This inspirational book combines invaluable advice with remarkable and candid inside stories of thirty Indian business leaders. Uncompromising vision, a willingness to take risks and exceptional business acumen enabled these leaders to add value to the business fabric of India.

Through a series of interviews Peter Church details the paths they travelled, the obstacles they overcame and the important lessons they learnt along the way. Not only do these stories provide guidance to young entrepreneurs trying to decide whether and how to embark upon a business career, but they also provide valuable insights to those looking for tie-ups and investment in India.

Enlightening and fascinating, Added Value celebrates larger-than-life ambition, inspired leadership, hard work and the twists and turns of fate.

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The first edition of "Focus on Southeast Asia" was published in 1997 and the second edition, which was renamed "A Short History of South East Asia", was published in 1999. With so much change taking place in South East Asia over the last few years we recently decided to update the book and a fifth edition was published by John Wiley and Sons (www.wiley.com) in 2009. The cover set out is of the fifth edition.

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Copies of the fifth edition are available for purchase in bookshops and through the Amazon website (www.amazon.com).

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This uplifting book provides hope and guidance for businessmen and women of all ages as well as for those about to embark on a business or professional career. It details face-to-face interviews the life stories of leading businessmen and womenh throughtout the ten countries of South East Asia (ASEAN) and their own secrets of success.

It is not a book about the rich and famous, although many of those interviewed are both, Rather, it is about the paths they have followed during their lives adding value to their business and professional sectors and, in many cases, to their nations.

Many have been badly hurt by the current economic crisis but their life stories show that many have faced adversity before. Indeed, many started on their paths to success at earlier times of economic and polical disarray and after the Great Depression, the Second World War and the fall of national leaders such as President Sukarno of Indonesia.

This book showcases the best Australia has to offer by marketing the competitive advantages of Australian education in Australia and through international campuses.

With some of the world's leading universities, outstanding colleges and schools, Australia currently attracts more than 315,000 international students to its shores and another 100,000 to its transnational courses.

High academic standards and world-class facilities combined with freedom, challenge, competitive costs and a stimulating, multicultural environment are among the drawcards.

The considerable international contribution made by this country's graduates, including Nobel Prize winners, confirms that Australian education is a passport to a global career.

The Thai Business and Legal Guide has been prepared and published by Asean Focus Group's affiliate, Bangkok International Associates, under the supervision of the firm's co-founder and senior partner, Ron Cristal (Ronachai Krisadaolarn) and Stephen Frost. The Guide was last updated in January 2008. The Guide provides general advice and no responsibility is accepted for errors or omissions, nor should reliance be made nor action taken on the basis of any information set out in this Guide without receiving up to date Thai legal advice such as that available from Bangkok International Associates (http://www.bia.co.th).

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Mr. Rawdon Dalrymple A.O. is the Chairman of the Advisory Board of Asean Focus Group. He is a graduate of the University of Sydney and was Rhodes Scholar from NSW in 1952. During Rawdon Dalrymple’s career in the Department of External Affairs (now Foreign Affairs and Trade) he was involved at one time or another in all aspects of Australia's foreign interests and policy areas. He was one of the architects of the Asian Development Bank and served on its Board, spent a total of seven years in Indonesia and was Australia's Ambassador there from 1981 to 1985. He was subsequently ambassador to The United States of America and then to Japan. To learn more about Rawdon Dalrymple please visit his site on Government and International Relations, University of Sydney web site (http://www.econ.usyd.edu.au/content.php?pageid=1076)

Original, insightful and well-organized, Rawdon Dalrymple studies Australia's sense of vulnerability and attachment to distant protectors which has coexisted with tendencies of both assertiveness and complacency. Penetrating and authoritative the book examines the cautious development of Australian relations with East Asia during the 1980s and 1990s, with detailed coverage of the background to the Australian effort and critical analysis of where Australian forays into the politics of the region leave its standing in East Asia and the world today.

Contents
Introduction; Living with vulnerability - from the beginning to 1983; Approaching an independent Australian foreign and defence policy; The persistence and decline of dependence; Promoting Australia's Asian future; Commitments and hesitations; Development, values, solidarity and fault lines; Australian efforts to qualify; Dealing with Indonesia; East Timor and the watershed in policy; Opportunities and constraints; Bibliography; Index.

Reviews
'Rawdon Dalrymple offers a very perceptive and well founded analysis of Australia's policies towards East Asia over the past twenty years. Having served as Australian ambassador to Japan, the United States and Indonesia over twelve years he is extremely well informed on his subject. He offers trenchant and sometimes discomforting views on the consequences of Australian foreign policy for Australia's relationship with East Asia in particular. He lets the reader in on many of Canberra's secrets as to who did what and why. Well written, the book is hard to put down before the last page is reached.' Professor Robert O'Neill, University of Oxford, UK

'Dalrymple addresses Australia's biggest Foreign Policy issue authoritatively and with profound insight. The story of a hundred years of ignoring and attempting to reconcile the tension between this country's history and geography leads into the great challenges ahead. A splendid book in the best tradition of the top diplomat as reflective author.'
Professor Ross Garnaut , Australian National University, Australia

'A joy to read...The author's insights are penetrating...This book is destined to be a CLASSIC. It really is a piece of first-rate scholarship and writing.'
Dennis Rumley, Associate Professor, University of Western Australia, Australia