Posted on: Monday, December 12, 2005
Coming events
Advertiser Staff
BEST BETS
From children to the elderly; from automobile safety, healthcare, identity theft to natural disasters — how global communications giant Fujitsu Ltd. is responding to people's needs will be the topic of a speech next week by Fujitsu executive Tetsuo Urano. The address, 'UNLEASHING TOMORROW: How Fujitsu's Technologies are Changing the Way We Live," is presented by the Japan-America Institute of Management Science. Urano, a 35-year veteran of Fujitsu marketing, sales and senior management, is head of Fujitsu North American operations. The luncheon address is scheduled 11 a.m.-1 p.m. (10:30 a.m. registration) Dec. 19 at JAIMS headquarters, 6660 Hawai'i Kai Drive. Free. Reservations by Wednesday. Information: 396-7128.
Kevin Chong Kee, newly appointed head of the Aloha Stadium Authority, will address some of the "hot" issues facing the stadium in a noon luncheon meeting Thursday of the EXCHANGE CLUB OF DOWNTOWN HONOLULU. Fee; guests welcome. Location: Ed Kemper, 524-0330, ext. 2.
TOMORROW
The "what, when and where" of filing business taxes will be the focus of an all-day "STATE AND FEDERAL TAX PROCEDURE WORKSHOP" tomorrow, sponsored by the Hawai'i Women's Business Center. The business development workshop on Hawai'i general excise and use taxes is scheduled 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at 1041 Nu'uanu Ave., Suite A, and will include participation by a state Department of Taxation representative and others. Fee. Registration: 526-1001.
THURSDAY
Bank of Hawai'i chief economist Paul Brewbaker speaks to the luncheon meeting of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties' local chapter, scheduled 7:30 to 9 a.m. at the Pacific Club. Fee; nonmembers welcome; tickets at door. Regular reservations by tomorrow: Barbie Rosario, 845-4994.
FRIDAY
THE HAWAI'I SOCIETY OF ENROLLED AGENTS will hold its monthly breakfast meeting at 7:15 a.m. Friday at the Pacific Club. Continuing education credits available. Fee. 735-9004.
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