SYDNEY, Jan. 21 --AsiaNet/InfoQuest HEALTH RESEARCH... NEW DELHI: Ujjal Dosanjh, Canadian Minister of Health, and Dr. Alan Bernstein, President of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Friday announced two major initiatives to further collaboration in health research between Canada and sub-continental South Asia. http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca GLOBAL ASSOCIATION... SUNNYVALE, Calif.: The International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association (IDEMA USA) and its subsidiary, IDEMA Asia-Pacific, have combined operations with IDEMA Japan to form one global organization, IDEMA. http://www.idema.org WELL RESULTS... ADELAIDE: Santos Limited advises that testing operations conducted by its wholly owned subsidiary, Santos (Sampang) Pty Ltd, have been completed on the Jeruk 2 wellbore and the well will now be suspended for re-entry at a later date. CONSTELLA ACQUIRES... DURHAM, N.C.: Constella Group, LLC, a rapidly growing professional health services company based in the U.S., Thursday announced that it has acquired Futures Group, Inc., an international leader in providing public health and social programs for developing countries. http://www.constellagroup.com http://www.futuresgroup.com LAWSUIT FILED... NEW YORK: A federal lawsuit was filed against Marubeni America Corporation, a Japanese general trading company based in New York, by Thompson Wigdor & Gilly LLP, on behalf of two Senior Vice Presidents and General Managers that alleges MAC engages in rampant discrimination against American and other employees on the basis of their race, color, and/or gender and has engaged in intimidation and committed serious financial fraud. http://www.twglawyers.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of seven securities issues amounting to a total of US$754.284 million on Jan 31, 2005 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com REVENUE PLATFORM.. TEL AVIV: cVidya Networks, a leading provider of next generation Revenue Assurance solutions, Thursday announced that Israel's largest national communications carrier Bezeq, has selected cVidya MoneyMap Revenue Assurance platform for its data networks and services. http://www.cvidya.com http://www.bezeq.co.il FAST EXPANDS... OSLO: Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), the leading developer of enterprise search and real-time alerting technologies, Thursday announced the recent establishment of new offices in Dubai, Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore and Rio de Janeiro. http://www.fastsearch.com MCI ACQUIRES... ASHBURN, Va., and HERNDON, Va.: MCI, Inc. and NetSec, Inc., a privately-held provider of managed security services, Thursday announced an agreement under which MCI will acquire NetSec, Inc., for about $105 million in cash. http://www.netsec.net http://www.mci.com NEW SERVICE... TOKYO: Yamaha Corporation has begun to provide a new service for mobile phones in China using Yamaha's SMAF (Synthetic music Mobile Application Format), a mobile phone content standard. (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)