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The Government of Hungary has hired Strategic Improvisation Inc. to generate positive media coverage and combat negative press coverage of the Central European country. (6 reader comments)
Edelman's Carlos Correcha-Price is joining Madrid's Llorente & Cuenca as CEO of its US operations in Miami.
Jason Cao, most recently China general manager for The Hoffman Agency, has joined Interpublic’s Golin to oversee its operations in China.
FTI Consulting received $740K for strategic communications on behalf of Ukraine's prosecutor general for work linked to client of Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's former campaign manager. (1 reader comment)
Myriad International Marketing was enlisted to promote U.S travel to the Shizuoka prefecture in Central Japan.
Glover Park Group has a $600K-plus contract to represent strife-torn Cameroon, advising its government on ties with the US and relevant institutions.
Greece has hired DLA Piper to a $75K monthly retainer contract to advance its mutual interests with the US in the areas of economics, trade, foreign policy and national security.
Ballard Partners has signed an open-ended contract with Nigeria’s People's Democratic Party, which is the main political opposition group, pegged at $1.1M per-year.
BCW (Burson Cohn & Wolfe) is working with Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas under a one-year $300K strategic communications contract to promote its economic initiatives and economic messages internationally.
Chartwell Strategy Group is providing government relations and PR communications services to Kosovo's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott is lobbying on behalf of the Silk Road Group, private investor firm in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, that was once a business partner of the Trump Organization. (1 reader comment)
Afghanistan has brought on DLA Piper to handle its communications with US government officials as president Trump has famously expressed his desire to “Get the Hell out of Afghanistan.”
Former US Solicitor General Ted Olson spearheads the Saudi Arabia embassy’s effort to protect the Kingdom from US oil price-fixing lawsuits. (8 reader comments)
Steve Lipin's Gladstone Place Partners is working for the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, which is backing the construction of the $500B mega-city that is meant to help the Kingdom diversify its economic base and reduce its dependence on energy revenues. (1 reader comment)
Burson-Marsteller Washington has registered a $700K agreement to promote investment in the Philippines.
Blue Star Strategies, which was founded by a pair of president Bill Clinton aides, represents the Bangladesh National Party in the US ahead of the elections slated by the end of the year.
APCO Worldwide has agreed to represent the Goethe-Institut’s Washington office and its participation in Deutschlandjahr (Year of Germany) 2018-2019, which kicks off in October.
Mercury Public Affairs has signed an $840K one-year agreement to represent high-flying Hikvision USA, the China government-connected leader in the making of video surveillance systems.
Edelman has recruited Ian McCabe, who was Asia Pacific vice chairman for PA & government communications at Burson-Marsteller, as vice chair of its APAC PA group.
Burson-Marsteller Washington handles public policy and PA issues for high-flying Hikvision, the China-government affiliated dominant maker of video surveillance systems.
New York’s BerlinRosen is providing strategic communications and media relations support through August for the Cambodia National Rescue Movement, which was formed in January by exiled opponents of prime minister Hun Sen.
Sitrick And Company has agreed to serve as public communications advisor and consultant to the Embassy of Qatar. (2 reader comments)
Ballard Partners, which has close ties to the Trump administration, has signed on as DC representative for Turkiye Halk Bankasi AS, the Turkish state-owned bank, on financial services matters. (1 reader comment)
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