. If you haven’t made one of these yet, do that first

Important: A clean install of OS X Yosemite requires formatting the Mac hard drive, meaning all contents on the disk will be removed and erased. Be sure you have your important files backed up before attempting this.

How to Perform a Fresh Installation of OS X Yosemite on a Mac

1. Back up the Mac with Time Machine or by manually copying your most important data to an external drive – never skip backing up your important data
2. Attach the OS X Yosemite bootable installer drive to the Mac, then reboot as normal
3. During boot down the OPTION key until a boot selection menu appears, choose “Install OS X Yosemite” as the drive to boot (this is the USB installer)

4. When the “OS X Utilities” screen appears, choose “Disk Utility”

5. Choose the hard drive (or partition) from the left side menu which is the destination for the clean Yosemite install, then choose the “Erase” tab
6. Choose the Format type as “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)”, name the drive something obvious (like Macintosh HD or Yosemite HD), and then choose “Erase” – this will format the drive / partition and all contents on it

7. When the drive has finished formatting, quit Disk Utility to return to the OS X Utilities menu
8. Now from the “OS X Utilities” menu, select “Install OS X”

9. Click through the Terms of Service and basics, and select the freshly formatted “Macintosh HD” or “Yosemite HD” drive to set as the destination for the fresh install of OS X

OS X Yosemite will install a completely clean slate version of itself on the blank destination drive, giving the user a fresh start. Because the drive was formatted first, no existing operating system will be updated, and no other contents on the drive will be brought over.
As covered in a separate article, installing the newest version of OS X can take quite a while, though clean installs are generally faster than upgrades. Nonetheless, the Yosemite installation may appear stuck, but it’s probably not, and waiting it out is usually the right choice. 
When installation has complete, the Mac will reboot into OS X Yosemite and go through the normal new setup process. 

Remember, no data will be on the volume aside from the fresh Yosemite installation, so it’s up to the user to re-install necessary apps, adjust preferences, and most importantly, recover or transfer over again their important documents and files.

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How to Install OS X Yosemite on Any External Drive (Thumb Drive, USB Disk, etc)

We’ve covered how to install OS X Yosemite onto a separate partition of an internal hard disk and dual boot with OS X Mavericks, but many Mac users have wondered if it’s possible to install OS X 10.10 onto an external drive instead, thereby avoiding any modifications to the primary Mac hard drive or partition table. The answer is yes, you can install Yosemite onto an external disk, and yes it will be bootable, we’ll show you exactly how to do that.

The method described in this tutorial works to install a bootable OS X Yosemite instance onto any external disk, whether it’s a USB flash drive, a generic external hard drive, or whatever other external volume you have. If you’re going to try this, aim to use the fastest possible external drive for the best experience, otherwise you’ll find the entire process and overall OS X 10.10 experience to be quite slow running off an external disk. You can speed test your external drives with free third party tools if you’re not sure if the performance is particularly good or bad, but it’s safe to say that faster read and write speeds is better.

Requirements for Installing Yosemite onto an External Disk

• An external drive (USB thumb drive, hard drive, SD card, any external disk) with 16GB of space available or greater (the base OS X 10.10 installation uses about 10GB, and you’ll want some extra space for swap, caches, and test files)
• A Yosemite compatible Mac
• OS X Yosemite Dev Preview downloaded and ready to go
• Patience for a (likely) slower experience

The last point is important, because the experience very well be much slower than what you’re used to. Again, this is dependent on the speed of the external drive that Yosemite is being installed onto. If you use a slow external flash drive or old external hard disk, don’t be surprised if you encounter many beachballs, making this a very suboptimal experience and by no means representative of Yosemite performance in general.

Make the Destination External Drive / Volume Bootable

First up is making the external disk not a bootable volume, this is done through Disk Utility. The external drive will be formatted for this purpose, meaning it will be completely erased and all data on it will be lost.

