The GuideStar India website now features a list of charitable organizations that have joined the organization recently. According to a GuideStart India blog post on this new list:

“49 NGOs voluntarily chose to demonstrate their commitment to transparency and public accountability by joining GuideStar India in August 2013! In a country of a more than a million NGOs (the estimated number of operational NGOs in India is only about a third of the much publicized 3.3 million which is the total of NGOs registered since the year 1860) where the credibility of the voluntary sector is always questioned, we feel encouraged every time an NGO takes the step to voluntarily put its information in the public domain.”

 The World Property Channel reported at the end of August that a new law in India forbids citizens from transferring funds out of the country to purchase real estate in other countries.

The interview program Thoughtful China recently aired a program called, “What Marketers Get Wrong About China” (above). This show includes some helpful tips for anyone fundraising in China, too.

A recent post on China First Capital’s China Private Equity blog discussed State Owned Enterprises.

Russell Flannery previewed Forbes magazine’s soon-to-be-released 2013 China Rich List.

Yandex, the Russian search engine, just added 14 new languages — many from eastern European countries, where Yandex is growing in popularity — to its automated translation service. The newly-covered languages are: Albanian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Estonian, Finnish,  Greek, Hungarian Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Slovak, and Slovenian.

Researchers at Stanford University launched Kindred Britain, an online social network visualization project covering “a network of nearly 30,000 individuals — many of them iconic figures in British culture — connected through family relationships of blood, marriage, or affiliation. It is a vision of the nation’s history as a giant family affair.”

 

The image accompanying this post is “Street in Malabar Hill, Mumbai,” by Subbu Arumugam