Sydney--16 Apr--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
KOREAN KITCHEN...
BUSAN - Many know of GreenPans huge success in the American and European
cookware markets. Less realize that a Korean invention and know-how lies behind
this success.
http://www.thermolon.com
JETSTAR PACIFIC...
HO CHI MINH CITY - Qantas Group airline Jetstar, and Pacific Airlines
(Pacific Airlines Joint Stock Aviation Company) have entered into a major
strategic and commercial partnership to support the Vietnamese carriers plan
for future growth within both Vietnam and intra Asia markets under the Jetstar
brand.
ESPA INTERNATIONAL...
DUBAI - ESPA International is a UK based global luxury spa company offering
total spa solutions including: a world-renowned spa design and management
division, an extensive natural product range, innovative and effective
treatments and unsurpassed post graduate therapist training programmes. Since
its inception in 1993, ESPA has become a leading provider of luxury spa and
wellness products and services.
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070805/268060
EUROSPORT DELIVERY...
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. - On2 Technologies, Inc. (Amex: ONT), a leader in video
compression technologies, announced today it has licensed its Flix(R) Engine
encoding and publishing platform to Eurosport, a leading on-line sports brand.
By using Flix Engine, Eurosport will standardize its online video programming
to On2 based video for Adobe(R) Flash(R), and will migrate its archive
programming across Europe and China to the On2 format.
http://www.on2.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTN
securities issues amounting to a total of US$100 million on April 24, 2008 at a
redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus
accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of FINP
securities issues amounting to a total of US$16.022 million on April 24, 2008
at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed
plus accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
HUYA BIOSCIENCE ANNOUNCEMENT...
SAN DIEGO, CA. - HUYA Bioscience International (HUYA), the leader in
U.S./China pharmaceutical co-development, today announced the outcome of the
first pre-IND (Investigational New Drug) consultation with the U.S. FDA for a
development-stage compound sourced from China. The new compound, HBI-8000
(CS055 / Chidamide), licensed from Chipscreen Biosciences, Ltd. of Shenzhen,
China, shows promise for the treatment of a broad range of cancers and is
nearing completion of a Phase I trial in China. HUYA holds exclusive
development and commercialization rights to the compound worldwide outside of
China, while Chipscreen maintains rights in China.
http://www.huyabio.com
BOEHRINGER ANTIHYPERTENSIVE...
INGELHEIM - Boehringer Ingelheim today announced that the European
Commission has granted marketing authorisation of the new powerful strength of
their fixed dose combination antihypertensive drug MicardisPlus(R) 80/25 in all
27 EU member states. It will be launched in Germany and Denmark in the coming
weeks, followed soon by Ireland, the United Kingdom and the rest of EU, and
when approved also in other countries around the world.
http://www.boehringer-ingelheim.com
RITCHIE BROS. AUCTION...
CHEMAINUS, BC - A large selection of equipment well suited to New Zealand forestry practices
will be sold when Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (NYSE and TSX: RBA) conducts an
unreserved auction in Chemainus, British Columbia, Canada on April 22, 2008.
More than 400 forestry, transportation and other equipment items will be sold
to the highest bidders on auction day -- regardless of price. Among the
forestry equipment that will be sold: two 2002 Madill 124 interlocking grapple
yarders -- which are among the largest pieces of forestry equipment in the
world, feller bunchers, processors, skidders, log loaders, log trucks, log
trailers and rigging. The auction will be open to the public and completely
unreserved, with no minimum bids and no reserve prices. Interested buyers can
bid in person at the auction site or live over the internet using the Ritchie
Bros. real-time internet bidding service, rbauctionBid-Live.
www.rbauction.com .
CHRYSLER AND NISSAN...
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. and TOKYO - Chrysler LLC and Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.,
today announced two new agreements for the supply of products between both
companies. In January, Nissan agreed to supply Chrysler with a new car based on
the Nissan Versa sedan for limited distribution in South America on an Original
Equipment Manufacture (OEM) basis in 2009.
http://www.media.chrysler.com
J.K. ROWLING STATEMENT...
NEW YORK - Author J.K. Rowling has issued the following statement:
"It gives me no pleasure to take legal action, but I am here today because I
feel very strongly about an important issue that affects everyone and not just
me. If books that plagiarise other works are permitted, authors, fans and
readers stand to lose. There are lots of books in many languages that comment
on or criticize Harry Potter, and that's fine. But the book in this case is
different. It provides no analysis and virtually no commentary. It takes far
too much and it offers precious little in return. I would just like to add that
I am extremely grateful for the incredible support of Harry Potter fans
everywhere."
ANGEL IN DUBAI...
NEW YORK - Mark Nejmeh, President, MagKinetics Inc. will travel to Dubai to
seek an Angel for his development stage renewable energy company with their
patent pending technology for "A system and method for creating electricity
from moving vehicular traffic." MagKinetics has been patiently and thoroughly
seeking a financially qualified and socially responsible investor or group and
is now reaching out to the world community to bring this opportunity directly
to such investors. The company is now arranging meetings in Dubai for their
executive visit on April 21 - 23, 2008.
http://www.magkinetics.com
COGNIZANT PARTNERSHIP...
TOKYO - Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH), a leading provider of global consulting,
software, IT infrastructure and business process services today announced an
alliance with CTC Laboratory Systems (CTCLS) to help Japanese pharmaceutical
companies enhance efficiencies in drug discovery and development.
http://www.cognizant.com
VERISIGN SINGAPORE...
SINGAPORE - With e-criminals increasingly luring consumers to imposter Web sites designed
to steal sensitive personal details, Singapores No. 1 ticketing agency is
making it easier for its customers to shop with confidence, thanks to advanced
security solutions from VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of
Internet infrastructure services for the networked world.
www.verisign.com.sg
ZENSYS ANNOUNCEMENT...
FREMONT, Calif., - Zensys, developer of the award-winning Z-Wave wireless
home control standard, today announced a Panasonic investment. This investment
adds a global leader in consumer electronics to an impressive list of investors
that includes Intel Capital, Cisco, Bessemer Venture Partners, Palamon Capital
Partners and Sunstone Capital. Zensys will use the funding to further its push
into the Global Home Automation and control marketplace.
http://www.z-wave.com .
VERIZON BUSINESS...
BASKING RIDGE, N.J., - Verizon Business is making it even simpler for multinational customers with
operations in the Asia-Pacific region and Canada to manage the costs of their
enterprise mobility services.
http://www.verizon.com
http://www.verizonbusiness.com
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