1. Launch Disk Utility in OS X, found in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder
2. Attach the external drive to the Mac and select the newly attached drive from the list of volumes in Disk Utility
3. Choose the “Erase” tab and be sure “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)” is selected as the format, give the drive an obvious name like “Yosemite External”, then choose “Erase” to format the volume – this removes all data from the destination drive, be sure you selected the proper volume here there is no turning back
4. Now go to the “Partition” tab and under ‘Partition Layout’ select “1 Partition” (you can choose multiple if you want to dual boot OS X Yosemite on partitions contained on the external drive, that’s your call but not what we’re covering here) and confirm the partition

5. Choose “Options” and select “GUID” then choose “Apply”

You’re now ready to install OS X Yosemite onto the external disk drive, whether it’s a USB hard disk, a flash drive or thumb drive, or whatever else you want to use. Just remember it’s going to be formatted.

Install OS X Yosemite onto the External Disk Drive

Now you’re ready to install OS X Yosemite onto the newly made bootable external disk. We assume you already have the OS X Yosemite downloaded and ready to go, if not you can get it from the Mac App Store through the Mac Dev Center.

1. Launch the OS X Yosemite installer as if you were going to install as usual

2. Agree to the EULA and licensing terms, then choose “Show All Disks” to find the external volumes
3. Select the external volume to install Yosemite onto and choose the “Install” button, enter the admin password when requested and the Mac will automatically reboot to begin the installation process as usual

Installing onto an external drive may take a while, depending on the speed of the destination disk. Speaking of speed, it’s hard to overstate that performance of Yosemite (or OS X, or any other OS for that matter) running off an external volume is often considerably slower than running off an internal volume, and hardly representative of the true native experience of running on an full speed drive. Performance ultimately depends largely on the speed and connection of the external drive being used, but something like an USB 2.0 external drive is undoubtedly much slower than whatever drive is built internally into the Mac. On the other hand, a fast Thunderbolt or USB 3.0 drive may perform quite well for testing purposes.

Enjoy OS X Yosemite on your bootable external drive!

For those wondering, in creating this walkthrough I installed Yosemite and ran it off of a fairly generic ‘fast’ USB thumb drive. While performance is sufficient to get a feel of the general changes and appearance, the overall experience is tremendously slow when compared to running OS X Yosemite directly off of an internal SSD. Thus if you’re actually looking to test OS X 10.10 and certainly if you’re looking to develop for it, do yourself a favor and install it onto a fast drive or a separate partition instead.

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Catch trains, not colds, with anti-germ jacket

Jacket designed to protect commuters from germs and touching unhygienic surfaces.

Too scared to share public transport during the flu season? This jacket might be for you.

"Catch trains, not colds" is the idea behind the Germinator Transit Jacket, an item of clothing custom-made for germaphobe passengers. 

Designed to protect against coughing commuters and germ-infested handrails, the jacket features a high zipped collar made from anti-microbial fabric, and cuffs that extend to cover hands when necessary.

Also useful for commuters, the jacket has a built-in transit pass holder, vents to cool down fast, and a removable hood to protect your head when dozing off against a grimy window pane.

"We noted that people pulling their sleeves down to grab a pole or burying their faces in their scarves when someone around them coughed," said co-creator Nadeem Haidary. 

"These workarounds became inspiration for clothing that helps protect you on public transit."

While the jacket might be stylish, it's not without its skeptics. 


"I cannot understand how the jacket provides any protection against catching cold and flu," Professor Ronald Eccles, director of the Common Cold Centre & Healthcare Clinical Trials at Cardiff University, told HuffPost UK Lifestyle, adding, "It does not cover the nose and eyes, and these are the points of entry for the viruses."

Meanwhile, a study last year revealed that public transport might not be the hotbed for catching flu that many fear. 

The survey of 6,000 people by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found that fewer people fell ill from catching public transport than other modes. However, public transport did make people who were already sick feel worse. 

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Apple Pay or Google Wallet – What’s the Safest Way to Pay?

Apple Pay or Google Wallet – What’s the Safest Way to Pay?

By: Alexandra Gheorghe 

Apple Pay, Apple’s upcoming digital payment platform, is not on the market yet. But rumor has it that it will deliver the most secure environment ever used for in-store transactions. With massive data breaches hitting retailers and eroding trust in credit card payments, we thought we’d take a closer look at the embedded security features this alternative payment system will allegedly bring to the table.

Is Apple Pay a version of Google Wallet?

