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We at Sunburst International Risk Management are dedicated to being your trusted source for global risk assessment and mitigation consulting and training services. Whether you travel for business, leisure, adventure, or study, the best way to ensure an enjoyable, productive, and safe trip is to be aware of what types of problems you may encounter, take steps to prevent problems before they happen, and be prepared to deal with problems if they do occur. We focus on the things that we believe matter most to our clients - helping them learn how to reduce the uncertainties of international travel and providing them with global protection and peace of mind. We are committed to delivering individualized services, risk assessment expertise, and carefully considered advice to our clients. We are proud to provide superior global protection and peace of mind to international travelers in over 100 countries.

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Global Risk Reduction Training

Whenever your employees travel to other countries either short-term or long-term, they may encounter risks and emergencies in a foreign land such as an unexpected accident or illness, political unrest, risk of being kidnapped. As an employer, you must exercise due diligence to ensure your employees are well prepared to deal with uncertainties, risks and threats in an unfamiliar and hostile overseas environment. Our Risk Reduction Training Program is designed to minimize your company's liability by helping your employees learn how to reduce the risks and deal with the uncertainties of international travel. We also train your employees in personal security and how to handle an emergency in a potentially hostile overseas environment.

How to Conduct Business in a Hostile Overseas Environment: Training to give assigned executives and employees of corporations or organizations an acute awareness of unfamiliar overseas environment, conflict regions, and ongoing security threats in a host country and region. We teach trainees sound mitigation procedures and provide solutions to help them deal with risks and crises they may encounter while doing business abroad.

Knowing Your Host Country's Local Laws, Traditions, and Customs:Training to provide an in-depth awareness and understanding about local laws, traditions, and customs of the host country to which your executives and employees are traveling. Knowing how to conduct oneself appropriately according to the local laws, traditions, and customs of the host country will help to reduce risks and create good will with your counterparts in foreign countries. Understanding the host country's local, traditions, and culture may bring positive impact on your company's operation abroad. Failure to understand these factors can lead to embarrassment at best and could put your personnel and business at risk.

Overseas Crisis Management Workshop: Training to provide practical procedures on how to deal with crises overseas such as travel safety, legal problems with local authority, car hijacking, political detention, extortion, medical emergency, and how to avoid being crime victim overseas.

How to Avoid Being Kidnapped: Kidnapping has increasingly become a major threat to governments and businesses around the world. Our training presents actual kidnapping cases and provides practical advice on how not to be an easy target for being kidnapped.

Comprehensive International Travel Safety and Security Training: In-depth training on how to assess, analyze and minimize risks while doing business in a potentially hostile or high-risk overseas environment. This workshop will include the key training elements listed above and more.

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East Asia / Pacific - China
Fifth of China goods sub-standard July 4, 2007
Nearly a fifth of goods made and sold in China have been found to be sub-standard, Beijing has revealed. The worst problems were found in canned fruit, dried fish and fruit drinks, a food inspectors' report said.

Europe - Germany, Greece
Greek jet makes emergency landing April 23, 2007
A Greek aircraft carrying MEPs has made an emergency landing in Germany's Munich airport following a bomb threat, German and Greek officials have said.

Europe - Russia
Lockdown for foreigners at Moscow school April 19, 2007
A leading Moscow university ordered its foreign students on Thursday to remain in their dormitories for the next three days because of fears of ethnic violence before Adolf Hitler's birthday this weekend, students said.

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Sub-Saharan Africa - Tanzania
Tourists attacked in Tanzania Mar. 22, 2007
Nairobi - Two US tourists and their Tanzanian guide were shot and wounded by robbers in northern Tanzania.

East Asia / Pacific - Philippines
Cargo ships sinks in Philippines Mar. 21, 2007
A cargo ship sank in the northern Philippines on Wednesday, leaving one crewman dead and five missing, the coast guard said. Thirteen others were rescued. The Panamanian-registered ship MV Unicorn Ace sank about 80 miles off Curimao in Ilocos Norte province, which is about 250 miles north of Manila, said Amado Lorenzana, a coast guard officer.

