SYDNEY--11 Sep--AsiaNet/InfoQuestLUSIGHT PUBLISHES... NEW YORK: Lusight Research has published a pre-IPOevaluation of China Merchant Bank, a Chinese nationalcommercial bank that is scheduled to list H-shares on the HongKong Exchange and currently has A-shares listed on the ShanghaiStock Exchange. FTSE CONFIRMS... LONDON: FTSE Group, the award-winning global index provider,has confirmed the results of the September review of theFTSE4Good global index series. http://www.ftse.com/ STEEPLE PUBLISHED... PARIS: The New England Journal of Medicine Publishes theSTEEPLE Study Which Demonstrated Superior Safety Profile ofLOVENOX (Enoxaparin Sodium Injection) Vs. UnfractionatedHeparin in Patients Undergoing Non-Emergent PercutaneousCoronary Intervention http://www.lovenox.com SIPEX APPOINTS... MILPITAS: Sipex Corporation today announced the appointmentPierre Guilbault, Dan Casey and Alan Krock to its Board ofDirectors. http://www.sipex.com REVERA PURCHASES... SUNNYVALE: ReVera Incorporated, the materials metrologycompany, has announced the purchase of its VeraFlex metrologysystem by the Crolles2 Alliance, a landmark partnership amongsemiconductor manufacturers Freescale, STMicroelectronics andPhilips. http://www.revera.com VALVES REMOVED... CINCINNATI: Because of a risk of strut fracture that couldresult in death or serious injury, all Bjork-ShileyConvexo-Concave Heart Valves were removed from the market bythe manufacturer. http://www.bowling-pfizer.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae has announced the release ofnew 2-Year Benchmark Notes on which Barclays Capital Inc., Bancof America Securities LLC, and J.P. Morgan Securities, Inc. arethe joint lead managers, and the reopening of 10-Year BenchmarkNotes. http://www.fanniemae.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of two securities issues amounting to a total ofUS$1,250,000,000 million on July 16, 2007 and March 20, 2008 ata redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principalamount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com EURAND ANNOUNCES... MILAN and VANDALIA: Eurand, a specialty pharmaceuticalcompany, and the Controlled Release Society announced onFriday, the winners of the 2006 Eurand Award Program, whichhonors innovation in oral drug delivery. http://www.eurand.com RELIGIONS SUPPORTED... NEW YORK: At a packed workshop on inter-religious dialogueand cooperation at the UN Headquarters, Mr. Leslie Gatan,Minister of the Permanent Mission of the Philippines to the UN,described how the level of support for interfaith efforts aimedat building peace has dramatically increased since 9/11. (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)