SYDNEY--23 May--AsiaNet/ InfoQuest
TV CHANNEL...
LONDON: WorldTV.com today officially launches its TV Channel and Web Video
Publishing Platform.
http://worldtv.com
http://bit.ly/mTe7d9
CONTRACT AWARDED...
LUTON, England: Elster (NYSE: ELT) announced today that the Macao Water
Supply Company has selected Elster to supply up to 26,000 V100 volumetric water
meters and 600 meters out of Elster's bulk water meter portfolio, including the
innovative Q4000, over the coming year.
http://www.elster.com/
http://bit.ly/jKcb8e
MAJORITY STAKE...
LONDON: Actis, the pan-emerging markets private equity investor, has reached
an agreement with GAS NATURAL FENOSA, a leading multinational in the gas and
electricity sector, to acquire a group of companies dedicated to the
transportation and supply of electricity to 1.4m customers in Guatemala in a
transaction worth US$345m plus assumed debt.
http://www.act.is/
http://www.gasnaturalfenosa.com/
http://bit.ly/joQOwu
PARTS AGREEMENT...
WICHITA: Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. (NYSE: SPR) and Scandinavian Airlines
(SAS) announced the signing of a supply agreement whereby Spirit will supply
spare parts for SAS' fleet of Boeing 737 aircraft.
http://www.spiritaero.com/
http://bit.ly/j7QPOT
TEN YEARS...
BERLIN: On the ten-year anniversary of its founding, CIS thin-film pioneer
Sulfurcell will be renamed Soltecture.
http://bit.ly/jeRDcA
CHARITY EDITION...
MAASTRICHT, The Netherlands: The special Rolex Hillary Tenzing Explorer
number 88/88 was sold for $104,568 at the Christie's auction at Hotel des
Bergues in Geneva.
http://www.hillarytenzingexplorer.com/
http://bit.ly/kum29r
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/iO2YVD
TELECOM AWARD...
DELHI: Elitecore, the leading provider of telecom software (OSS / BSS)
solutions, announced that it's been awarded the 5th CMAI National Telecom Award
on the occasion of World Telecom Day for its next generation OSS / BSS platform.
http://www.elitecore.com/telecompractices
http://bit.ly/ktBWBO
REGULATORY APROVAL...
LAKE FOREST, Ill.: Hospira, Inc. (NYSE: HSP), a leading provider of clinical
information and medication delivery technologies, today announced that the
company has received regulatory approval from Health Canada for its software
upgrade to the Symbiq(TM) infusion system
( http://www.hospira.ca/english/symbiqinfusionsystem.aspx ).
http://www.hospira.com/
http://bit.ly/iFb2VN
CELEBRATING PARTNERSHIP...
PARIS: Rafael Nadal, Kim Clijsters, Andy Roddick, Na Li and Jo-Wilfried
Tsonga. All the grand champions responded to the invitation from Babolat, who
today celebrated its return to Roland-Garros as official supplier, 24 years
after having been the official stringer of the tournament.
http://www.babolat.com/#/tennis/us
http://bit.ly/jb7Tqv
QUALITY OF LIFE...
GOTHENBURG, Sweden: Results of a new analysis from the largest-ever
morbi-mortality study of treatments for chronic heart failure show that the
heart rate lowering agent Procoralan(R) (ivabradine) significantly improves
health related quality of life.
http://bit.ly/m3gvHL
INDIVIDUAL FREEDOMS...
KUWAIT CITY: Today His Highness Sheikh Fahad Al Salem Al Ali Al Sabah
launched the first of its kind two-day forum, Renewing Dialogue for Peace and
Advancing Freedom and Human Rights in Today's World, sponsored by The Fahad Al
Salem Center for Dialogue Among Civilizations and Defense of Liberty (The
Center).
http://www.fahadcenter.org/
http://bit.ly/jxnIBu
ASIAN UNIVERSITY RANKINGS...
LONDON: Japan is the best-represented nation, with five of the top 10 and 57
of the top 200 universities, ahead of China (40) and South Korea (35), Taiwan
(16), India (11), Thailand (9), Indonesia (8), Malaysia (7) and Hong Kong (7) -
13 countries represented, with Bangladesh and Pakistan as new entries.
http://bit.ly/lqP0Ej
NUMBER ONE...
LONDON and HONG KONG: Sucden Financial has been voted #1 Broker Overall in
Base Metals, Asia Pacific 2011 by AsiaRisk, the magazine for risk and
derivatives professionals.
http://www.sucdenfinancial.com/
http://bit.ly/iULAay
GEOLOCATION TO FACEBOOK...
PARIS: Kinomap, the only video-sharing platform in the world to offer
synchronized video-map playback, is announcing the integration of its
geolocated videoplayer into Facebook.
http://www.kinomap.com/
http://bit.ly/ighFC4
NEW MEMBER...
LONDON, PARIS and SINGAPORE: NYSE Liffe announced that UOB Bullion and
Futures (UOBBF), the Singapore-based futures broker, has become a member of
NYSE Liffe's London and Paris markets.
http://www.nyx.com/
http://bit.ly/jFKR4W
BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS...
SYDNEY, Australia: Starpharma Holdings Limited (ASX:SPL, OTCQX:SPHRY) today
announced successful results of a major phase 2 clinical study that
demonstrated efficacy of VivaGel(R) for the treatment of bacterial vaginosis
(BV).
http://www.starpharma.com/
http://bit.ly/iIykqp
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