HKTB LAUNCHES MEETINGS & EXHIBITIONS HK OFFICE TO TAKE CITY?S MICE BUSINESS TO THE NEXT LEVEL
Çѹ·Õè 18 ¾ÄȨԡÒ¹ 2551 14:22 ¹. Witnessed by Government officials, trade partners and close to 100 local and international media, the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) announced the establishment of its ?Meetings and Exhibitions Hong Kong? (MEHK) office.

Kansas City convention industry anticipates a 2009 dry spell
Meetings and conventions are lifeblood arteries of the travel industry. But in these recessionary days, the arteries are clogged with worry.

OOXML standards finally published and available free!
I am delighted to see that the free site for ISO publicly available standards finally has the OOXML standards available:

Focus on basics propels Cascades School's high writing scores
School leads district in meeting state standards

Meet the Visiting Ted Heads of the Theodore Roosevelt Association
The Theodore Roosevelt Association annual meeting was held this year locally.

Free port status ?won?t guarantee improved economy?
GEORGE TOWN: There is no plan to turn Penang into a free port as the status does not guarantee an improved economy.

Do You Have an Alcohol or Drug Problem?
Alcohol and drug use can progress into abuse and even addiction so insidiously that sometimes people do not realize that it has become a problem for them and those...

Char Valley school board goes paperless
It could mark the end of a long paper trail in Chartiers Valley School District.

County tourism summit to visit economic issues
Onondaga County tourism officials expect 2009 to be a challenging year because of the impact that the economic slowdown could have on their industry. "Absolutely," said David Holder, president of the Syracuse Convention & Visitors Bureau. "And I'm not saying that just for Syracuse.

Stars won?t align for Starbase Indy, but Freecon is set
This year?s Thanksgiving weekend Starbase Indy was being billed as an all-star extravaganza of stars featured in science fiction films and television series.

Labor Puppets
There is a showdown coming. It might turn into a gunfight. Or at least a fistfight. There is a huge City budget deficit. To close the gap, the current council only wants to talk about cuts in services.

Building ballpark could cost county $3 billion every year
By Michael Lewis Stadium talks between governments and the Florida Marlins are in extra innings. Contract deadlines have passed. Now dealings come up against a recession unanticipated during ballpark euphoria.

Lincoln Mitchell: The Republican Race that Wasn't
The Republican primary fight that didn't happen in the first months of 2008, may be unfolding now. As they begin to regroup, the GOP finds itself lacking leadership, vision or new constituencies.

The Turnover
It was a few weeks after the presidential election of 1992 when I emerged from the drafty escalators rising up from the Capitol South Metro station at First and C. Across the street was the GOP national headquarters, and right next to it was the Republican-friendly Capitol Hill Club. They probably weren't full of happy people, I guessed.

Government & Public Sector
United Kingdom: Regulatory Creep-Is It Inevitable? This paper will first discuss the concept of regulatory creep with reference to the corpus of regulatory activity.

Human Rights and Governance in Ethiopia
ASSISTANT SECRETARY KRAMER: Thank you very much for the introduction and thanks for inviting me to join you here today and to be with such a great panel. I do regret I?m just back from South Korea this weekend, so I won?t be able to stay to hear ...

HK Chief Executive visits Britain
Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China Donald Tsang started his three-day visit to Britain on Tuesday on his way to attend the 16th APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Economic Leaders' Informal Meeting in Peru on Nov. 22-23. On Tuesday afternoon, Tsang went to No. 10 Downing Street and had a 30-minute meeting with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, during ...

Ideas to break deadlock on club plan
If you want to make yourself unpopular with everybody involved in a controversial issue -- like, for instance, the proposed expansion of the Longboat Key Club and Resort -- suggest both sides need to compromise.

Vail Resorts braces for battle
BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. - Cutthroat competition has ski resorts like Vail and Beaver Creek, cruise lines and world-famous amusement parks rolling out flashy packages to tourists calloused by a tumultuous economy.

HK Chief Executive visits Britain
Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China Donald Tsang started his three-day visit to Britain on Tuesday on his way to attend the 16th APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Economic Leaders' Informal Meeting in Peru on Nov. 22-23.