Officials look to attract foreign students (Portsmouth Herald)
WELLS, Maine ? Organized by the Maine International Trade Center and led by Gov. John Baldacci, York County Community College recently joined the Maine Economic and Community Development Commissioner John Richardson, Maine Agriculture Deputy... ...more...Bonita Bay Group's Web sites honored (The News-Press)
Three of Bonita Bay Group's Web sites have won the 2007 W3 Awards from the International Academy of Visual Arts....more... Griffith series, Part 3: Marketing helps boost local economy (The Lompoc Record)
Editor?s note: This is the final of three columns about the state of economic development in Lompoc, which has come under recent criticism....more... Career fair for nationals opens on Nov 18 (The Peninsula)
Doha ? Qatar?s first national career fair will open on November 18. The fair is exclusively meant for Qatari job-seekers. Qatar Career Fair 2007, is organized jointly by Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, Qatar Petroleum and Qatar University....more... Gov.'s schools to emphasize science (Potomac News)
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine plans to open up to six Governor's Career and Technical Academies by next fall, adapting the challenging curriculum model to emphasize science, technology, engineering and math. School districts and community colleges are vying for the academies, which would be established in part with the assistance of a $500,000 grant awarded to the state this summer from the National ......more... Official: HK remains international financial center (People's Daily)
A Hong Kong official said in Washington that Hong Kong is an international financial center that offers bountiful opportunities for career development, the Information Services Department of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region governmen ......more... BUSINESS CALENDAR: Events across the region (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
MONDAY GRIFFITH | The Society of Manufacturing Engineers Calumet Chapter 112 will sponsor a plant tour of Aeromet Industries Inc., 739 S. Arbogast St., at 6 p.m. Dinner will immediately follow the tour. Cost is $15 per person. Reservations are required. Register at http://www.smechapter112.org or call Jeff Hill at (708) 269-8128....more... Plan for river's edge is greeted (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
This was no bland urban planning meeting. Instead, more than 1,500 people packed a meeting room at the Convention Center last night for a vision of the future of the Delaware River waterfront. What they saw prompted hearty applause and voiced hope for change....more... Big Island, big impact on Rainbow Wahine (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
The growth of Big Island basketball will be particularly evident today when Hawaii's starting five is introduced. Three Rainbow Wahine starters hail from the Big Island, a result of the development of high school and youth programs and, perhaps, the laid-back lifestyle of the island itself....more... |