Former GlobalAtlanta Editorial Director Leigh Miller Villegas has been teaching a journalism course at a private university in Montevideo, Uruguay. Her students, undergraduates in the Communications School of the University...
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Water Ruling Won’t Hurt Business Recruitment, Leaders Say
Three of Georgia's top economic development leaders insisted Tuesday that metro Atlanta’s efforts to recruit new businesses won’t be hurt by a federal judge’s recent ruling that could severely cut...
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More than 100 Chinese Companies Coming Through Atlanta
After more than three years of building ties with Atlanta, a firm from China's Hubei province that helps other Chinese companies penetrate overseas markets announced July 28 that it will...
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Chinese Hospital to Include Georgia Touches
Officials planning a large hospital in the Chinese city of Ganzhou will incorporate design tips they've received from a regional health-care system in coastal Georgia. A Brunswick, Ga., delegation including...
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Coke Promotes Four Execs
Coca-Cola Co. has a new executive vice president, senior vice president, controller and chief of internal audit. The board of directors named Joseph Tripodi an executive vice president. He is the...
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Indian Chamber Sees Itself as Growth Catalyst
Ritesh Desai, president of the Georgia Indo-American Chamber of Commerce, stood in front of the Hindu temple in Gwinnett County and marveled at the structure made of limestone, marble and sandstone that was...
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Courting China: A Metro Atlanta Chamber Perspective
It wasn't long after Jorge Fernandez started working at the Metro Atlanta Chamber that he got his first China-related assignment. Mr. Fernandez became the vice president over the chamber's Global...
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Georgia Ag Department Scores Sales Abroad
The Georgia Department of Agriculture in recent weeks has hosted delegations of food buyers from South Korea and India, lining up $1.6 million in projected sales of Georgia products ranging...
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Chinese Airport Could Partner With Hartsfield-Jackson
A regional airport in a central Chinese provincial capital is looking to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport for advice on how to manage future expansion projects. Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport in...
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A Breakthrough for U.S. Soccer Fuels Hope in Atlanta
A U.S.-born player, Oguchi Onyewu, took the practice field at the Georgia Dome on Tuesday with one of Europe’s premier soccer teams, A.C. Milan of Italy. Mr. Onyewu’s new teammates...