Atlanta’s ninth Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival will be held at Lake Lanier on Saturday, Sept. 11, with eight new boats that were made in China as part of a...
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BellSouth Offering Discounts for International Long Distance
BellSouth Corp. small business customers that sign up before Thursday, Sept. 30, for its international discount promotion will receive reduced overseas long distance rates for three months, the company announced...
Networking Sessions for Minority-Owned Businesses Planned
The U.S. Commerce Department’s Minority Business Development Agency has announced that networking sessions for minority-owned businesses interested in expanding internationally will be held quarterly. Joann J. Hill, the agency’s international...
Chinese Learn about High Voltage Switches from Atlanta Company
Chinese businessmen from Xi'an XD High Voltage Apparatus Co. Ltd. recently visited Southern States LLC in metro Atlanta to better understand the manufacturing process of North America's largest high voltage...
Decision on FTAA Secretariat Expected Late Next Year
A decision on the location for the secretariat of the Free Trade Area of the Americas is not likely to be reached before late 2005, said Atlanta's Argentine Consul General...
Atlanta to Give Sister City Gift to Toulouse
Approximately 500 yards from one impressive work of art, the Cyclorama, another takes shape. David Landis, a local Atlanta sculptor has spent the last four months in his workshop located...
Nepalese Association Annual Convention in Marietta Sept. 4-6
Nepalese Association in Southeast America will hold its annual convention on Labor Day weekend, Sept. 4-6, at the Holiday Inn at 2265 Kingston Court in Marietta. The event provides an...
Georgia Expects Nissan’s Move Here to Benefit the Japanese Company
Nissan North America Inc.'s relocation of its Southeast regional headquarters from Jacksonville, Fla., to Atlanta presents an opportunity for Georgia to further develop its business ties to the U.S. subsidiary...
Ghana Expo 2004 to Be Held in Atlanta Sept. 23-26
Ghana trade officials have selected 500 African companies to participate in Ghana Expo 2004, a trade and investment event featuring Ghana President John Kufuor and U.S. talk show host Ophra...
Marietta Base Seen as Site of Second Atlanta Airport
George Berry, a former state commissioner and former aviation commissioner for the city of Atlanta, told the Kiwanis Club of Atlanta last week that Dobbins Air Reserve Base would be...
