AsiaNet Daily Summary - Press Releases for Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Wednesday 08 June 2011 15:59
DISTRIBUTION CENTER...

SINGAPORE: ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ONNN), a premier supplier of high

performance silicon solutions for energy efficient electronics, has opened its

new Singapore hub for global distribution.

http://www.onsemi.com/

http://bit.ly/kijeUc

DIAMOND JUBILEE...

LONDON: To mark The Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012, John Walker & Sons,

Scotch Whisky Distillers By Appointment to Her Majesty The Queen, is to produce

an extremely limited edition of 60 crystal decanters of 'Diamond Jubilee

Blended Scotch Whisky by John Walker & Sons', a unique blend of whiskies

distilled in 1952 and finished in a marrying cask of English oak from The

Queen's Sandringham Estate.

http://bit.ly/lUNige

MESSAGING SOLUTIONS...

TORONTO: Acision, a world leader in mobile data, today announced that

Canadian carrier WIND Mobile, is deploying Acision's advanced messaging and

reporting solutions.

http://www.acision.com/

http://www.windmobile.ca/

http://bit.ly/l2OcWM

DISASTER PREVENTION...

DHAKA, Bangladesh: Deutsche Post DHL will conduct its "Get Airports Ready

for Disaster" (GARD) training at the Dhaka and Chittagong airports in

Bangladesh in June, preparing both airports and personnel for the post-disaster

logistics situation.

http://bit.ly/lukmsN

RISK MANAGEMENT OFFERING...

CHICAGO: RTS Realtime Systems Group, a leading global trading solutions

provider, today announced the introduction of RTD GUARD, a fully hosted,

multi-layer risk management offering.

http://www.rtsgroup.net/

http://bit.ly/iJBSHq

WATER AWARD...

STOCKHOLM: Nestle has been named the winner of the Stockholm Industry Water

Award for its leadership and performance to improve water management in its

internal operations and throughout its supply chain.

http://www.siwi.org/stockholmindustrywateraward

http://bit.ly/iQkSAW

NETWORK VISIBILITY...

ROSELAND, New Jersey: Expand Networks, the leader in optimising WANs for

branch office consolidation and virtualisation, today announces that Triton

Express has successfully increased visibility and control over its network

traffic with Expand Networks' Accelerators.

http://www.expand.com

http://www.tritonexpress.co.za/homepage.html

http://bit.ly/k8ewh1

DEBT FUND...

NEW YORK: Stone Harbor Investment Partners LP ("Stone Harbor"), a global

fixed-income investment firm focused on credit risk strategies and asset

allocation and one of the world's leading institutional emerging markets debt

managers, announced today the launch of the Stone Harbor Emerging Markets

Corporate Debt Fund ("The Fund"), a Dublin based, UCITS III fund.

http://bit.ly/ikC6Ek

BREAST CANCER CONFERENCE...

HAMILTON, Ontario, Canada: Today launches the sixth World Conference on

Breast Cancer in Hamilton, Canada.

http://www.wcbcf.ca/

http://www.scotiabank.com/

http://bit.ly/mD1HIn

SECURITIES REDEMPTION...

WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae (OTC Bulletin Board: FNMA) will redeem the principal

amounts indicated for the following securities issues on the redemption dates

indicated below at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal

amount redeemed, plus accrued interest thereon to the date of redemption.

http://bit.ly/iZwUYj

PARTNERSHIP ANNOUNCED...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa: PUMA announced today it has entered into a new

partnership with the South African Football Association. The global

sportlifestyle brand has become the official technical supplier to the SAFA,

effective immediately and lasting beyond the next two FIFA World Cups(TM).

http://www.puma.com/football

http://vision.puma.com/

http://www.digitalnewsagency.com/

http://www.puma.com/

http://bit.ly/lzjZ9J

AGENCY AGREEMENT...

ROCKVILLE, Md.: Neuralstem, Inc. (NYSE Amex: CUR) announced that it has

signed an exclusive agency licensing agreement with Summit Pharmaceuticals

International Corporation, of Tokyo, Japan (SPI), a wholly owned subsidiary of

Sumitomo Corporation Group.

http://www.neuralstem.com/

http://bit.ly/ltpquS

ENGINEERING SUCCESS...

NEW YORK: CD-adapco would like to congratulate the Panther Racing Team and

JR Hildebrand on their second place finish in the Greatest Spectacle in Racing

- the Indianapolis 500.

http://bit.ly/lzo6C0

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ASSETS...

NEEDHAM, Mass.: Streambank, LLC announced that it has been engaged to sell

the intellectual property assets of Berkline BenchCraft Holdings, LLC.

http://www.berkline.com/

http://www.benchcraft.com/

http://www.streambankllc.com/

http://bit.ly/jBqsIV

SLOT MACHINE GAMES...

MAHWAH, N.J.: This week in Macau, High 5 Games will showcase a number of its

new top-performing slot machine games at the Global Gaming Expo Asia (G2E Asia).

http://bit.ly/molV5n

ZYPR PLATFORM...

NOVI, Mich.: Telematics Detroit - INRIX(R), the leading international

provider of traffic information and driving services, announced an agreement

with Pioneer(R) Corporation to provide both real-time and predictive traffic

data solutions for Pioneer's new, voice-controlled, integrated Web services

platform - Zypr(TM).

http://www.inrix.com/

http://bit.ly/jWkpv6

CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER...

DENVER: Behre Dolbear Group has appointed Mr. Karr McCurdy Executive Vice

President and Chief Operating Officer of the renowned minerals advisory firm.

Mr. Bernard Guarnera, now President and Chairman, will remain head of the

corporation until December 31, 2011, when Mr. McCurdy will become President and

CEO.

http://www.dolbear.com/

http://bit.ly/lW5SnJ

MUSIC CATALOG...

HOLLYWOOD, Calif.: ICAP, the world's premier interdealer broker and provider

of post trade risk and information services, announces today the completed

acquisition of Los Angeles-based Moving Pictures Film & TV.

http://bit.ly/k8cG3Z

APPROVAL GIVEN...

TULSA, Okla.: Omni Air International (Omni) receives US Department of

Defense (DOD) Commercial Airlift Review Board (CARB) approval to provide

B777-200ER passenger airlift services for the DOD.

http://bit.ly/ipjRfD

NATURAL E3...

SINGAPORE: Davos Life Science (DavosLife) announced today that its Natural

e3 delta-tocotrienol (Natural e3) is now available in Japan and Korea.

http://www.davoslife.com/

http://bit.ly/kTfdkT

INFORMATION SOURCES...

TOKYO: comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital

world, today released a study on the use of various Japanese media sources in

the aftermath of the March earthquake and tsunami disaster based on data from

the comScore MobiLens and comScore Media Metrix services.

http://www.comscore.com/companyinfo

http://bit.ly/lGeGGJ

Orphan Drug Designation...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.: Edison Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today the

United States Food and Drug Administration has granted orphan drug designation

to EPI-743 for treatment of inherited mitochondrial respiratory chain diseases.

http://bit.ly/jFNW1D

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