SYDNEY, Nov. 21--AsiaNet/InfoQuest FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of one securities issue amounting to a total of US$25million on November 28, 2005 at a redemption price equal to 100per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. http://www.fanniemae.com AVIATION CONFERENCE... NEW YORK: Xiamen, China, has been selected to host AviationWeek Group's MRO Asia Conference & Exhibition, September 19-21,2006. www.aviationnow.com YOKOHAMA TIRE... FULLERTON, Calif: Yokohama Tire Corporation has signed amulti-year agreement designating the global tire producer asthe "Official Tire of the Los Angeles Auto Show". Thesponsorship deal begins with the 2006 LA Auto Show held Jan.6-15 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. www.yokohamatire.com PEPSICO DIVIDEND... PURCHASE, N.Y: The Board of Directors of PepsiCo todaydeclared a quarterly dividend of 26 cents per share on PepsiCocommon stock. The dividend is payable January 3, 2006 toshareholders of record on December 9, 2005. www.pepsico.com FUTURESTEP EXPANDS... LOS ANGELES, Calif. and SINGAPORE: Futurestep, therecruitment outsourcing subsidiary of Korn/Ferry International,announced that it has expanded its global footprint to NewDelhi, India. www.futurestep.com DATAMAX APPOINTMENT... ORLANDO, Fla: Mark Bjerkestrand has assumed responsibilityas Chief Operating Officer of Datamax InternationalCorporation. www.datamaxcorp.com FEMALE CONDOMS... CHICAGO, Ill: Women across the world may soon benefit from acheaper second-generation version of the female condom -- theFC2 Female Condom(TM) -- if global public health providersagree to partner on bulk purchases. www.femalehealth.com SAVIENT PHARMA... SAN DIEGO, Calif: Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. hasannounced that patients with elevated blood uric acid levelsand treatment-resistant gout who were treated with itsinvestigational drug Puricase (PEG-uricase) had substantial andsustained reduction in plasma urate levels, according to studyresults presented at the American College of Rheumatology 2005Annual Meeting. MILLENNIUM BULLIONFUND... TORONTO: The Millennium BullionFund, Canada's first and onlyopen-end mutual fund trust that invests in gold, silver andplatinum bullion, now offers a new class of units for globalaccredited investors. www.bmsinc.ca FEI COMPANY... HILLSBORO, Ore: FEI Company has completed the first Japaneseinstallation of its DA 300HP DualBeam system for automatedin-fab defect analysis extendable to the 45nm design node. www.feicompany.com MCI AWARD... SINGAPORE: MCI, Inc. has announced that its Asia PacificCall Centre in Singapore has been recognized for the secondconsecutive year as Best-in-Class by the Call Centre Council ofSingapore (CCCS) at the 5th Annual Call Centre awards. JAPANESE FURNITURE... TOKYO: The Total Interior Promotion Center of Okawa isparticipating in the "Kyushu-Fukuoka Fair in Shanghai"Exhibition held to commemorate the opening of the KyushuShanghai representative office. www.kisc.co.jp/tipco/ (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)