You could think so. Apple Pay acts as a virtual wallet and, much like Google Wallet, uses NFC technology to pair devices and wirelessly enable mobile payments. Both services allow users to swipe their smart devices near a compatible payment terminal and pay for goods in a matter of seconds. But while Google allows app sharing, file sharing and other phone-to-phone interactions with NFC, Apple has locked the use of NFC on its devices to only work with mobile payments.

Is Apple Pay safer than others?

Apple has introduced an arsenal of weapons to fight off hackers, combining technologies such as NFC, EMV, Touch ID and Secure Element. But the result hasn’t been actually proven safer, because the service has not been released yet. Here’s what they do:

NFC. This technology automatically makes payment processes more secure. Cards are not swiped during the transaction so attackers can’t use techniques such as skimming and memory scraping at the PoS terminal.

Biometric validation is very similar to the tap-to-pay feature already available in Android devices for paying anywhere contactless payments are accepted. In Apple devices, the Touch ID feature unlocks the phone via fingerprint, authorizes iTunes purchases and now works for in-store transactions, allowing users to confirm payments at NFC-enabled payment terminals.

Tokenization. Both Apple and Google, to some extent, assign one-time tokens to each transaction and unique 16-digit device numbers to each credit card number. This way, hackers can’t trace credit card numbers and, if they do, it wouldn’t be of much use outside Apple’s payment system.

Secure Element. The unique device account number is assigned, encrypted and stored on a dedicated chip in the device, named Secure Element, along with a unique cryptogram for each transaction. During the payment process, the one-time string of random numbers created by encryption keys is decrypted by the network and sent to the bank if deemed authentic. The bank decrypts the token again and, if everything checks out, the purchase is approved.

EMV. EMV technology, which is already known, is responsible for encrypting the transaction from end-to-end. EMV is considered more secure than the magnetic strip, developed more than 50 years ago but still very much used in the United States.

What do Apple fans need to know? Things to consider

There are several limitations.

• You need to own the latest iPhone smartphone or smartwatch.
• The service is limited to US citizens.
• Apple says the user’s credit card data will not be stored on Apple servers or merchants’ servers, which is great for privacy, but storing it locally, on the device, might increase the risk of identity theft.
• The NFC chip is strictly limited to the mobile payment platform, as opposed to Google Wallet, which is a cross-platform service.
• Unfortunately, technological impediments have prevented merchants from fully supporting NFC, which is where Google Wallet’s adoption rate encountered serious issues.

 Should you ditch your wallet for Apple Pay?

If you’re a US citizen with the latest iPhone model or an Apple smartwatch, then, yes, you could be very tempted to do so. Apple Pay has the potential of becoming the next big thing, especially since six banks and over 220,000 stores are rooting for it.

Myanmar 2013- Myanmar: What Future?

Myanmar: What Future?

As Myanmar undergoes democratic reform and economic liberalization, what are the opportunities and challenges ahead?

- Furthering political reforms to transition to full democracy - Supporting the rights of minorities and culture of dissent - Building sustainable markets and financial systems

• Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Chairman of the National League for Democracy (NLD); Member of Parliament from Kawhmu Constituency, Myanmar

• U Soe Thane, Union Minister, Office of the President of Myanmar

• Zin Mar Aung, Activist and Co-Founder, Rainfall, Myanmar

Moderated by

• Nik Gowing, Main Presenter, BBC World News, United Kingdom

Moving from a Cash to a Banked Economy

With less than one-fifth of Myanmar's population using formal financial services, how can the country build the foundations of an inclusive and robust financial system?

Dimensions to be addressed:

- Deepening and broadening access to capital and financial services - Addressing risks and fighting corruption

- Providing incentives for low-income bank accounts

• Florencio B. Abad, Secretary of Budget and Management of the Philippines

• Jon Fredrik Baksaas, President and Chief Executive Officer, Telenor Group,

Norway

• Peter Maher, Group Country Manager, Southeast Asia, Visa, Singapore

• Teeranun Srihong, Co-President, Kasikornbank Public Company, Thailand

• U Win Shein, Union Minister of Finance and Revenue of Myanmar

Moderated by

• Jaspal S. Bindra, Group Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Asia,

Standard Chartered, Hong Kong SAR

Rapporteur

• Thura Ko, Managing Director, YGA Capital Limited, Myanmar; Young Global

Leader

Powering Growth through Strategic Infrastructure

What innovations and actions are needed to maintain robust economic growth and fulfil East Asia's growth potential?

