The Georgia Council for International Visitors (GCIV), which belongs to a network of 100 non-profit volunteer organizations in the U-S, that support the international visitor program of the U.S. lnformation...
Category: Business
Hong Kong Official Says Economy Will Remain Open
The Hong Kong Association of Atlanta's first formal event featured a luncheon address Wednesday, May 3, by the Honorable Barrie Wiggham, Hong Kong commissioner to the U.S., and a donation...
New International Magazine to Be Launched in July
The Economos quarterly magazine, started four years ago to promote the Southeast U.S. globally as an attractive region for foreign investment, will be replaced this summer by a new publication...
Europe No. 1 Roswell Business Alleges Extortion by Vietnamese Officials
A Roswell businessman returned home last week and said he was detained in Ho Chi Minh City for 10 days by Vietnamese authorities because of a commercial dispute involving a...
Europe Number One Investors in Georgia
European companies are the number one international investors in Georgia, with 58% of the $19.1 billion invested in the Georgia economy from around the world — or $11.1 billion —...
Canadians Blast Helms Cuba Bill
Canadian officials are fighting to remove provisions in a bill currently before the U.S. Congress which would attempt to restrict trade between third countries and Cuba, said Raymond ChrÈtien, the...
BellSouth Finds Something Sweet In Denmark
The remote town of Aalborg located in an economically depressed area of northern Denmark was the unlikely site for BellSouth International to establish in 1991 a head office for Sonofon,...
Arab American Leader to Help Metro Firm Expand Abroad
Hisham Araim, chief executive officer of Universal Investments and Manufacturing Co., has been appointed to the board of directors of Mountasia Entertainment International, an Alpharetta-based leader in the family entertainment...
Atlanta Companies Exhibit in Panama
Atlanta Industrial Equipment Inc., a pharmaceutical and food industry equipment supplier, and the Norcross office of Mitsuba Southeast Inc., a California-based computer and computer peripherals company, attended as exhibitors Panama...
IBA Networking with Other International Associations
Continuing with its policy of meeting with other business groups, the International Business Association will hold a gathering with the Indian Professional Network on Thursday, May 11, beginning at 6:30...
