SYDNEY--14 Nov--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
AUCTION HOUSE...
HONG KONG: Atting House, the first Hong Kong-based auction
house to sell fine art through an entirely Internet-based
auction environment is to stage its debut online auction from
November 21-22 featuring over 130 works from 66 up and coming
contemporary Chinese artists.
www.attinghouse.com
RETAIL THEFT...
HONG KONG: The first edition of the Global Retail Theft
Barometer, conducted by the Center for Retail Research in
Nottingham, United Kingdom, and sponsored by Checkpoint
Systems, Inc., offers the first attempt to put a price tag on
retail theft across the globe.
www.retailresearch.org
www.checkpointasiapac.com
AGMMA LAUNCHES...
CAIRNS: The Australasian Gaming Machine Manufacturers
Association has launched its new "Responsible Gaming Machine
Play" leaflet, providing free, independent and accurate
information about gaming machines in a simple and easy to
understand format to assist players to make informed
decisions.
www.agmma.com
SCRABBLE CHAMPIONSHIP...
NEW YORK: For the first time in history, India played host
to the 9th World Scrabble Championship in November 2007.
Brought to India under the aegis of Mattel Toys (India) Pvt.
Ltd, the World Scrabble Championship had over 110 players
representing 42 countries vying for the coveted title. The
three-day championship kick-started in Mumbai on November 9 and
culminated with a mega final on November 12.
http://media.medialink.com/WebNR.aspx?story=34098
www.wscgames.com
www.mediaseed.tv/Story.aspx?story=34098
www.wscgames.com
www.mediaseed.tv
DIABETES DAY...
NEW YORK: On the first United Nations World Diabetes Day,
the International Diabetes Federation calls on governments to
develop national policies for the prevention, care and
treatment of diabetes and calls on donors worldwide to consider
the need for a diabetes global fund to tackle the growing
diabetes epidemic.
www.idf.org
www.worlddiabetesday.org
www.thenewsmarket.com/wdd
GERMANY HOSTS...
DUSSELDORF: MEDICA is the world's leading medical industry
trade fair. Over 2,000 international exhibitors will gather
here, from November 14th-17th, to present new advances and
technologies for in-patient and out-patient care.
www.invest-in-germany.com
GOLDEN CHINA...
TORONTO: Golden China Resources Corporation has released its
unaudited financial results for the three months ended
September 30, 2007.
www.goldenchina.ca
www.renmarkfinancial.com
OQO WINS...
SAN FRANCISCO and TOKYO: OQO Inc., creator of the world's
smallest fully functional Windows Vista PC, announced that it
has received the prestigious Good Design Award 2007, sponsored
by the Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization.
www.brule.co.jp
www.expansys.jp
www.oqo.com
MICREL SHOWCASES...
YOKOHAMA: Micrel, Inc., an industry leader in analog, high
bandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, announced
that it will showcase a new Ethernet solution at Embedded
Technology 2007.
www.micrel.com
www.firecomms.com
FIGHTING DIABETES...
NEW YORK: The Global Partnership for Effective Diabetes
Management have called for an overhaul in the world's attitude
and approach toward diabetes treatment and prevention in order
to reverse the rising diabetes epidemic recently recognised by
the first United Nations World Diabetes Day.
www.gsk.com
www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/ijcp/61/s157
ENTREPRENEUR NOMINATED...
MUNICH: T. Tyler Moebius, the Founder and CEO of Adconion
Media Group, a global advertising network, is one of the
entrepreneurs nominated for the "Changing Times Award".
www.adconion.com
www.vibrio.de
http://presse.vibrio.de/info/45203
http://presse.vibrio.de/info/43910
THE PLAZA...
LAS VEGAS, Nevada: The Plaza, a brand known throughout the
world for luxurious elegance and beauty, begins the entry into
the Las Vegas gaming and hospitality market with the implosion
of the Frontier Hotel & Casino.
www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071113/LATU130-a
www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071113/LATU130-b
NAVTEQ DEBUTS...
CHICAGO, Illinois: NAVTEQ, a leading global provider of
digital map data for location-based solutions and vehicle
navigation, is continuing its commitment to LBS development in
the Asia-Pacific region by exhibiting at the upcoming GSMA
Mobile Asia Congress, 12-15 November 2007, at The Venetian in
Macao. This year will mark NAVTEQ's first appearance at the
global mobile event.
www.navteq.com
www.NN4D.com
www.LBSChallenge.com
www.mobileasiacongress.com
www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060313/NAVTEQLOGO
DIABETES DAY...