Dimensions to be addressed:

- Financing infrastructure for greatest impact - Leveraging 2015 ASEAN energy integration - Determining the optimal energy mix

- Building public-private partnerships

This session was developed in partnership with the Deutsche Welle TV.

• Stephen P. Groff, Vice-President, Operations 2, Asian Development Bank, Manila; Global Agenda Council on South-East Asia

• John Rice, Vice-Chairman, GE, Hong Kong SAR; Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum on East Asia

• Shahril Shamsuddin, President and Group Chief Executive Officer, SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad, Malaysia

• Hamish Tyrwhitt, Chief Executive Officer, Leighton Holdings, Australia

• Gita Wirjawan, Minister of Trade of Indonesia

Moderated by

• Amrita Cheema, Anchor, Deutsche Welle TV, Germany

From Social Protection to Financial Inclusion

How can East Asian economies implement a sustainable social protection system, given such diverse challenges as an ageing population and seasonal unemployment?

Dimensions to be addressed:

- Building effective distribution channels

- Integrating growth, employment and social protection - Addressing social and gender inequities

• Jeroo Billimoria, Managing Director, Child and Youth Finance International, Netherlands; Social Entrepreneur

• Matthew Driver, President, South-East Asia, MasterCard Worldwide, Singapore

• Keat Chhon, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance of

Cambodia

• Thomas Klotz, Managing Partner, South-East Asia, Roland Berger Strategy

Consultants, Singapore

• Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on

Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva

Moderated by

• Donald P. Kanak, Chairman, Prudential Corporation Asia, Hong Kong SAR;

Global Agenda Council on Social Security Systems

Chasing the Next Big Idea

As the world looks to East Asia for resilient growth and new models of regional integration, what lessons of leadership and innovation are coming out of the region?

Dimensions to be addressed:

- Investing in smart infrastructure of the future

- Moving beyond low-cost manufacturing and up the value chain

- Prioritizing goals of social equity in the development agenda

- Achieving macroeconomic stability and responding to global financial shocks

• Fazle Hasan Abed, Founder and Chairperson, BRAC, Bangladesh; Social Entrepreneur; Global Agenda Council on the Role of Civil Society

• Tony Blair, Middle East Quartet Representative

• Do Hang, General Manager, iVIVU.com, Vietnam

• Haider Rashid, Regional President, South Asia, ABB, Singapore

• April Rinne, Chief Strategy Officer, Collaborative Lab, USA; Young Global Leader

• Heizo Takenaka, Director, Global Security Research Institute, Keio University,

Japan; World Economic Forum Foundation Board Member; Global Agenda Council on Japan

Moderated by

• Gary Coleman, Managing Director, Global Industries, Deloitte, USA

Taking Myanmar to Work

As Myanmar opens up to new business and investment, what steps are needed to

match the demand for skilled workers and foster innovation?

Dimensions to be addressed:

- Engaging with interactive technology and online education

- Promoting multiple tracks of success through vocational courses - Creating strong incentives for on-the-job training

• Hiroto Arakawa, Vice-President, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Japan; Global Agenda Council on Poverty & Sustainable Development

• Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Chairman of the National League for Democracy (NLD); Member of Parliament from Kawhmu Constituency, Myanmar

• Annie Koh, Vice-President, Business Development and External Relations; Associate Professor of Finance, Singapore Management University, Singapore

• Subramanian Ramadorai, Vice-Chairman, Tata Consultancy Services, India; Co- Chair of the World Economic Forum on East Asia

• Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala II, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Ayala Corporation, Philippines

Moderated by

• Aiko Doden, Senior Commentator, NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation),

Japan

The Triple Bottom Line: Investing for Impact

How can governments and investors meet the triple bottom line: economic, environment and social?

