SYDNEY, Nov.24--AsiaNet/InfoQuestTHAI DISTILLERY... BANGKOK: The Thai Life Group signed an agreement withGinebra San Miguel, Inc., a listed subsidiary of San MiguelCorporation, to form a new joint venture distillery businessfor the Thai market.DATES CONFIRMED... WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae announced its defined dates forissuing Benchmark Bills and noncallable Benchmark Notes in2005. As previously announced in July of 2004, the companyretains the option of electing to forego any monthly scheduledBenchmark Securities issuance. http://www.fanniemae.comFANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of three securities issues amounting to a total ofUS$200 million on various dates at a redemption price equal to100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. http://www.fanniemae.comHANDSET ANTENNA... BARCELONA: Telecoms antenna developer Fractus starteddeliveries of the first handset antenna using its patentedFracPlane technology, which enables a combined antenna andground plane height of just 3.2mm. http://www.fractus.comFRESH AIR... SYDNEY: Reckitt Benckiser has launched Air Wick Decospherein New Zealand, a dome-shaped liquid air freshener.CHEVRONTEXACO PROJECT... JAKARTA: ChevronTexaco confirmed today that a finalinvestment decision has been reached by its Indonesianaffiliate to expand the Darajat geothermal power project bybuilding a new 110 MW generating unit in Garut, West Java.ChevronTexaco Energy Indonesia Ltd (CTEI) operates 100 per centof the geothermal resource. http://www.chevrontexaco.comSINGTEL EXPANDS... SINGAPORE: Singapore Telecommunications Limited and KPN, oneof Europe's telecommunications service providers, announcedtoday a significant expansion of their IP-VPN MPLS networkcoverage through a distribution agreement. http://www.singtel.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)