Editor's note: To read more on how Georgia's Japanese community reacted to the earthquake and tsunami, visit www.globalatlanta.com/japanreport. In 24 years hosting JapanFest in Atlanta, organizers only once considered canceling...
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Society Raises $250,000 for Japan Relief
This story is part of GlobalAtlanta's exclusive Japan special issue. Click here to read more. Less than two months after an earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan, the main organization promoting...
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Chinese Governor Blown Away by ‘Gone With the Wind’
Zhou Qiang, the governor and Communist Party chief of central China's Hunan province, had less than a day to spend in Atlanta in February. Some of that time was tied...
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UGA Honors Journalists for Courage in North Korean Ordeal
The University of Georgia presented Euna Lee and Laura Ling, two reporters taken captive by North Korea during a reporting trip, with an award for journalistic courage on April 20....
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Latin American Association Holds Awards Luncheon
There was no disguising the antipathy that the 400 attendees of the Latin American Association’s 22nd Annual Companeros Awards Luncheon held for the immigration reform legislation recently passed by the...
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Southeast Succumbs to Royal Wedding Fever
As vice consul at the British Consulate General in Atlanta, Amanda Trice has been busy these days preparing for the Royal Wedding reception to be held the evening of April...
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Gwinnett Exhibit Showcases International Homes
What do a Mongolian ger, a Malaysian stilt house and a hut from Fiji have in common? Structurally? Not much. The traditional dwellings were designed by distinct peoples facing very different environmental challenges. But they...
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Aflac’s New Japan Liaison Confronts Crisis
This story is part of GlobalAtlanta's exclusive Japan special issue. Click here to read more. Less than 24 hours after the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami rattled Japan and flooded its northeastern coast, Aflac Inc.'s chief...
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Portman Architecture Exhibit Headed to Beijing
An art exhibition featuring Atlanta architect, developer and artist John Portman will travel to the Capital Museum in Beijing, the second city to showcase his works in China. "John Portman: Art and Architecture" originated at Atlanta's High...
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Ghanaian Mayor Announces Black Arts Festival
The mayor of Kumasi, a commercial center in northern Ghana, visited Atlanta to drum up support for an upcoming black arts festival in his city. During a brief visit, Samuel Sarpong announced the Kumasi International Black...