SYDNEY, April 18--AsiaNet/InfoQuest CME ENHANCES... CHICAGO: CME, the largest U.S. futures exchange, announcedit is enhancing its strategic planning and corporatedevelopment capabilities by naming Ann Shuman and Kendal Vromanas Co-Heads of Corporate Development. Scott Robinson, whocurrently serves as Managing Director, Corporate Development,is leaving CME to pursue other business interests. http://www.cme.com PRICING SERVICE... LONDON: ICIS-LOR, the global price reporting and marketintelligence service for the chemicals and energy industry,launched a real-time Price Alert Service for polyethylene (PE)and polypropylene (PP) covering key markets in Asia, Europe andthe US. The latest PE and PP price movements and news will betracked as they happen and help customers respond to marketdevelopments. http://www.icis.com http://www.reedbusiness.co.uk FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae is issuing 2 year benchmarknotes (TBD coupon) with a pricing date of April 20, 2005, asettlement date of April 22, 2005 and a maturity Date of May15, 2007. The issue size is US$3.0 billion with payment datesbeing each May 15th and November 15th, beginning May 15,2005. http://www.fanniemae.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of FINS securities issues amounting to a total ofUS$13.828 million on April 25, 2005 at a redemption price equalto 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. Fannie Mae will also redeem the principal amount ofMTN securities issues to a total of US$150 million on April 27,2005. http://www.fanniemae.com NEWS DISTRIBUTION... HAMBURG: The Polish News Agency PAP, Warsaw, has ordered asystem for the distribution of news from the German firm mecom,Hamburg. The system named "mecom-newsPIPE" uses satellite andInternet communication for the distribution of text, pictures,graphics and data to customers of the news agency. http://www.mecom.de http://www.newspipe.biz http://www.pap.pl http://www.vsat.pl BREAST CANCER... BASEL: Roche and Genentech, Inc., announced that Avastin incombination with chemotherapy, significantly improvesprogression-free survival in patients with previouslyuntreated, metastatic breast cancer. This is in addition to thepositive survival benefit with Avastin observed in advancedcolorectal cancer and the recently announced data in locallyadvanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer. http://www.roche.com http://www.gene.com http://www.health-kiosk.ch (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)