A bi-national business group recently launched a Southeast branch in Atlanta to promote trade and investment between the region and the Central American nation of Panama. The new chapter, an...
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Posted inArchive, Economic Development
Northern Ireland Film Bureau Brings Star Power to Belfast
When “City of Ember” hits movie screens in Atlanta and around the U.S. in October, it will be the most recent product of Belfast, Northern Ireland’s growing film industry to...
Posted inArchive, Culture
Martinique Heats Up Bastille Day Celebration in Atlanta
The Bastille Day celebration in Atlanta drew some 530 Francophiles who danced the night away to Martinican rhythms and lamented the absence of a nonstop flight from Georgia’s capital to...
Posted inArchive, Business
Financial Crisis Likely to Worsen, Result in Greater Mortgage Regulation
Two days before the federal government announced plans to support two faltering financial companies, the keynote speaker at Emory University’s July 10-11 globalization conference said that the U.S. financial system...
Posted inArchive, Business
Report to Call for Revamped Unemployment Programs
A white paper report to be issued this week by a group of U.S. and European financial company CEOs will support revamping the U.S.’s programs for supporting workers who lose...
Posted inArchive, Business
Atlanta Ranked 19th Metro Area Exporter in U.S.
Metro Atlanta is the U.S.’s 19th-largest metropolitan export market by sales in the first half of 2007, according to new data released by the Commerce Department. Statistics from the department’s...
Posted inArchive, Business
Georgians Shouldn’t Fear Free Trade With Latin American Allies
Despite election-year political attacks and a pervasive national unease about globalization, Georgians shouldn’t fear pending free trade agreements with U.S. allies in Latin America, a State Department official said in...
Posted inArchive, Business
Georgia Approves Land Deal for S.C. Joint Port
The Georgia Ports Authority approved a measure July 14 to acquire 1,518 acres of land on the Savannah River for the development of an ocean container port jointly owned and...
Posted inArchive, Business
Lithonia Business Network Organizes Tanzania Trade Mission
The Lithonia office of AFRICARIBE Micro Enterprise Network Inc. is organizing a six-day trade mission to Tanzania Aug. 31-Sept. 6. Emmenette Mason, the network’s director for the Southeast, told GlobalAtlanta...
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Volkswagen’s Chattanooga Plant Could Bring Jobs to North Georgia
Wolfsburg, Germany-based automotive manufacturer Volkswagen AG has selected Chattanooga, Tenn., to build its next U.S. assembly plant, providing job growth that could spill over into nearby north Georgia. About 2,000...