PRINCETON, New Jersey: The Changing Diabetes Bus and Village
hosted visitors at New York City's Union Square Park, as its
tour around the globe concluded on the eve of the first United
Nations-sanctioned World Diabetes Day.
http://novonordisk.com
http://novonordisk-us.com
http://changingdiabetes-us.com
www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020404/NVOLOGO
OPEC PUMPS...
LONDON: The 12 members of the Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries (OPEC) pumped an average 31.11 million
barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil in October, or a 350,000 b/d
increase from September, largely on higher volumes from Saudi
Arabia and Iraq, a Platts survey showed November 12.
www.platts.com
www.opec.platts.com
www.mcgraw-hill.com
CELEBRATING ENTREPRENEURSHIP...
LONDON: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown joined Carl
Schramm of the Kauffman Foundation in starting the countdown to
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2008, the world's biggest single
event celebrating and promoting entrepreneurship amongst young
people.
www.unleashingideas.org
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal
amount of FINP, FINS, MTN and MTNR securities issues on
November 23, 2007 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent
of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. Fannie
Mae will also redeem the principal amount of MTN securities
issues on November 24 and 28, 2007.
www.fanniemae.com
REAL SOFTWARE...
AUSTIN, Texas: REAL Software, a leading developer of
cross-platform software for Windows, Macintosh and Linux,
announced that REALbasic 2007 Release 5 is shipping.
www.realsoftware.com
www.realsoftware.com/download
"GREEN" OTIS...
FARMINGTON, Connecticut: Otis Elevator Company, a unit of
United Technologies Corp., will supply and install 74 elevators
with energy-efficient ReGen drives for Section B of Shanghai
World Expo Village, a major infrastructure project for the 2010
World Expo in Shanghai.
www.otis.com
PICARRO ANNOUNCES...
SUNNYVALE, California: Picarro, a leading manufacturer of
high-performance trace gas analyzers, announced that Michael
Woelk has joined the company as president and chief executive
officer.
www.picarro.com
SCREEN AWARDS...
GOLD COAST: Winners in the inaugural Asia Pacific Screen
Awards, the regions highest accolade in film in 2007, have been
announced at a special ceremony on the Gold Coast, Queensland,
Australia.
www.asiapacificscreenawards.com
NORKOM ANNOUNCES...
DUBLIN: Norkom has announced a 53 per cent increase in
revenue to euro 17.6 million (US$25.8 million) and a 50 per
cent improvement in EBITDA (Earnings before interest, tax,
depreciation and amortisation) to euro 3.1 million for the half
year ended 30 September 2007.
MOBILE PAYMENT...
MACAO: Over the next several months, 12 mobile operators
will run trials of contactless mobile payment services in
Australia, France, Ireland, Korea, Malaysia, Norway, The
Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Turkey, and the U.S. as a
precursor to commercial launches.
www.gsmworld.com
RESEARCH REVEALS...
MACAO: The global trade association for the mobile industry,
the GSM Association, and Microsoft Corp. have published the
results of the first-ever consumer study into mobile broadband
computing that shows that there is a tremendous addressable -
but currently untapped - market.
www.gsmworld.com
TANDBERG NAMED...
SINGAPORE: TANDBERG, a leading global provider of
telepresence, high-definition videoconferencing and mobile
video, has been named recipient of the 2008 Frost & Sullivan
Global Video Conferencing Company of the Year Award for its
excellence in product innovation as well as market execution
that has accelerated the adoption of video conferencing.
www.awards.frost.com
www.tandberg.com
AIDS TREATMENT...
NEW DELHI: As part of its ongoing global campaign to improve
access to lifesaving AIDS treatments worldwide, AIDS Healthcare
Foundation and a broad-based coalition of other international
and Indian civil society partners and HIV/AIDS organizations,
have joined together in a public appeal to the Honorable Dr.
Manmohan Singh, India's Prime Minister, urging him to intercede
and help facilitate the rollout of lifesaving second-line
antiretroviral AIDS treatments in India.
www.aidshealth.org
NEUSTAR BUILDS...
LONDON: NeuStar, Inc. announced that it has facilitated the
rollout of Windows Live Messenger with 3 Macao as part of 3's
popular X-Series brand, building upon the success of the mobile
IM service with 3 Hong Kong.
www.neustar.biz
www.neustar.biz/ngm
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