SYDNEY, Aug. 17--AsiaNet/InfoQuest BRITRAIL PASSES... LONDON: BritRail Wednesday announced that anyone buying a BritRail Consecutive Pass, BritRail FlexiPass or BritRail England Pass in the next 6 weeks gets an extra day's travel free. http//:www.BritRail.com CORONARY STENT... MIAMI, Fla.: Three studies in this week's editions of the premier peer-reviewed journals New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association support the clinical benefits and safety profile associated with the CYPHER Sirolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent compared to the Taxus stent. http://www.nejm.org http://jama.ama-assn.org PREFERRED DESIGNER... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Gibbs & Cox, Inc. Wednesday announced that the company has been chosen by the Australian government to be the preferred designer for the Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) Program. http://www.gibbscox.com EMBRAER DELIVERS... SAO JOSE DOS CAMPOS: Embraer Wednesday announced the delivery of three specially configured Legacy Executive aircraft to the government of India, which ordered five airplanes of the model, and holds options on two more. http://www.embraer.com.br ENSR PROMOTES... KUALA LUMPUR & WESTFORD, Mass.: Allan Sandosham, PE, QEP, has been promoted to Regional Sales Director, Asia for ENSR International, and is based in ENSR's Kuala Lumpur office. http://www.ensr.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of one securities issue of US$25.662 million on Aug 26, 2005 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com SINOBOND SELECTS... SANTA CLARA, Calif.: Tvia, Inc., a leading provider of multimedia digital display processors for advanced TV, emerging digital display and consumer electronics markets, Tuesday announced Sinobond has selected the Tvia LCD-TV Reference Design based on Trueview 5600 chipsets for all of their LCD-TVs aimed at both the European and North American markets. www.tvia.com ALLIANCE FORMED... REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. & TOKYO: Saba, a leading provider of human capital management (HCM) solutions, Tuesday announced an alliance with Business Learning Bank (BLB), a human resource development outsourcing service, to provide comprehensive turnkey learning systems to enterprises in Japan. http://www.saba.com http://www.blbank.jp MCI EXPANDS... ASHBURN, Va.: MCI, Inc. Tuesday announced it is expanding Internet DSL access services in Asia Pac and into the Middle East. http://www.mci.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)