SYDNEY--2 Nov--AsiaNet/InfoQuest VERIZON BUSINESS... BASKING RIDGE, New Jersey: Reinforcing its position as aleader in the global carrier Ethernet market, Verizon Businesshas announced the expansion of its Ethernet Virtual PrivateLine International service from the United States to sixcountries and territories in the Asia-Pacific region. www.verizon.com www.verizonbusiness.com www.verizon.com/news IXEO SELECTED... ZURICH: IXeo Interactive Travel SA, the global tourismgateway, announced that it has been chosen by the Global HotelAlliance, the new hotel alliance for luxury hotels and resorts,to build and operate the company's website with a completedynamic packaging & tailored booking solution launched on the27th of October. www.globalhotelalliance.com VXI TECHNOLOGY... IRVINE, California: VXI Technology, Inc. announces therestructuring of its organization into four distinct businessunits. www.vxitech.com ALCAN LAUNCHES... MONTREAL: Alcan has launched its global Indigenous Peoplespolicy, a critical component within Alcan's commitment tostakeholder engagement. www.alcan.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae announced that it has repurchasedexpired European-style (one-time) callable debt securities. Thetender offers began Monday, October 23, 2006, and closed at5:00 EDT, Friday, October 27, 2006. Fannie Mae disclosedpreliminary results on Monday, October 30, 2006. Today'sresults are final and are available on Fannie Mae's website. www.fanniemae.com PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT... OVERLAND PARK, Kansas: The Federation of Societies forCoatings Technology (FSCT) and Chemidex have announced apartnership to develop enhanced web capabilities for FSCTMembers throughout the world through a special gateway toChemidex's Paint & Coatings Cybrary. www.chemidex.com www.coatingstech.org FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$75million on November 13, 2006 at a redemption price equal to 100per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. www.fanniemae.com ACQUISITION ANNOUNCED... NEW YORK: Duff & Phelps, one of the world's leadingindependent financial advisory firms, announced that it hasacquired Chanin Capital Partners, a specialty investment bankwith a leading position advising stakeholders in distressedsituations. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. www.duffandphelps.com www.chanin.com SYMBOL UNVEILS... CHICAGO: Symbol Technologies, Inc., The Enterprise MobilityCompany, has unveiled the industry's first radio frequency (RF)wireless switch that bridges the gap between Wi-Fi, RFID andother key RF technologies. www.symbol.com www.symbol.com/wireless ATMEL ANNOUNCES... SAN JOSE, California: Atmel Corporation has announced threenew 20-pin tinyAVR Flash microcontroller devices withhigh-speed timers targeting battery chargers, sensor end-pointsand motor control applications. www.atmel.com www.atmel.com/products/avr/ www.atmel.com/dyn/products/devices.asp?family_id=607 MASTERCARD REPORTS... PURCHASE, New York: MasterCard Incorporated has announcedfinancial results for the third quarter of 2006. The companyreported net income of US$193 million, or US$1.42 per share.Net revenues for the quarter were US$902 million, a 13.9 per centincrease versus the same period in 2005. www.mastercard.com INVESTMENT EDUCATOR... LONDON: International investment educator/adventurer, NikHalik is visiting London to change the way Baby BoomingLondoners think about investing and life. www.themoneymasters.co.uk CONSULTING SERVICES... IRVINE, California: Ground Zero Pharmaceuticals, Inc., aregulatory affairs and product development consulting company,has added additional expertise in clinical protocoldevelopment, study auditing and pharmacogenomics. www.groundzerous.com JAPAN MISSION... BEVERLY HILLS, California: Nancy Krasne, a PlanningCommissioner and 2007 candidate for City Council in BeverlyHills, California, has announced that she will visit Kyoto,Yokohama and Tokyo, Japan on a personal fact finding missionNovember 1 through 15. CIPATE 2007... HONG KONG: Held in Beijing during May 17-19, 2007, the 2ndChina (Beijing) International Exhibition and Symposium onPolice Equipment and Anti Terrorism Technology and Equipment(CIPATE 2007) has received good support from Hong Kong TradeDevelopment Council by endorsing a Hong Kong Pavilion. At thesame time, the event further reinforced its authoritativeposition from the participation of internationally renownedcompanies. www.verticalexpo.com www.cipate.com www.cipate.com/press SURVEY REVEALS... MACCLESFIELD: A survey of more than 330 oncologists andurologists from around the world reveals a lack of awarenessand understanding of the clinical benefits of Combined AndrogenBlockade therapy for the management of advanced prostatecancer. www.astrazenecapressoffice.com www.astrazeneca.com www.prostateline.com www.casodex.net LONE STAR... DALLAS: Lone Star Funds expressed its deep disappointment atthe actions taken by the Korean Supreme Prosecutors Office(SPO). As reported in the press, the SPO has sought to arrestand detain four persons related to Lone Star, including itsVice Chairman, Ellis Short; its general counsel, MichaelThomson; the current head of its Korean affiliate, Paul Yoo;and its former head, Steven Lee. LICENSING AGREEMENT... SYDNEY: MobileActive Limited, a global mobile phone contentand entertainment provider, has announced the expansion of itsmusic content library signing an Australian licensing agreementwith the world's leading music company, Universal MusicGroup. www.mobileactivecorporate.com DIGITAL BEIJING... BEIJING: The Beijing City Government's Information Officeand EMC Corporation have signed a Memorandum of Understandingto collaborate on the city government's "Digital Beijing"initiatives. Over the next few years, the city of Beijing willcollaborate with EMC to build a state-of-the-art informationinfrastructure that will ultimately house the city's digitalassets. www.emc.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.)