SYDNEY--31 Jan--AsiaNet/ InfoQuest
CHINA CEO...
AMSTERDAM: The Tommy Hilfiger Group announces the appointment of Mr. Steve
Chen as Chief Executive Officer of Tommy Hilfiger China, effective immediately.
http://www.tommy.com/
http://www.pvh.com/
http://bit.ly/fcXKGG
DOMAIN NAMES APPROVED...
LONDON: Telnic Limited, the registry operator for the .tel top level domain
(TLD), today announced that, following the ICANN board meeting conducted in
January 2011, ICANN has now approved the release of both short (such as jj.tel)
and numeric-only (such as 442074676450.tel or 88.tel) .tel domain names for
registration.
http://telnic.tel/
http://telnic.org/
http://bit.ly/f2JNeJ
LIVE BROADCAST...
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia: For the first time ever, the SPIEF website,
www.forumspb.com, streamed a live broadcast from Davos, Switzerland, of a
Plenary Session featuring Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, and a special
session organized by the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum and the
World Economic Forum, which included Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor
Shuvalov.
http://bit.ly/fkJm0E
NOW ACCEPTING...
TOKYO: With the 3rd Okinawa International Movie Festival set to be held on
March 18, 2011, we are inviting submission of video footage for a short-film
competition, dubbed "Worldwide Laugh," which is a new genre of "Comedy Movie
Content" that Yoshimoto Kogyo sends out to the world.
http://info.nicovideo.jp/wwl/
http://geinin2.jp/
http://www.oimf.jp/
http://bit.ly/gQSVrx
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/hd6lnm
BENCHMARK NOTES...
WASHINGTON: The following is being issued by Fannie Mae (OTC Bulletin Board:
FNMA).
http://bit.ly/fIHPfc
POLIO ERADICATION...
DAVOS, Switzerland: Citing dramatic gains achieved with polio vaccines,
Prime Minister David Cameron, Bill and Melinda Gates call on world leaders to
finish the job.
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/
http://bit.ly/fq9MEy
MONTHLY SUMMARY...
WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae's (OTC Bulletin Board: FNMA) December 2010 Monthly
Summary is now available at http://www.fanniemae.com/ir/monthly. The monthly
summary report contains information about Fannie Mae's monthly and year-to-date
activities for our gross mortgage portfolio, mortgage-backed securities and
other guarantees, interest rate risk measures, and serious delinquency rates.
http://bit.ly/efOmY1
MOBILE INTERNET ISSUES...
DAVOS, Switzerland: NetQin Mobile Inc., a global leader in mobile security
services, today announced that the Company's CEO & Founder, Dr. Lin Yu,
participated in an interactive discussion of "What does the world really need
to know about modern China?" at World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2011 in
Davos, Switzerland from January 26 to 30, 2011.
http://www.netqin.com/en
http://bit.ly/hFtZlV
FOUNDATION LAYING...
CHENGDU, China: Ground-breaking ceremony will be held in Chengdu Hi-tech
Zone on January 29, 2011. In terms of production, according to the agreement
between Lenovo and Chengdu Hi-tech Zone, this project, with designed annual
production capacity of ten million PCs, will start production in late 2011.
http://bit.ly/hop2B2
PATENT ISSUED...
LONDON: PensionDCisions announced today that the U.S. Patent & Trademark
Office has issued patent no. 7,844,527, "Method and System for Measuring
Investment Performance".
http://www.pensiondcisions.com/
http://bit.ly/gXoG6Y
ONLINE PICKUP...
LONDON: Badoo.com, the world's largest and fastest-growing "social dating"
site, today announces that it has passed the milestone of 100 million users.
http://www.badoo.com
http://bit.ly/hOaOvT
WONDERCOOL!...
COPENHAGEN: Winter-cold Copenhagen turns into a land of Wondercool when a
unique collaboration brings music, gastronomy, design and fashion to the public
during February.
http://www.wondercool.dk/
http://bit.ly/hid0CY
ICC APPEAL...
BANGKOK and TOKYO: Today lawyers acting on behalf of the Red Shirt
pro-democracy movement are presenting a petition to the International Criminal
Court (ICC) in The Hague requesting prosecutors to open an inquiry into the
situation in the Kingdom of Thailand relating to the alleged commission of
crimes against humanity during the April/May crackdown of last year.
http://www.thaiaccountability.org/
http://www.robertamsterdam.com/thailand
http://bit.ly/g9VXzK
EXCLUSIVE BUYOUT...
LONDON: Tourico Holidays(R) announced today that it will be the exclusive
provider of 100 percent of the inventory at The Hyde Park Hotel in London. The
agreement, which begins February 15, 2011, will allow Tourico Holidays the
exclusive ability to offer its customers attractive deals on the elegant
three-star hotel in the Westbourne Grove area of London, within walking
distance of Hyde Park.
http://www.touricoholidays.com/
http://www.travelholdings.com/
http://bit.ly/gFlqeC
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