AsiaNet Daily Summary - Press Releases for Friday, Mar. 5, 2010

Friday 05 March 2010 15:35
PULP CONFERENCE...

SHANGHAI: RISI today announced plans for their 2010 Asian pulp and paper

industry conference. The 11th Asian Pulp and Paper Outlook Conference will take

place June 7 — 9, 2010 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Shanghai.

http://www.risi.com

EUROPEAN OFFICE...

BERLIN and TOKYO: Japanese solar company Showa Shell Solar has announced a new

investment in Germany. Along with the company's renaming to Solar Frontier, the

CIS (copper-indium-selenium) photovoltaic module manufacturer will open its

first European office in Munich in 2012. Germany Trade & Invest supported the

company with its investment plans.

PHARMA EVENTS...

AMSTERDAM: Reflecting the growth in interest in the fine chemicals,

pharmaceuticals and bio-pharmaceuticals industries in what is the second

largest pharmaceutical market in the world after the United States, leading

events organiser UBM International Media and sister company UBM Japan Co. Ltd.

today announced details of their 2010 Japanese Pharma events roster.

http://www.pmec-japan.com

TRANING PROGRAM...

TORONTO: A credential for project managers who specialize in project risk

management is now available through the Project Management Institute (PMI).

Bay3000 Corporate Education, a GLOBAL PMI Registered Education Provider, is

pleased to announce a new intensive training program to prepare prospective

candidates to write the exam and earn the PMI Risk Management Professional

(PMI-RMP(R)) Credential.

www.Bay3000.com

STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP...

SANTA CLARA, Calif: Fortify Infrastructure Services (Fortify), a leading IT

infrastructure services company, is pleased to announce its strategic

partnership with Key Pair Technologies (Key Pair), an innovative product and

solutions company for managing and securing distributed applications and

resources in the cloud.

www.FortifyIS.com

SHOELESS CAMPAIGN...

NEW YORK: In an effort to bring attention to the impact a simple pair of shoes

can have in a child's life, TOMS Shoes announces its third annual One Day

Without Shoes campaign that asks everyone worldwide to go barefoot on April

8th.

http://www.OneDayWithoutShoes.com

COMDEX RELAUNCH...

LONDON: UBM, the leading global provider of business media and marketing

services, is relaunching COMDEX as a virtual event which will take place

November 16-17, 2010.

http://www.ubm.com/

VIRTUAL EVENT...

FRAMINGHAM, Mass: Everything Channel, a UBM company and the leader in

technology sales channel media and services, today announced the re-launch of

COMDEX as a virtual event.

www.COMDEX.com (http://www.everythingchannel.com, http://www.channelweb.com )

WEB TRANSFORMATION...

CHICAGO: InXpo, the largest virtual event technology provider, and e-media

innovator, UBM Studios, a division of global media giant, UBM, today announced

that the two companies have combined forces to transform the web with

next-generation virtual business solutions that help organizations extend the

reach of established trade shows, reduce costs, and increase employee

productivity.

http://www.ubmstudios.com http://www.inxpo.com

IP-VPN SERVICES...

TOKYO and MOSCOW: NTT Communications Corp. (NTT Com), a global ICT solutions

provider, and Company TTK (TTK), the operator of Russia's largest fiber-optic

network, announced on March 4 the interconnection of NTT Com's Arcstar(TM)

Global IP-VPN and TTK's IP-VPN services in Russia, and the availability of

Arcstar Global IP-VPN service throughout Russia.

www.ntt.com/index-e.html

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