SYDNEY--9 Dec--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
DESIGN MERGER...
NEW YORK: Top international design and architecture firms Perkins Eastman and Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects (EE&K) are pleased to announce that they have agreed to merge their practices.
www.perkinseastman.com
http://bit.ly/gSth3o
INNOVALIGHT CHINA...
SHANGHAI: Innovalight, Inc., a privately-held company selling silicon ink and advanced solar cell process technology, today announced the launch of its Chinese language website which is accessible at http://chinese.innovalight.com.
www.innovalight.com
http://bit.ly/ijgcHr
AVESTHAGEN TRIAL...
BANGALORE: AVESTHAGEN LIMITED, a leading knowledge based life sciences company pioneering the convergence between Food, Pharma and Population Genetics, today announced the completion of manufacturing of the clinical grade material of its first biosimilar molecule- AVDESP(TM) (biosimilar to Darbepoetin alfa), which will now be moving into Clinical Trials.
http://bit.ly/hMLQ1h
CICC STAKE...
BEIJING: KKR, TPG, Government of Singapore Investment Corporation Pte Ltd ("GIC"), and The Great Eastern Life Assurance Company Limited ("Great Eastern Life") have received all required regulatory approvals for the purchase of Morgan Stanley's stake in China International Capital Corporation ("CICC").
http://bit.ly/gdeeXZ
MARQUETTE TEXTIQUETTE...
MILWAUKEE: Marquette University communication professors have found that there are emerging interpersonal norms in text messaging behavior among college-age students in the United States and India - and those standards differ considerably between the two countries. Robert Shuter ( http://www.marquette.edu/comm/grad/shuter.shtml ), a professor of communication studies in the Diederich College of Communication who led the study, calls the largely unstudied area of text messaging behavior "textiquette."
http://bit.ly/hHn5m3
HBA EXPO...
NEW YORK: HBA Global Expo (http://www.hbaexpo.com) is seeking speaker proposals for its renowned educational program taking place June 28-30, 2011 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York.
http://www.hbaexpo.com
http://bit.ly/hkBYmm
MIG33 LAUNCH...
PARIS and SINGAPORE: mig33, the world's largest mobile-first community, today launched mig33 for Android, a much-anticipated, feature-rich version of the mobile social entertainment service that has already attracted more than 40 million registered users worldwide - and a version that radically widens mig33's opportunity for future growth.
http://www.mig33.com
http://bit.ly/hKIgD0
PIERS EXPANSION...
NEWARK: PIERS (http://www.piers.com), the standard in trade intelligence, today announced its latest expansion of trade intelligence services, now offering global import and export data for seven additional Latin American countries: Panama, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua.
http://www.piers.com
http://www.ubmglobaltrade.com
http://bit.ly/fuIZUB
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/fr1X4y
SAVVIS DAY...
ST. LOUIS: Savvis, Inc. (Nasdaq: SVVS), a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises, today announced its guidance for full year 2011.
http://bit.ly/f9e8Hz
INFORMEX PHARMA...
PRINCETON and INGELHEIM: Informex, the leading meeting place for buyers and sellers of high-value chemistry for a broad range of applications, and CMS Pharma, the trusted M&A and corporate strategy advisor for the Custom Manufacturing industry, today announced the first annual CEO Summit of Pharma Manufacturing, to be held in Charlotte, North Carolina, on February 6th 2011, one day prior to the opening of the annual flagship InformexUSA event.
www.informex.com
SWEDISH ALLERGIES...
UPPSALA: New guidelines on diagnosis and management of food allergy issued by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases a part of NIH, supports a broader use of blood test to improve current clinical practice.
http://www.phadia.com
http://bit.ly/eKkJoD
BCG EUROPE...
LONDON: Effective immediately Beijing Gingko Group (BGG) has appointed Premium Ingredients International Europe (PII) exclusive distributor of their range of Liquorice Extracts & Derivatives for the Food, Beverage and Cosmetic industries across Europe.
http://www.premiumingredients.co.uk
http://www.gingkogroup.com.cn
http://bit.ly/e1dyVN
BTG PACT...
SAO PAULO, RIO DE JANEIRO, LONDON, NEW YORK and HONG KONG: BTG Pactual, Brazil's leading investment bank, today announced the signing of an agreement with a consortium of prestigious international investors.
http://bit.ly/i3aBe4
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