SYDNEY, Jan. 30--AsiaNet/InfoQuest ASSET MANAGER... BURLINGTON: Charles River Development, a leading provider offinancial software and services to the global investmentmanagement community, announced that Daiwa SB Investments Ltd.(Daiwa), a leading Japanese asset management company, hasselected the Charles River Investment Management System(Charles River IMS) to monitor more than US$31 billion inassets under management. http://www.crd.com GLOBALSTAR ANNOUNCES... MILPITAS, Calif.: Globalstar, a world leader in providingmobile satellite voice and data services to business, announcedthat its independent gateway operator in Korea, DACOMCorporation, plans to offer simplex, or one-way, data servicesto Globalstar customers throughout Korea, much of SoutheastAsia, parts of China, as well as the Western Pacific and Sea ofJapan maritime regions. http://www.globalstar.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$200million on February 8, 2006 at a redemption price equal to 100per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. http://www.fanniemae.com ALCAN RESULTS... MONTREAL: Alcan Inc. has identified charges related to thepreviously announced restructuring of its packaging business,the write down of associated goodwill, asset impairments, andthe previously announced closure of two smelters in Europe. STREAMING VIDEO... LAS VEGAS: Las Vegas-based company VMdirect, online atwww.vmdirect.com, reported a strong fourth quarter led to arecord-breaking year in which the company's quarterly revenuerose 385 per cent in 2005; which was a result of a 222 per centincrease in active direct-sales affiliates; a 165 per centincrease in active customers. http://www.vmdirect.com OFFICIAL REOPENING... KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian National News Agency (BERNAMA)will officially reopen its bureau in Bangkok, Thailand thisweek. The Minister of Information, Datuk Seri Panglima AbdulKadir Haji Sheikh Fadzir will launch the bureau as follows: Date: Thursday, February 2nd, 2006 Time: 10.30 am Venue: Dusit Thani Hotel, Bangkok (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)