International Update

Allen & Overy is one of the world’s most active law firms, with more than 5,000 employees in 26 countries,

When a province is creating more than half the new jobs for its nation, chances are it’s a leader in competitiveness.

Atlantic Canada has taken heat over the years for its overfished waters. The kinetic energy those chilly waters produce may be harder to deplete.

How can a borderzone best employ its bi-national economic character for the good of both territories? Experiments now under way seek the answers.

A January foreign direct investment update from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development found that, after a decline in 2009, FDI inflows to Southeast Asia were booming again in 2010

Investments from key players will boost activity in a critical Montréal-area industry.

Wisconsin-based Manitowoc Cranes announced in February that it would establish its first Latin American manufacturing beachhead in Brazil.

Where Europe’s investors want to invest — and where they will.

The newest multinational among many to find the Aegean Free Trade Zone in Izmir, Turkey, is Cummins Inc.

Central America is increasingly valuable as a nearshoring option for U.S. multinational companies looking to site back office and contact center operations to serve North American clients.

Manufacturing and distribution plants aren’t the only operations being placed under the microscope of cost containment these days.

Analysis used to arrive at Site Selection’s Global Best to Invest rankings produced another benefit — an opportunity to shed light on investment in European metros that don’t often make headlines.

That’s what viewers of such films as “2012,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Titanic” and “Transformers” frequently say of the Academy-Award-winning work of Digital Domain, the Venice, Calif.-based visual effects studio that is owned by Florida investment and technology firm Wyndcrest Holdings.

Look past the Canadian Rockies and their travel and tourism draw, and even past Alberta’s booming bituminous sands region, and you’ll find Western Canada’s next signature industry — aerospace.

Government, business, academic and NGO officials from the 34 nations of the Western Hemisphere and beyond came to Atlanta in November for the fourth Americas Competitiveness Forum.

Investors in Mexico’s industrial market no longer brush aside concerns of escalating violence. Nor are they dissuaded from new investment, given the bigger picture.

Fresh from a trade mission to Germany, Sandra Pupatello, Ontario’s minister of trade and economic development, says she fielded lots of questions from business people about the economic state of things in North America.

Germany posted a GDP growth rate of 2.2 percent in the second quarter of 2010, the highest in 20 years.

A key component of the Iskandar Malaysia project in Johor took a key step forward earlier this year when the Senai Hi-Tech Park (Senai HTP) signed its first tenants.

By most accounts, China in this the “Year of the Tiger” has eclipsed Japan to become the world’s second largest economy.

From the elegant Far Eastern restaurant of the expansive recreation center of the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA),

Is there any business more Canadian than Tim Hortons?

Prince Edward Island may be comparatively diminutive in land area, but it’s just the right size — with room to grow — for a certain brand of biotech.