Atlanta’s teenagers will be able to participate by the end of August in the Audi Driving Experience, an acclaimed teen safety program developed in Europe, Chris Sperry, marketing director...
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South India States Vie Aggressively for U.S. Business Ties
Four states in southern India are among those most aggressively seeking alliances for their home-based companies with U.S. firms, N. Srinivasan, deputy general of the Confederation of Indian Industry...
Commerce Department To Aid State Service Firms to Export
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Office of Domestic Operations has a new deputy assistant secretary, Bruce Blakeman, who is ready to assist Georgia companies, especially in rural areas and...
Atlanta Firm Seeks To Place Six IT Ukraine Professionals
Atlanta-based International Talent Bank LLC (ITB) is bringing six Ukrainian information technology (IT) professionals here Aug. 28 to interview for IT positions in metro-area firms. ITB was formed...
Emory Students To Design Int’l Signs in Atlanta
Emory University’s Goizueta Business School students will design a plan for the Atlanta City Council to install international signage throughout the city. The project, initiated by Councilman Jim...
Belgium Assumes EU Presidency; Should Help Country’s Trade
The consul general of Belgium, Hervé Goyens, foresees opportunities for business ties between his country and Georgia during the next six months while Belgium holds the presidency of the...
Cable-TV Here to Air Weekly Latino Program
Atlanta’s first Latino-owned and produced cable television program, Que Buena Tele, was scheduled to launch on Sunday, July 29, and is expected to air every Sunday on Channel 33...
Georgia Relations with Chile Strengthened by GDITT Business Mission
Atlanta has placed its bid to be the host city for the next negotiating round of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) meetings between Chile and the U.S.,...
Atlanta Tie with Israel City Formalized
Zeev Bielski, the mayor of Atlanta’s newest sister city, Ra’anana, Israel, was on hand last week at the Sister Cities International annual conference, held at the Hyatt Regency downtown, to...
Reaction Mixed Here On President’s Waiving Helms-Burton
President Bush’s waiver of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act last week was met with a variety of reactions from foreign-born Atlantans with interest in Cuba. Those hoping...
