Sydney--17 Aug--AsiaNet/InfoQuest LICENSE HELD... SHANGHAI: In a joint venture with Vantage Hospitality (USA),Martin Soran, CEO of China's Best Value Inn and Lexington HotelCompany, Ltd. Shanghai, PRC, will hold the master license tomarket and sell these two hotel brands throughout greaterChina. http://www.LexingtonCollection.com http://www.americasbestvalueinn.com ROADSHOW PRESENTED... HONG KONG: On September 14, the Brazilian capital marketwill present a roadshow for institutional investors, brokersand traders in Hong Kong. http://www.bestbrazil.org.br http://www.bovespa.com.br SINGAPORE ROADSHOW... SINGAPORE: On September 12, the Brazilian capital marketwill present a road show for institutional investors, brokersand traders in Singapore. http://www.bestbrazil.org.br UNITED CORRECTS... RIYADH: United Food Company has issued a clarification to anannouncement made last month saying that although a currentagreement is in place for Pizza Inn to have a "user pays"outlet in the Main Media Centre, Pizza Inn is not the appointedor preferred pizza supplier for the 2006 Asian Games, as statedin previous announcements. http://www.pizzainn.com GATE APPOINTS... RESTON: Gate Gourmet, the world's largest independentairline catering and logistics company, has appointed Mark E.Wall as President of its Asia/Pacific division and Group SeniorVice President, effective immediately. http://www.gategourmet.com INTERNET EXPANDS... MONTREAL: The rapidly growing Internet TV News Network,Internet Broadcast Corporation, formerly known as MediaScrape, has released new navigationexpanding access to world television news. http://www.ibctoday.com EURAIL MANAGES... UTRECHT: The Eurail Group G.I.E. will take on the managementof the Inter Rail pass products from 01 April 2007. This wasdecided during the Eurail Full Assembly and Board meetings heldin Stockholm from June 20-21st by the main European railwaycarriers. http://www.Eurail.com http://www.eurail-acprail.com http://www.flightcentre.com http://www.gta-travel.com http://www.raileurope.com http://www.raileurope.fr/wheretobuy EVEL REPRESENTED... WEST ORANGE: World Icon Evel Kneivel has chosen to berepresented for all marketing deals by New Jersey based firm,Prince Marketing Group. http://www.princemarketinggroup.com AIDS FOUGHT... TORONTO: XVI International AIDS Conference, Toronto, August13-18, 2006 Program leaders from Bristol-Myers Squibb, NewYork, and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, on Thursdayoutlined innovative medical care, treatment and research andsocial support strategies to fight HIV/AIDS among infants andchildren in impoverished areas of sub-Saharan Africa. http://www.bms.com HOUSE REOPENED... NEW ORLEANS: Archie Manning, two-time Pro Bowl quarterbackfor the Saints and father of current NFL quarterbacks Peyton(Indianapolis Colts) and Eli (New York Giants) led thecelebration of the New Orleans Ronald McDonald House grandreopening Thursday, less than one year after the House nearlybeing destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. http://www.rmhc.org FRANKLIN JOINS... BURLINGTON, N.J. and HONG KONG: Franklin ElectronicPublishers, Inc., a world leader in handheld referenceproducts, and Keysbond Ltd. of Hong Kong, an electronicsdevelopment and manufacturing concern, has announced a jointventure relationship by which the companies will incorporateand jointly own Embedded Linguistic Solutions (HK) Ltd., a newsoftware development company based in Hong Kong. http://www.franklin.com NDL CUSTOMISES... SUNNYVALE: NDL (Next Generation Digital Library), iscurrently customizing visualization software from InxightSoftware of Sunnyvale, Calif., the leading provider ofenterprise software solutions for information discovery, intoinnovative products for the Korean market, including Websitesitemaps, human resource management tools, real-estateresearch, even photo "trees" for photographers. http://www.inxight.com EXPLOSIVES DETECTED... CHRISTCHURCH: The Voice100, from New Zealand company SyftTechnologies, has the capability to instantly detectperoxide-based explosives. (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)