SYDNEY--11 Jan--AsiaNet/InfoQuest ONLINE GAMING... BEIJING: Beijing Perfect World Thursday announced that despite fiercecompetition within the online gaming industry, the company has enjoyed rapidgrowth thanks to the launch of its three self-developed products, all of whichhave been made available to overseas markets. http://www.wanmei.com/en/wanmei.htm http://www.w2i.com.cn I-GAMING MARKET... ST. CHARLES, Mo.: River City Group is bringing i-gaming companies togetherto diminish the cultural gap between East and West and capture their mostsought after market: Asia. http://www.rivercitygroup.com http://www.rivercitygroup.com/pcig PODSHOW AGREEMENT... SAN FRANCISCO, and LAS VEGAS: PodShow, the No. 1 new media network, Thursdayannounced an agreement with Advanced Micro Devices to deliver an optimizedversion of PodShowTV for the AMD LIVE! Entertainment Suite. http://www.podshow.com RADIAN ANNOUNCES... PHILADELPHIA: Radian Group Inc., a global credit risk management company,Thursday announced that Roy Kasmar has decided to step down as head of theInternational Mortgage business, effective April 1, 2007, and will remain as astrategic advisor to Radian through the end of the year. http://www.radian.biz PHARMACEUTICAL SUMMIT... NEW YORK: ALM's Strategic Research Institute is organising "IMPACT INDIA:Pharmaceutical R&D Global Summit" in New Delhi, India February 4-7, 2007 thatwill bring together pharma and biotech executives from around the world togather strategic information and network amongst each other to facilitate newinvestment and foster new partnerships in India. http://www.srinstitute.com http://www.srinstitute.com/india http://www.alm.com BENCHMARK NOTES... WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae on Wednesday priced the New Issue of US$3 billion10-Year Benchmark Notes that will mature on February 13, 2017. http://www.fanniemae.com PANACEA APPOINTS... GAITHERSBURG, Md.: Panacea Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Wednesday announced theappointment of Pamela Harris, MD, as Vice President Medical and ClinicalAffairs. http://www.panaceapharma.com CLINICAL TRIAL... ROCHESTER, N.Y.: Bio-Optronics, a workflow solutions company, announcedWednesday the launch of Clinical Conductor, a new Clinical Trial ManagementSystem for practitioners of clinical research. http://www.bio-optronics.com FRAGMENT LIBRARY... SAN DIEGO: ChemBridge has assembled an exemplary collection of smallmolecules useful for fragment-based screening: the new Fragment Library. http://www.chembridge.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.)