Category: Americas

          Ahmed Tinubu, the governor of Lagos state in Nigeria, who has been compared to former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, will be in Atlanta Aug. 15-16 for a reunion...

Gov. Sonny Perdue signed two executive orders last week creating the Latino Commission for a New Georgia and the Asian-American Commission for a New Georgia to serve as advisory bodies...

Atlanta was one of nine U.S. and Canadian cities selected to recruit business people to attend Rugby World Cup 2003 in Australia from Oct. 10-Nov. 22, David Nucifora, ambassador for...

An Atlanta company is to begin exploration of five Caribbean shipwrecks in early 2004, following a recently completed agreement with the government of Jamaica.             The vessels, British and Spanish...

Sister City relationships between Atlanta and Galway and Limerick in western Ireland will be in place by the end of the year, according to Jim Gaffey, chairman of the Ireland...

   Hong Kong’s Washington-based commissioner to the United States, Jacqueline Willis, visited Atlanta earlier this month “to establish a long-term closer collaboration” with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,...

Representatives from Hemisphere Inc., the organization responsible for bringing the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) secretariat to Atlanta, will meet for a second time on July 27-Aug.1 with...

Sandra Edwards, the Savannah U.S. Export Assistance Center's newly-appointed director, said the development of seminars to help the state's agriculture firms export overseas is high on her list of new...

            In an effort to sidestep the official publicity about Atlanta’s qualifications as the site for the Free Trade Area of the Americas’ secretariat, El Salvador’s vice president, Carlos Quintanilla...

            Former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres’ visit to Atlanta in May has sparked a collaboration between Israeli and Georgia scientists on cutting edge research in the emerging field of...