Barbara Njau talks to Pushpanathan Sundram, deputy secretary-general for the Association of South-east Asian Nations economic community, ahead of a November summit which focused upon the region’s strategy of promoting itself as a top investment destination while ensuring greater regional integration.

India is passing through the best of times and the worst of times, as a positive approach to foreign investments is gaining momentum across the country at the expense of a lack of attention given to domestic investment.

Roopa Kudva, CEO and managing director of Indian rating agency and analytical company Crisil, has overseen the company's impressive international expansion of recent years, and has introduced some unconventional – and effective – methods along the way.

Singapore has retained its position at the top of fDi's Asia-Pacific Cities of the Future ranking, ahead of Shanghai and Seoul. Chinese cities performed particularly well, but the effects of recession and natural disaster have seen Tokyo fall from second place to ninth. Rachel Craigreports.

With predictions of Thailand's economic growth slashed as a result of  this years floods, the country's Board of Investment has introduced a series of measures to aid companies as they try and recover from the crisis.

India’s political scene is in turmoil following a cabinet decision to relax the country’s foreign ownership rules.