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.
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