By Adina Moloman Source: San Diego Reader, UT San Diego On January 21, San Diego mayor Bob Filner had his first official meeting in Tijuana with Mayor Carlos Bustamante and border entrepreneurs, representatives of the Tijuana Maquiladora Industry. This is not Filner’s first appearance in Tijuana, last year he visited the organizers of Tijuana Innovadora [...]
San Diego’s border affairs office in Tijuana
By Adina Moloman Sources: KPBS, UT San Diego Bob Filner won election as mayor of San Diego in November 2012 and took office in early December 2012. He becomes the first Democrat elected mayor of San Diego since Maureen O’Connor in 1988. Starting his election campaign he showed a high commitment to cross-border cooperation. He [...]
MEDevice Forum San Diego with bi-national participation
By Adina Moloman Source: MeDevice Forum San Diego MEDevice Forum San Diego was a two-day medical event that was held at The San Diego Convention Center. Hundreds of medical device professionals from all over Southern California and Baja California assisted the event in order to keep up with new medical technology and industry news, evaluating [...]
State Route 905 Grand Opening
By Adina Moloman Sources: SANDAG, Otay Mesa Chamber of Commerce California Route 905 freeway from the Otay Mesa Port of Entry to Interstate 805 finally got to its completion. This is a long expected alternative for commercial traffic, giving the fact that Otay Mesa is the busiest commercial port on the U.S.-Mexico border and it [...]
Official Opening of a new manufacturing plant in Tijuana: Össur
By Adina Moloman SEDECO, www.ossur.com September 23rd took place the official opening of the first Iceland manufacturing facility in Tijuana, Össur[1]. Officials from Mexico government (Baja California Governor, Tijuana Mayor) and officials from Össur (President and CEO) assisted at the ribbon cutting ceremony. The manufacturing company received a monetary of nearly $ 1,116 million from [...]
Second edition: Tijuana Innovadora
By Adina Moloman Source: www.tijuanainnovadora.com Tijuana Innovadora Second Editions runs from October 12 to 21, 2012. This was announced by the Executive Coordinator, Alejandro Bustamante, where the preliminary program for the next year should be over by the October 2011. It is expected to be a huge event, with the participations of global technology leaders, [...]
