SYDNEY--12 Oct--AsiaNet/ InfoQuest
ISRAEL POLITICS...
NEW YORK: OneVoice Israel brought top Israeli figures from across the
political spectrum to engage the public in conversation about the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict at Tel Aviv's Cinematheque Plaza on Tuesday.
www.onevoice.org.il
http://bit.ly/pgTcOe
DIGITAL PRINTING...
ROSH-HA'AYIN, Israel: Kornit Digital, the world leader of industrial and
commercial digital printing, superior pigmented ink and unique chemistry
solutions for the textile industry, today announced that it will showcase its
new Kornit Storm II industrial Direct-To-Garment printer at the SGIA event to
be held in New Orleans, October 19-21 2011.
http://bit.ly/rdoVC3
www.kornit-digital.com
BUSINESS AWARDS...
LAS VEGAS: Best Manufacturer/ Wholesaler Award Announced for 2012 Business
Excellence Awards
www.actioncoach.com/businessforum2012
http://bit.ly/o6WXP3
CUSTOMER SERVICE...
LAS VEGAS: Best Customers Service Results to Be Awarded at 2012 Business
Excellence Awards
http://bit.ly/pFA62C
BEST SERVICE...
LAS VEGAS: Call for Entries Announced for Best Service Based Business at
2012 Business Excellence Awards.
http://bit.ly/obFGny
BEST COMPANY...
LAS VEGAS: Who Will Be Best Overall Company at 2012 Business Excellence
Awards?
http://bit.ly/nG3Dnq
AIR PACIFIC...
NADI: Air Pacific today reconfirmed that it has suspended one of its
employees as the result of an on-going internal investigation that uncovered
unauthorised access and removal of sensitive Air Pacific confidential documents
which included: individual pilot and flight attendant salaries; individual
employee contracts; Board material; and other sensitive financial and
commercial documents.
www.airpacific.com/About-Us/News
http://bit.ly/mT4UUe
CALL ENTRY...
LAS VEGAS: ActionCOACH Announces Call for Entries for 2012 Business
Excellence Awards
http://bit.ly/qA1Uk3
PUMA DOCO...
LONDON: Today PUMA.Creative and the Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation announced
"The End of the Line" as the winner of the inaugural PUMA.
http://bit.ly/pN3rNN
NEW LOCATION...
SAN DIEGO: BioSurplus announced today that it has opened a new location in
Incheon, South Korea.
www.BioSurplus.com
http://bit.ly/pPSvKi
BIZ HOURS...
WEST HOLLYWOOD: Allied Wallet, the premiere global E-commerce payments
solution specialists, has announced extended hours (24x7) starting today to
service impacted AlertPay customers with its 24 hour turn around underwriting
process.
http://bit.ly/qx65UF
CURRENCY DEAL...
SEOUL: Pure Commerce, an international payment solutions provider, today
announced that it has signed an agreement with Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) to
provide multi-currency pricing (MCP) services to online merchants in South
Korea. This is the first time MCP services have been made available in the
South Korean market.
http://bit.ly/oGlrUh
AUCTION EVENT..
SYDNEY: Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (NYSE and TSX: RBA), the world's largest
industrial auctioneer , is returning to Sydney for the first time since 2006 to
conduct a multi-million dollar equipment auction on October 20, 2011. The
auction is open to the public and unreserved - every item is sold with no
minimum bids or reserve prices.
www.rbauction.com/au
http://bit.ly/rjW9oU
STAFF ATTRITION...
NEW YORK: Global market research firm ORC International today announces the
launch of engage for leavers, a versatile new survey product that allows
organizations to easily evaluate the views and opinions of workers leaving
their employment.
http://bit.ly/nWURNn
COFFEE LOVERS...
MISSOULA: Wellington based Coffee Supreme is one of very few roasters
internationally that has access to the Cup of Excellence(R) award winning
coffees for 2011.
http://bit.ly/mPntb0
PAKISTAN BANKING...
WASHINGTON: Financial services have traditionally been out of the reach of
people in poor and remote areas in Pakistan.
http://bit.ly/p9pjqu
NEPAL REPORT...
