AsiaNet Daily Summary - Press Releases for Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Wednesday 09 April 2008 17:19
SYDNEY--9 Apr--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
GROUP REPORTS...
KUALA LUMPUR - A Malaysian investor group claims that some
unscrupulous businessmen in Papua New Guinea are thwarting
their government's efforts to attract more foreign direct
investment to the country.
TELENOR SELECTS...
SINGAPORE - Acision, the messaging and charging company of
choice for over 300 network operators and service providers,
announced Wednesday that Telenor Pakistan has selected Acision
to provide its high performance Next Generation Short Message
Service Centre (SMSC), Pre-delivery Service Agent (PSA), a
gateway for message charging, and Business Tools platform.
www.acision.com
ELCOTEQ PARTICIPATES...
HONG KONG - Elcoteq SE, a leading integrated electronics
manufacturing services company with original design
manufacturing capabilities in the communications technology
field, will introduce its electronics manufacturing services
and present as one of the keynote speakers at the
Next-Generation Mobile Technologies Seminar, being held at the
Embassy of Canada in Tokyo, Japan on April 17 and 18, 2008.
http://www.elcoteq.com
http://iemf.jp/Event/index.html
PROLOGIS JV...
DENVER - ProLogis, the world's largest owner, manager and
developer of distribution facilities, announced Wednesday that
it has entered the market in India through a 50/50 development
joint venture agreement with K Raheja Corp, one of the largest
real estate developers in India.
http://www.krahejacorp.com
http://www.krahejacorp.com
BANCO INFORMS...
SAO PAULO - To strengthen accountability and transparency,
Banco Itau Holding Financeira S.A. is making additional
information available on the Investor Relations website to
supplement the Convening Notice to an Ordinary and
Extraordinary General Meeting this coming April 23.
http://www.itauir.com
ADDINTOOLS EASES...
HAIKOU - Addintools announced Wednesday the release of
Classic Menu for Office 2007 v3.91, a new update for the
popular suite of tools that enables users to introduce the
interface of MS Office 2003 into MS Office 2007.
http://www.addintools.com
http://www.addintools.com/english/menuoffice
MOMAGRI INTRODUCES...
BRUSSELS - Pierre Pagesse, Chairman of momagri, a
Paris-based think tank, Wednesday announced the initial results
of momagri's economic model to the European Parliament.
http://www.momagri.org
RTS ENTERS...
CHICAGO - RTS Realtime Systems Group and SYSTEX Corporation
(SYSTEX) Wednesday announced that they have entered into a
distribution agreement to sell and support the entire portfolio
of RTS' professional trading solutions to the Taiwanese
market.
http://www.rtsgroup.net
http://www.SYSTEX.com.tw
NOVAGALI ANNOUNCES...
EVRY, Novagali Pharma, an ophthalmic specialty
pharmaceutical company announces the commercial launch in
France of its first product Cationorm.
http://www.novagali.com
FRANKLIN LAUNCHES...
COLUMBUS- Franklin International, a global leader in the
manufacture of glues, adhesives and sealants, is launching a
new operation in China -- Franklin (Guangzhou) Adhesives
Company, Ltd. -- to be in closer proximity to the increasing
number of customers in the wood assembly and construction
markets in China and the Pacific Rim.
http://franklininternational.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal
amount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$700
million on April 18 & 22, 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 MTNR securities issues amounting to a total of US$25
million on April 18, 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$10.66 million on April 18, 2008 at a redemption price equal
to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued
interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
TEST STARTS...
HONG KONG - One of the leading game developers and operators
in the PRC, NetDragon Websoft Inc. has announced that on 30
March 2008, it officially started its black dragon testing
client of the game "Heroes of Might and Magic Online", which is
to be launched in 2008.
GENTA DONATES...
GENEVA - As a partner of the Theodora Foundation for the
past two years, Gerald Genta will be contributing to the
charity auction organised by Christie's on April the 16th by
donating a one-of-a-kind watch.
SWAGMEN CRAWL...
PERTH - Australian-based touring company, Thirsty Swagman,
is initiating Europe's longest pub crawl during Oktoberfest,
bringing a limited number of travellers on an 11-night
pub-crawling party across several European countries.
www.WorldsBiggestPubCrawl.com
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