SYDNEY--18 Oct--AsiaNet/InfoQuest SYSTEMS LAUNCHED... SANTA CLARA: AKT, an Applied Materials company has announceda new suite of flat panel display systems for manufacturinglarge size LCD* TV screens on the world first Gen 8.5 (2.2m x2.5m) glass substrates. http://www.appliedmaterials.com GFI PARTNERS... NEW YORK: "GFI Group Inc., a leading inter-dealer broker andColliers International, a leading real estate consultancy, havepartnered in a Hong Kong property derivatives joint venture. http://www.GFIgroup.com http://www.colliers.com AGREEMENT EXPANDED... SEOUL: Alteon Training, a wholly-owned subsidiary of TheBoeing Company has announced the expansion of the trainingagreement in place with Asiana Airlines today. http://www.alteontraining.com BYTEMOBILE DEPLOYED... MOUNTAIN VIEW: Bytemobile, Inc., the global leader indynamic optimization solutions for mobile data networks,announced on Wednesday that SmarTone-Vodafone has partneredwith Interactive Technology Limited to deploy Bytemobile'sOptimization Services Node in the launch of network-wide HSDPAcoverage in Hong Kong, as announced on June 6, 2006. http://www.bytemobile.com http://www.ithlgroup.com MCB LISTED... LONDON: The London Stock Exchange has welcomed its MCB BankLimited to its markets - the first company from Pakistan to belisted on the exchange. LCD-TVS SHIPPED... SANTA CLARA: Tvia, Inc., a leading provider of digitaldisplay processors for advanced flat-panel TVs, broadcastdigital DVRs, consumer displays, and monitor products, hasannounced that Ya Hsin Industrial Company Ltd. is now shippinga line of LCD-TVs based on Tvia LCD-TV designs using TrueView5600 digital display processors. http://www.tvia.com/ http://photoarchive.ap.org PORTABLE BREAKTHROUGH... SUNNYVALE: Telegent Systems, Inc., a leader in advanced RFand digital signal processing technologies for Mobile TV incellular phones and other portable media devices, announced onWednesday a breakthrough in the area of Mobile TV solutions. http://www.tsmc.com http://www.telegent.com PROMUS APPROVED... NATICK: Boston Scientific Corporation announced on Wednesdaythat the PROMUS everolimus-eluting coronary stent system hasreceived CE Mark approval, making Boston Scientific the onlycompany to offer two distinct approved drug-eluting stentplatforms in the CE geographies. http://www.bostonscientific.com SOLERA SELECTED... SAN RAMON: Solera announced on Wednesday that AmericanFamily Mutual Insurance Company has selected Audatex, a SoleraCompany, as its vehicle direct repair claims management andtechnology partner. http://www.audatex.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae announced on Tuesday that itwill make an application to list securities on the EuroMTFmarket of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. http://www.fanniemae.com GAMES SUPPORTED... SHANGHAI: China Construction Bank and Bank of AmericaFoundation announced on Tuesday that they will jointly supportthe 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games scheduled forOctober 2-11, 2007 in Shanghai. http://www.bankofamerica.com http://www.ccb.com http://www.specialolympics.org WESTINGHOUSE SOLD... CHESHIRE: British Nuclear Fuels plc celebrated on Tuesdaythe completion of the sale of the Westinghouse nuclear businessto the Toshiba Corporation. CONFERENCE ANNOUNCED... WASHINGTON: Roberto David de Steele y Vivas, former spy,founder of the USMC Intelligence Command, 1 Amazon reviewer fornon-fiction, and CEO of OSS.Net, Inc., is pleased to announcethe 15th international conference on Information Operations,Open Source Intelligence, and Peacekeeping Intelligence. http://www.oss.net http://www.oss.net/BASIC http://www.oss.net/LIBRARY http://www.oss.net/FAILURE http://www.oss.net/HOPE http://www.oss.net/MIOC http://www.oss.net/IO FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of two securities issues amounting to a total of US$60million on October 27, 2006 at a redemption price equal to 100per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. http://www.fanniemae.com SECURITY EXPANDED... MANSFIELD: Verano, Inc., the SCADA security company,announced on Tuesday that it has expanded the worldwidedistribution network for its security event managementsolution, Industrial Defender, with the addition of six newresellers in EMEA and Australia. http://www.verano.com MEGA MACAO... HONG KONG: Kenfair International Limited has announced itsfirst-ever trade fair in Macao -- "Mega Macao" -- will belaunched in October 2007 at the Venetian Macao Convention &Exhibition Center, the city's largest exhibition venue to beopened in 2007. http://www.kenfair.com HAWAII OPEN... HONOLULU: One day after being rocked by an earthquake Hawaiiis letting the world know that it is open and ready forbusiness. http://GoHawaii.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)