SYDNEY, Jan 13--AsiaNet/InfoQuest COTECNA NIGERIA... GENEVA: Cotecna, the international trade facilitation andinspection group, is commencing this month in Nigeria itsscanning and risk management operations for the NigerianGovernment as part of the country's move to a modernDestination Inspection (DI) regime. www.cotecna.com WEBSITE LAUNCH... MANHASSET and NEW DELHI: CMP- CyberMedia LLC Friday launchedhttp://www.globalservicesmedia.com, a website dedicated toglobal technology and business services sourcing. The GlobalServices website is the first initiative towards buildingpowerful media solutions connecting the global buyers andsellers of business and technology services. http://www.cmp.com http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com http://www.ciol.com http://www.globalservicesmedia.com KANBAY STRENGTHENS... ROSEMONT: Kanbay International, Inc. (Nasdaq: KBAY), aglobal IT services firm focused on providing solutions to thefinancial services industry, Thursday announced the addition ofMark Fowler as a new regional insurance expert in its GlobalInsurance Practice, the company continues to grow its insurancepractice with the addition of six new insurance clients in2005. http://www.kanbay.com DOCTORS AWARD... PHILADELPHIA and LONDON: Researchers from Harvard Universityhave lead the pack in clinical medicine research by earning thehighest number of citations over the past decade, according toa study published in the January/February issue of ScienceWatch - the bimonthly newsletter published by ThomsonScientific, a business of The Thomson Corporation. http://www.scientific.thomson.com http://www.thomson.com W.P. STEWART... HAMILTON: W.P. Stewart & Co., Ltd. announced Thursday animpairment of customer related intangible assets and stated itwill be taking a non-recurring, non-cash charge against fourthquarter and full-year 2005 earnings of approximately $12.5million, or $0.27 per share (diluted), related to its 1999acquisition of NS Money Management (Bermuda) Limited("NSMM"). http://www.wpstewart.com OCEAN-LINER MILESTONE... VALENCIA: On February 22, 2006 luxury ocean liner Queen Mary2 will make her maiden call to Los Angeles and unite for thefirst time with her namesake, the Queen Mary, in nearby LongBeach. www.cunard.com www.queenmary.com ASIC CHARGES... SYDNEY: PA was not aware of charges against Cameron Morrisrelating to his time at BearingPoint Australia until theafternoon of the 12 January, ASIC is investigating. ALCAN CLOSURE... SIERRE: Alcan Inc. (NYSE, TSX: AL) announced Thursday thatit will initiate the closure process for its 44kt per year Stegprimary aluminum smelter and the cessation of anode production,both expected to be completed by the end of April 2006. MICROSOFT MAP... BANGALORE: During its annual research symposium, TechVista2006, Microsoft Research India Thursday demonstrated the firstprototype of a multilingual interactive digital map of India. http://www.microsoft.com/ http://research.microsoft.com/india http://www.microsoft.com/presspass on http://www.local.live.com RECORD AIRTRAFFIC... FRANKFURT: Fraport AG (FRA) completed 2005 with a new recordfigure for passenger traffic, reporting that a total of52,219,412 passengers used Frankfurt Airport (FRA), an increaseof 2.2 per cent on the 2004 record year. http://www.fraport.de SCIENCE PRIZE... TOKYO: The Science and Technology Foundation of Japanannounced the names of two laureates for the 2006 (22nd) JapanPrize Thursday - U.K. scientist, Sir John Houghton CBE FRS, inthe prize category of "Global Change" and Dr. Akira Endo ofJapan in the prize category of "The development of NovelTherapeutic Concepts and Technologies" http://www.japanprize.jp/English.htm (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)