Author Archives: Phil Bolton

A Globalfax survey of the city’s major law firms found none are rushing to establish practices in the People’s Republic of China, even though its government decided last year to...

Conway Data Inc., an information, market research, publishing and association management company based in Norcross, Ga. has launched a fax-on-demand service providing extensive information on a wide variety of geo-economic...

Dr. Ax Wu, an international development consultant based in Atlanta and advisor to the University of Georgia (UGA)’s business school, expects that the U.S. embargo to trade with Vietnam,  will...

A new “green card” lottery benefiting 55,000 immigrants will be held this spring, most likely in May, and most countries will be included, according to Robert Banta, partner in charge...

Teodoro Maus, Mexico’s Consul General in Atlanta, has been assigned new responsibilities at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Director General for the Program of Mexican Communities Outside of Mexico....

Since his visit to Taiwan in August last year, Ray Kemper, manager of International Development at the DeKalb Chamber of Commerce, has been seeking ways to encourage local companies to...

The 21st century will be known as the “Asian Century,” according to Dr. Jeffrey Rosensweig, finance and international business professor at Emory Business School. He told some 200 attendees of...

Anatoly A. Sobchak’s whirlwind tour of Atlanta this week resulted in an agreement with the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau (ACVB) to create a similar bureau in St. Petersburg and...

AT&T, which signed on this week as the most recent sponsor of the 1996 Olympic Games to be held in Atlanta, will encourage its employees to open their homes to...

The International Cooperation Council (ICC)’s first mission this year will be to the Sophia-Antipolis Science and Technology Park in Nice, France Feb. 21-24.  A joint U.S.-French ICC delegation is scheduled...