Dimensions to be addressed:
- Channelling large-scale investments in novel ways
- Designing a favourable regulatory environment for investor protection - Avoiding hot money and managing capital flows

• Kriss Deiglmeier, Executive Director, Center for Social Innovation, Stanford University, USA
• Don Lam, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, VinaCapital Group, Vietnam; Global Agenda Council on South-East Asia
• Andi Taufan Garuda Putra, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Amartha Microfinance, Indonesia
• Omar Lodhi, Partner, The Abraaj Group, Singapore
• Keely Stevenson, Chief Executive Officer, Bamboo Finance, USA; Young Global
Leader

Moderated by
• Hannah Beech, East Asia Correspondent, Time Magazine, People's Republic of
China

The Business Mandate in Myanmar

How can businesses balance shareholder and stakeholder interests to partner in Myanmar's growth agenda?

Dimensions to be addressed:
- Exploring the role of anti-corruption and transparency in promoting competitiveness, growth and public trust
- Implementing business practices to reward a long-term mindset
- Empowering the bottom of the pyramid by scaling indigenous solutions

• Ajit Gulabchand, Chairman and Managing Director, Hindustan Construction Company, India
• Serge Pun, Chairman, Serge Pun & Associates (Myanmar), Myanmar
• Eddy Setiawan, President, South-East Asia, The Dow Chemical Company,
Singapore
• Salil Shetty, Secretary-General, Amnesty International, United Kingdom;
Global Agenda Council on the Role of Civil Society
• Sir Martin Sorrell, Chief Executive Officer, WPP, United Kingdom

Moderated by
• Andrew Stevens, Anchor and Correspondent, CNN International, Hong Kong
SAR

Pursuing the Asian Century

How can ASEAN use its rising economic and geopolitical stature to ensure regional stability and consistent economic growth?

Dimensions to be addressed:
- Increasing engagement with the United States and India
- Enhancing China's role as economic partner and strategic competitor - Competing for natural resources and resolving territorial disputes

• Kishore Mahbubani, Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Global Agenda Council on China
• Yasutoshi Nishimura, Senior Vice-Minister of Cabinet Office of Japan
• Naoyuki Shinohara, Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
(IMF), Washington DC; Global Agenda Council on New Growth Models
• U Thant Kyaw, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Myanmar
• Zha Daojiong, Professor, School of International Studies, Peking University,
People's Republic of China
Moderated by
• Parag Khanna, Senior Fellow, New America Foundation, United Kingdom; Young
Global Leader

Mapping Risks An East Asia Context

How can the top risks in East Asia be addressed?

Dimensions to be addressed:
- Identifying top risks challenging Asia and their interconnections
- Evaluating the impact of risks on business, governments and society - Building risk resilience through a multistakeholder approach

Discussion Leaders

• Richard A. Boucher, Deputy Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-
operation and Development (OECD), Paris
• Ashvin Dayal, Managing Director, Asia, Rockefeller Foundation, Thailand
• Christopher Fossick, Managing Director, Singapore and South-East Asia, Jones
Lang LaSalle, Singapore
• Rashid Khalikov, Director, United Nations Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Geneva
• Martyn Parker, Chairman, Global Partnerships, Swiss Re, United Kingdom
• Lutfey Siddiqi, Managing Director, Foreign Exchange Asia-Pacific, UBS,
Singapore; Young Global Leader

Facilitated by
• Nik Gowing, Main Presenter, BBC World News, United Kingdom

The Long term View

As Myanmar undergoes rapid political and economic reforms, how can it balance the inflow of foreign interests with domestic capacity-building?

Dimensions to be addressed:
- Strengthening governance institutions and civil society - Enabling an environment for entrepreneurship
- Improving employability of workforce
- Prioritizing the environment and sustainable practices

• Michael Andrew, Global Chairman, KPMG International, Hong Kong SAR
• Helen E. Clark, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),
New York; Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum on East Asia
• Indra Nooyi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo, USA; Co-Chair of
the World Economic Forum on East Asia; World Economic Forum Foundation
Board Member
• Serge Pun, Chairman, Serge Pun & Associates (Myanmar), Myanmar
• Anand Sharma, Minister of Commerce and Industry and Textiles of India

Moderated by
• Martin Soong, Anchor, CNBC, Singapore


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