The Secretary of the Interior’s Conference on Business Opportunities in the Islands is expected to attract approximately 200 executives from North and Southeast Asia, including Japan, China, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Philippines. Its principal objective, according to organizers at the University of Hawaii Pacific Business Center Program, is to make Asian businesses aware of the special opportunities for trade and investment that exist in U.S. insular areas. The conference will take place October 8-9 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel on Guam. Participation is by invitation only to businesses that have the experience, credibility, and financial resources to partner with insular area businesses.