East Asia / Pacific - China
Security tight in China riot town Mar. 15, 2007
Zhushan City, China: Security is tight in a town in central China following riots that involved as many as 20,000 people.

Sub-Saharan Africa - Nigeria
Lagos Carjacking Highlights Increased Risk Mar. 6, 2007
An employee of an American organization and her personal driver were victims of a carjacking outside her Lagos office compound. She reported being told by the carjackers that they were going to kill her, and that they knew she was American.

Americas, East Asia / Pacific, Middle East / N. Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa - Canada, China, Egypt, Kenya, Somalia
Canadian Passport Has No Shield Mar. 2, 2007
The lure of "home'' is powerful. But a Canadian passport is no guarantee that citizens won't come to grief when they venture into perilous realms.

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Europe - United Kingdom
Terror threat to Britain worst since 9/11 Feb. 26, 2007
London, Britain: The threat of a terrorist attack in Britain by home-grown Islamists is at its highest since the September 11, 2001 attacks, a newspaper said, citing a secret government report.

Europe - Germany
Couple suspected of threatening to derail trains Feb. 24, 2007
Berlin, Germany: To the relief of the German railways, a couple who threatened over a two-week period to derail trains have been arrested on extortion charges, police in Berlin said Thursday.

Sub-Saharan Africa - Guinea
Guinea Airport Situation Feb. 14, 2007
This warden message is being issued to update American citizens regarding information on Air France flights out of Guinea. A flight left Guinea for Paris yesterday. We believe Air France will try to operate flights to Paris starting Thursday, February 15 to Sunday February 19, 2007.

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South / Central Asia - Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan Earthquake Preparedness Feb. 13, 2007
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan: The U.S. Embassy in Kyrgyzstan would like to remind American Citizens that Kyrgyzstan is located in a seismically-active zone.

East Asia / Pacific - Philippines
Hundreds flee as clashes erupt in Philippine south Feb. 12, 2007
MANILA, Philippines (Reuters) - Hundreds of people have fled a village in the southern Philippines after troops stormed a Muslim rebel base, hunting for dozens of prisoners who escaped from jail earlier this month, the rebels and officials said on Monday.

East Asia / Pacific - China
Buddhist beheaded in Thai south Feb. 9, 2007
A 72-year-old Buddhist rice miller was beheaded in Thailand's rebellious Muslim south on Thursday in an apparent retaliation for a bomb attack on a village tea shop owned by Muslims, police said.

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Oil workers targeted as Nigeria violence grows Feb. 5, 2007
Port Harcourt, Nigeria: Thousands of foreign workers and their families have left Africa's top oil producer since a faceless new militant group launched unprecedented attacks about a year ago on the places where they work, live and relax.

Sub-Saharan Africa - Cameroon
Safety and Security
Cameroon Carjackers Target Toyota SUVs 1/31/07
U.S. Embassy employees have been briefed on the frequency of carjackings involving high-end Toyota sport utility vehicles to include the Land Cruiser and Land Cruiser Prado

Europe - Netherlands
North Sea Airborne Chemical Danger 1/30/07
U.S. Consulate General Amsterdam issued this warning to U.S. Citizens traveling to and residing in the Netherlands that the Consulate has been informed that a ship fire west of Amsterdam is releasing large amounts of Hydrogen-Cyanide and Carbon-Monoxide into the air, which is blowing east towards Amsterdam and north towards Beverwijk and Zaanstad.

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East Asia / Pacific - Australia
Magnitude 6.7 earthquake strikes off Australia's Macquarie Island
SYDNEY, Australia (AP): A magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocked the coast of Australia's remote Macquarie Island Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

United Kingdom plans for tougher immigration controls.
Britain: The government says its long-term aim is to be able to identify everyone entering and leaving Britain. It will also make ID cards compulsory for foreign nationals.

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United Kingdom plans for tougher immigration controls. Britain: The government says its long-term aim is to be able to identify everyone entering and leaving Britain. It will also make ID cards compulsory for foreign nationals.

United Kingdom plans for tougher immigration controls.
Britain: The government says its long-term aim is to be able to identify everyone entering and leaving Britain. It will also make ID cards compulsory for foreign nationals.