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Following on from the resounding success of the Securing Asia 2012 Homeland Security and Counter Terror Summit, Security Watch UK is pleased to announce the dates for next year’s conference.


Securing Asia 2013

Venue: QEII Conference Centre, London

Dates: 18th - 19th June, 2013

This year’s summit featured record breaking attendances by foreign delegations from across Asia, including representatives...

MP Jo Johnson closed the 3-day Counter Terror and Homeland Security Summit, Securing Asia 2012, on Friday, addressing the vital issue of British business opportunities and interests in the Asian homeland security market. Speaking of the need to address the trade deficit, he cited the importance of improving the export competitiveness of UK firms, by getting them to turn and face more resolutely towards the...

Dr Mukul Sangma, Chief Minister of Meghalaya, India, on the terrorist threats facing India




Dr Mukul Sangma, Chief Minister of Meghalaya, India, spoke in depth about the types of terrorist threats facing India, and the challenges to peace and development in the region thus created. This goes hand in hand with the adjacent problems from drug trafficking within the ‘Golden Crescent’ and ‘Golden...

By Maroof Raza




Global spending on Homeland Security now stands at about $200 billion annually. But with budgets in Asia now set to increase by 30-percent in its trillion-dollar-plus market, where China, India, Japan and Saudi Arabia are closely followed by the South East Asia tigers, the message is clear: Asia is already almost as big a market as the United States, which accounts for one-third...