SYDNEY--7 Mar--AsiaNet/InfoQuest ACCOUNTING CONFERENCE.. MELBOURNE: Over 250 people are expected to attend the National Institute of Accountants (NIA) inaugural one-day Malaysian conference, on 26 April 2006, at the Carlton Conference Centre in Kuala Lumpur. www.nia.org.au CVRD PERFORMS... RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil: 2005 was CVRD's third consecutive year of multiple operational and financial records. http://www.cvrd.com.br RADWIN WINS... TEL AVIV: RADWIN, a leading provider of advanced wireless broadband solutions, today announced that it has won a $2 million deal to supply its WinLink 1000 broadband wireless solutions to one of the biggest service providers in India operating a nationwide network. http://www.radwin.com ASSETS MERGED... VANCOUVER: La Mancha Resources Inc., and Areva Monday announced that they have agreed on certain terms to combine the international gold producing and exploration assets of Areva located in Australia, Sudan and Caci?te D'Ivoire with La Mancha's Argentina exploration assets, in exchange for Areva receiving 83,175,000 La Mancha common shares and 7 million warrants to purchase La Mancha common shares at an exercise price of CAD$2.00, expiring on the second anniversary of closing of the transaction. www.lamancharesources.com DARBY APPOINTS... WASHINGTON: Emerging markets investment firm Darby Overseas Investments, Ltd., the private equity and mezzanine finance arm of Franklin Templeton Investments, announced that Michael Barth will join the senior management of the firm on March 15, 2006 as Managing Director -- Global Investment. http://www.darbyoverseas.com http://franklintempleton.com MARKET LEADERSHIP.. MELBOURNE: Vision Fire & Security (VFS) has announced the completion of its sale by Vision Systems to Pacific Equity Partners Pty Ltd (PEP), marking an exciting new era of continued growth and expansion into new markets. www.vision-fs.com COMPUTER SUPPORT... HOLTSVILLE, N.Y.: Symbol Technologies, Inc., The Enterprise Mobility Company, Monday announced that mobile computing product purchases with "Service from the Start" contracts will now include all repairs for the entire device, including accidental damage to displays and keypads, at no additional cost. http://www.symbol.com INNOCENTIVE CONFERENCE... CHANDIGARH: InnoCentive Monday announced that its annual conference was held at the Indian government's National Institute for Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), in Chandigarh, Punjab, on Saturday, March 4, 2006. http://www.innocentive.com MUSICAL LANGUAGE... NEVADA CITY, Calif.: ColorCode Music introduces a 21st century, computer-interactive musical language/instructor that was originally designed to simplify the process of identifying and locating notes for guitar, for faster learning and easier understanding of the complex logic of music ht tp://www.colorcodetechnologies.com WOMEN'S DAY... LONDON: Wednesday 8 March will see millions of women around the world from Alaska to Zambia celebrate International Women's Day. http://www.InternationalWomensDay.com PROCESSING CENTER... WILTON, Conn.: Startech Environmental Corporation, a fully reporting company, Monday announced that Mihama corporated has completed the commissioning of its new, state-of-the-art, 5 ton-per-day Plasma Converter Processing and Technology Center to safely and irreversibly destroy PCBs and PCB contaminated materials http://www.startech.net GM SELLS... DETROIT: General Motors Corp. Monday announced it would reduce its equity stake in Suzuki Motor Corp. from 20.4 percent to 3.0 percent, by selling 92.36 million shares. http://media.gm.com http://www.gm.com 100TH ANNIVERSARY... BASEL: A very special event is coming up shortly: 11 March 2006 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Zino Davidoff -- the founder of the now world-renowned brand that stands for cigar pleasure of the highest order. http://www.davidoff.com RISK SOLUTION... MUMBAI, India: Reveleus, a business of i-flex solutions and a global provider of analytical applications for the financial services industry, announced the availability of version 4.0 of the Reveleus Operational Risk Solution. ht ttp://www.iflexsolutions.com FASHION WEEK... PARIS: The house of Louis Vuitton, with Marc Jacobs as Artistic Director closed fashion week in Paris with its Fall Winter 2006-07 collection in the prestigious halls of the Petit Palais. AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions. --Distributed by AsiaNet ( www.asianetnews.net )--