World Hindu forum to hold second meeting in Bangkok in August
The World Hindu Economic Forum will convene its second global meeting in Bangkok this August.
"The mission of WHEF is to restore prosperity to the Hindu world, which represents onesixth of humanity, thereby contributing to global prosperity and peace," Gautam Sen, a member of the organising committee and a keynote speaker at the event, said Wednesday.
Sen, a retired lecturer at the London School of Economics and Politics, said at least 500 Hindu businessmen from 30 countries were expected to join the second global meeting of the WHEF from August 1113, after its inaugural conference in Hong Kong last year.
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