SYDNEY--8 Jun--AsiaNet/InfoQuestLOUIS VUITTON... TOKYO - Louis Vuitton, world leader in luxury goods stagedits women's pret a porter show outside Paris for the first timein Tokyo on June 7th 2006. http://easyshare2.oodrive.com COURT CASE... PORTLAND, Ore. - In a ground-breaking decision, a Federaljudge in Portland, OR, ruled today that a child sex abuse caseagainst the Vatican (Holy See) may proceed. http://www.andersonadvocates.com WORLD CUP... ST-ETIENNE - France striker Djibril Cisse's dreams ofappearing in the World Cup hang by a thread after he badlyinjured his right leg in a warm-up match against China in SaintEtienne. BENCHMARK REMIC... WASHINGTON - Fannie Mae said it intends to issue its firstBenchmark REMIC during the week of June 19, 2006. Bear, Stearns& Co. Inc., Lehman Brothers Inc. and UBS Securities LLC, willbe the joint lead managers. http://www.fanniemae.com NEW DEVICE... ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. - Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. ispleased to announce that Stanford R. Ovshinsky, its President,Chief Scientist and Technologist, at a press conferencediscussed a fundamentally new device, called the Ovonic QuantumControl, which has the potential to open a whole new field ofsemiconducting control devices. http://www.ovonic.com SEA RESCUE... SEATTLE, WA. - At 5:44 a.m. local time on Tuesday, June 6,the ms Noordam rescued 22 people from the Aegean Sea in watersbetween Turkey and Greece. http://www.hollandamerica.com DUPONT PRODUCT... WILMINGTON, Del. - New DuPont Ti-Pure R-902+ is an advancedtitanium dioxide product that provides superior dispersion andexcellent hiding power over a wide range of coatings systems. http://www.titanium.dupont.com http://www.titanium.dupont.com/R902plus PELLETS PRICE... RIO DE JANEIRO - Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, the world'slargest iron ore and pellets producer, concluded thenegotiations for the 2006 direct reduction pellets price withAcindar - Industria Argentina de Aceros SA and NU-IronUnlimited. http://www.cvrd.com.br MOTOROLA INDIA... CHENNAI - In keeping with its strong commitment to India,Motorola announced plans for a manufacturing facility with aninitial investment of US$30 million. http://www.motorola.com SHIPPING REGISTRY... ATHENS - The Cayman Islands Shipping Registry announcedMonday the re-launch of its operations in Greece with astrengthened, dedicated team based in Athens and theintroduction of full-line services for commercial shipping. http://www.gov.ky FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of 1 securities issues amounting to a total of US$25million on June 17 at a redemption price equal to 100 per centof the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com SYMBOL TECHNOLOGIES... PARIS - Symbol Technologies, Inc., The Enterprise MobilityCompany, announced that the low-priced fashion chain KiabiEurope have deployed Symbol's enterprise mobility solutions inits stores and warehouses to help improve their logisticaloperations. http://www.symbol.com VOIP CALLS... SAN DIEGO - Qualcomm Incorporated announced it hassuccessfully demonstrated the full mobility of high-quality,high-capacity voice over Internet protocol calls acrossmultiple test environments, including mobile, pedestrian andfixed, enabling operators to migrate voice services to Internetprotocol-based platforms for a common service platform. http://www.qualcomm.com SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIP... AUGSBURG - The quest for another soccer championship willbegin this coming June 7 in Germany: soccer fans that cannotfollow the exploits of their national team in a German stadiumwill have the opportunity to take part in winning thecompetition for championship fan nation as the games unfold. http://www.fanhunter.de SINGAPORE ART... SINGAPORE - Singapore's inaugural international biennale ofcontemporary art will open to the public on 4 September 2006. http://www.singaporebiennale.org/artists.php MEDIA RELATIONS... SINGAPORE - The National Arts Council has appointed RuderFinn to be the agency managing international media relationsservices for the Singapore Biennale 2006. http://www.nac.gov.sg http://www.singaporebiennale.org http://www.universes-in-universe.de/english.htm NCIRCLE PRODUCT... SAN FRANCISCO - nCircle announced that its vulnerabilitymanagement product, nCircle IP360, now offers detectioncapabilities for Winny, a P2P file-sharing software popular inJapan. http://www.ncircle.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)