Six of 10 companies that received “Top 10 Asian American Business Awards” from the U.S. Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce, Southeast chapter, are based in Georgia.

The awards were presented on Nov. 14 during the chamber’s annual gala that was attended by 300 guests at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in downtown Atlanta, including Sudjadnan Pamohadiningrat, Indonesia’s ambassador to the United States.

This Pan Asian American gala took place under a joint-hosting partnership with the Indonesian-American Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Pamohadiningrat attended the Indonesian-American chamber's gala last year, and during both events gave an address and then entertained the guests by playing his saxophone.

The Indonesian chamber has been the first to partner with the Pan Asian chamber. According to Fify Manan, gala committee chair, the Pan Asian chamber seeks to partner on the event with different local ethnic chambers in coming years.

The U.S. Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1984 to support the communal interests of Asian Americans and related groups. Susan Au Allen, the chamber’s president and CEO, came to Atlanta from Washington to speak at the event.

In his address, Mr. Pamohadiningrat spoke of the bonds tying the U.S. and Indonesia together. With a population of 230 million, he said Indonesia was the third largest democracy in the world trailing only India and the U.S.

“As a country with the largest Moslem population, Indonesians are also proud to showcase that Islam and democracy are compatible to one another,” he added.

The Georgia companies honored with business awards were Suwanee-based Global Resource Management Inc., a procurement and contract management firm with its worldwide headquarters in Hyderabad, India; 3i People Inc., an information technology firm in Atlanta; AccuSentry Inc., an inspection and product intelligence firm in Marietta; Neocom Solutions Inc., Woodstock-based telecommunications firm;

Onyx Infosoft Inc., Suwanee-based information search and retrieval firm and Sun Technologies Inc., a Duluth-based consulting firm for information technology companies.

Meridian Technologies Inc., a data management firm in Jacksonville, Fla.; McLean, Va.-based Primus Software Corp., an information technology firm providing consulting and staffing services; Tran Construction Inc., a construction firm in Miami and Trilogy Communnications Ltd., a communications firm in Hallandale Beach, Fla., also were honored.

To learn more about the U.S. Pan Asian American chamber’s Southeast chapter, go to www.uspaacc-se.com

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