The following Regional Project should include the following:

The student is required to research a white paper empirical format (collection of data) on the region of ASIA, excluding all the Middle Eastern Countries. It should include the following:

1. Cover sheet, regional project, student name, Title, professor, date.

2. Certification of Authorship Assignment Cover Page

3. Table of Contents

4. Regional Background, no more than (5) pages.

a. Geographical location, map, identify all the countries in the region, population, main languages spoken, religion, cultural and traditional issues.

b. Political and major legal system of the region, property rights, political rights, operational issues for the region.

c. Economic issues for the region, inflation rate, exchange rates, workforce, unemployment rate, education and literacy rate, types of economic system, GNP.

d. Major trades, governmental influences in trade, regional trading blocs, industries protected by government.

e. Industries of the region, tourism, manufacturing, service, etc.

f. Trend for the region, political, economical, etc. Identify countries leading the region.

g. Significant of the area, Example: tallest building, deepest sea, largest manufacturing, etc.

5. You must also identify (5) Multinational Companies (MNC) based in the region and briefly introduce each MNC, background, products, workforce, success and failures, financials, company’s future. This section should be limited to no more than (5) pages, one page per country.

6. Identify one MNC based from the region and do a comprehensive analysis of the company. Research thoroughly with respect to their products, Management Functions, Strategic direction, Social Responsibilities, cross Cultural Issues within the MNC, Alliances, financial Human Resources, workforce, SWOT analysis and recommendation. This section should be limited to no more than (10) pages. The entire project should not exceed (20 pages).