SYDNEY--17 Oct--AsiaNet/InfoQuestCBL SELECTED... SINGAPORE: CBL Data Recovery Technologies Inc. has announcedthat CBL has been selected as the data recovery servicespartner for HP in Australia, China, India, Singapore andTaiwan. http://www.cblpartners.com http://www.cbltech.ca SUGHRUE PARTICIPATES... WASHINGTON: Sughrue Mion PLLC, a leading global intellectualproperty law firm, announced on Tuesday that they willparticipate, together with China-based law firm KangxinPartners PC, in a three-day mock trial seminar in Chinasponsored by the State Intellectual Property Office of thePeople's Republic of China (SIPO). http://www.sughrue.com SAUNOA IDOL... SYDNEY: Online betting agency Centrebet says that MattSaunoa is odds on to be crowned the new NZ Idol. http://www.centrebet.com QUINTILES LAB... RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.: Quintiles Transnational Corp.has announced a plan to open a central lab in Mumbai, India,further expanding the company's global network of labs thatsupport global and regional clinical trials. http://www.quintiles.com RADIO HISTORY... COLUMBIA: WIYY-FM 97.9 in Baltimore, Maryland, made historywhen it became the 1,000th station in the United States tobroadcast with digital HD Radio technology. http://www.ibiquity.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of an MTN securities issue amounting to a total of US$50million on October 26, 2006 at a redemption price equal to 100per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. http://www.fanniemae.com PINGO ENHANCED... BURLINGTON: iBasis, the global VoIP company(TM), todayannounced major enhancements to Pingo(R) (http:/ www.pingo.com ), its online prepaid calling card service. http://www.ibasis.com http://www.daviesmurphy.com http://www.sec.gov DOTMOBI SCHEDULES... DUBLIN and WASHINGTON: dotMobi, the official worldwideregistry for the .mobi domain, has scheduled its first auctionof premium names for October 27, 2006. http://www.dotmobi.mobi http://dotmobi.mobi/registrar http://pc.blog.mobi http://www.targetedtraffic.com FABRIC FILTERS... COLOGNE, Germany and COPENHAGEN: Activated lignite made byRWE Power AG will be used as adsorbent in fabric filters forwaste gas cleaning in two public refuse incineration plants onthe Faroe Islands, a part of Denmark. http://www.hok.de NEUREN ANNOUNCES... SYDNEY: Neuren Pharmaceuticals Ltd has announced that itsthird lead candidate from its diketopiperazine family,NNZ-2591, has reported positive preclinical effects of improvedlearning and memory after oral dosing. http://www.neurenpharma.com KENFAIR PRESENTS... HONG KONG: Presented by Kenfair International, the "15thHong Kong International Toys & Gifts Show" and "14th AsianGifts Premium & Household Products Show" will once again beheld this year at the Hong Kong Convention and ExhibitionCentre from 20-23 October. http://www.kenfair.com MELCO MOU... HONG KONG: Melco PBL Entertainment has announced that it hasentered into a Memorandum of Understanding and will shortly beentering into a formal contract to engage The Leighton-ChinaState-John Holland Joint Venture as the main contractor for itsflagship resort and entertainment project -- City of Dreams,currently being constructed in Cotai, Macau. http://www.hardrock.com http://www.dragone.be http://www.pbl.com.au/ http://www.melco-group.com ARROW RANKED... HONG KONG: Arrow Electronics, Inc. has announced that itranked 37th on the 2006 InformationWeek 500, a prestigiouslisting of the most innovative users of information technologyin the United States. http://www.informationweek.com/iw500/ (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)