BRUSSELS: Nepalese paint bleak picture of economic and political conditions
in their country -- high hopes placed in the benefits of stronger regional
cooperation.
http://bit.ly/r70729
TEASER TRAILER...
GENEVA: A house, a child, a locked wooden chest, an old notebook
rediscovered, a key ... what secret awaits? For the time being, we remain in
the dark.
http://bit.ly/pR2yd1
DRILLING...
MONTREAL: Colt Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that it has received
final analytical results for five holes from its ongoing drilling campaign at
its Tabua
o (So Pedro das ?guias) tungsten project, located in the Company's wholly owned
Armamar-Meda concession in northern Portugal.
http://bit.ly/qd9omO
JAPAN AWARDS...
TOKYO The award ceremony for the CEATEC JAPAN Innovation Awards "As Selected
by U.S. Journalists", which is comprised of an independent advisory panel of
U.S. IT journalists who select significant technologies and concepts, was held
on October 6th during CEATEC JAPAN 2011 held at Makuhari Messe.
http://bit.ly/oHQ6F1
OPERATING SYSTEM...
REDWOOD CITY, California: NComputing, the global leader in end-to-end
desktop virtualization solutions, today announced breakthroughs in the
performance and economics of VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructures) with the
release of vSpace Server 6.5 desktop virtualization software.
http://www.ncomputing.com
http://bit.ly/pHR9AE
FOREX APP...
NEW YORK, LONDON, and SYDNEY: FOREX.com, the retail division of GAIN Capital
Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GCAP), has launched FOREXTrader for iPad, providing
customers with the ability to trade and manage their accounts and access real
time charts, news and commentary on Apple's top selling tablet device.
www.forex.com
http://bit.ly/qBbu4a
YOUTHS, DRUGS...
FRANKFURT: The Youth in Europe (YIE) drug prevention programme has released
research tracking the incidence of smoking (daily), drinking and cannabis
experimentation amongst 15 to 16-year-old students in Iceland from 1998 to
2011. And the results are astonishing.
http://bit.ly/p3ZZ3R
RECYCLED RINGS...
HOUSTON: greenKarat(R) announced that it has received third-party
certification of recycled content. This is the first third-party certification
of a jewelry retailer.
http://bit.ly/ojBUKv
INDIA WEEK...
HAMBURG: For the fourth time since 2007, Hamburg will be celebrating the
city's close and friendly relations with India as this year's India Week
Hamburg 2011 will be taking place from 16 to 23 October. Today, Mr Wolfgang
Schmidt, State Councillor and Hamburg's Delegate for Federal, European and
Foreign Affairs, and Ms M. Subashini, India's Consul General in Hamburg,
presented the programme of events to the public.
http://bit.ly/rcZmBE
DRILLING...
CALGARY: PetroFrontier Corp. is pleased to announce that it has successfully
drilled Baldwin-2Hst1, Australia's first horizontal well in the Lower Arthur
Creek "Hot Shale" Formation in the southern Georgina Basin in the Northern
Territory, Australia. Baldwin-2Hst1 is located in the southwestern part of EP
103 in the Southern Georgina Basin.
http://bit.ly/oTOB5L
AIR CHINA...
BEIJING: The new service will bring the number of Japanese cities served by
Air China up to 8 and the number of round-trip direct flights a week between
the two countries up to 260. The other 7 Japanese cities are Tokyo, Osaka,
Nagoya, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Sendai and Sapporo.
http://bit.ly/pdIQ0K
CHINA OFFICE...
SHANGHAI: Neapco Holdings today announced the launch of its Asia Business
Office in Shanghai, China, as part of an ongoing expansion to serve the global
demands of its customers and suppliers worldwide.
http://bit.ly/pvFuAa
LAO OFFICE...
TOKYO: NTT Communications Corporation announced on October 11 that its
subsidiary NTT Communications (Thailand) Co., Ltd. has begun operating a branch
office in Laos, named the NTT Communications Vientiane Representative Office.
http://bit.ly/ngrDCr
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