Articles for PACC-DC

President Barack Obama has formed two interagency working groups that will look for ways to award more federal contracts to small businesses. Obama signed an executive order April 26 that established an interagency task force that will seek to develop opportunities for veteran-owned small businesses. He also signed a memo establishing an interagency task force to help small businesses overall win more federal contracts. In addition, the memo directs Federal Chief Technology Officer Aneesh ...

The Filipina Women's Network (FWN)’s search for the 100 Most Influential Filipina Women in the U.S. in now underway. FWN shall recognize these 100 Filipino women who have shifted the course of events in their own area of influence through ideas, activities, or interactions at a special awards event during the 5th Annual Filipina Summit to be held on October 25- 27, 2007 in Washington DC. FWN’s nationwide search for 100 Most Influential Filipina Women in the U.S. is a ...

By Artemio F. Cusi III Success in community development has encouraged further promotion of the "sister city" partnerships between the Philippines and the United States. Cooperation among urban communities of these two countries has spawned various forms of aid to the areas greatly in need of such help. The results of the partnerships are seen in the assistance poured by US donor cities into infrastructure, education, and health sectors, among others, in Philippine local government ...

John K. Yang fiddles with the blue, pen-shaped computer mouse he has spent three years peddling to local stores and national retail chains. In Seoul, a team of two dozen businessmen and 150 manufacturers work to produce the ergonomic mouse, designed to reduce wrist strain, for customers in Europe and Asia. In marketing it in the United States, though, Yang is on his own. He won't be much longer. His company, Waawoo Technology Inc., plans to move its headquarters from Seoul to Fairfax ...

A Texas bank that caters to the Asian community will open a full-service branch Sept. 1 in Springfield, its first in the area. Dallas-based United Central Bank, which opened loan processing centers in Alexandria and Richmond earlier this year, plans to take full advantage of what many people see as one of the hottest banking markets: Immigrants. Going after the Asian market is not a new practice for financial service companies. "If you are not marketing to Asians, you are ...