SYDNEY--24 Jan--AsiaNet/InfoQuest MARUBENI AND... CALGARY - Sea NG Corporation announced that Marubeni Corporation and TeekayShipping Corporation have formed a strategic alliance with Sea NG for theworldwide commercial deployment of Sea NG's Coselle system for transportingcompressed natural gas (CNG) by ship. http://www.coselle.com http://www.marubeni.com http://www.teekay.com VENTRACOR WINS... SYDNEY - Ventracor announced the award of an AUD $2.8 million CommercialReady Grant from the Australian Federal Government to fund further developmentof the VentrAssist left ventricular assist device (LVAD). www.ventracor.com DUTCH NEWSPAPER... ZAANDAM - A new free-distribution Dutch newspaper has selected WoodWingSoftware's Smart Connection Enterprise as its editorial system, joiningnumerous other newspapers around the world that are switching to theindustry-leading editorial solution. http://www.woodwing.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C. - Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of threesecurities issues amounting to a total of US$117.456 million on February 2,2009 and March 2, 2021 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of theprincipal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com RAYTHEON NAMES... ARLINGTON, Va. - Raytheon Company has named retired U.S. Navy Admiral WalterF. Doran President of Raytheon Asia for Raytheon International Inc. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070123/CLTU023 http://www.raytheon.com RAYTHEON NAMES... ARLINGTON, Virginia - Raytheon Company has named retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen.Paul T. Mikolashek President of Raytheon Middle East/North Africa/Pakistan forRaytheon International Inc. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070123/CLTU021 http://www.raytheon.com CVRD ANNOUNCES... RIO DE JANEIRO - Companhia Vale do Rio Doce hereby announces that its SeniorManagement has approved and will submit to the Board of Directors a proposalfor dividend payment of US$ 1.65 billion to shareholders in 2007. http://www.cvrd.com.br LIQUIDNET RESULTS... NEW YORK - Liquidnet, the #1 electronic global marketplace for blocktrading, announced its 2006 results today, finishing the year with two majordistinctions: #1 broker for global trading based on transaction cost savings;and #1 broker for clearing and settlement for European equities. http://www.liquidnet.com EXECUTIVE SEARCH... SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - Nosal Partners LLC -- the Executive LeadershipSolutions firm, Alexander Hughes and the Strategic Executive Search (SES) Groupannounced a global strategic alliance. http://www.nosalpartners.com http://www.alexanderhughes.com http://www.sesasia.com BRIAN TAMBI... CHICAGO, Ill. - A new pharmaceutical company named BrianT Laboratories LLCheadquartered in Lake Forest, IL, USA has been formed with Brian Tambi asChairman, CEO and President, a group of health care investors announced. QUADREM EXPANSION... PERTH and BRISBANE - Quadrem, the Global eMarketplace, has hired CarlMitchell-Turner to lead its growing business in Australia. In 2006 more thanUSD$13.4 Billion purchase orders flowed through the supplier network's platformand revenues grew at more than 20 per cent. http://www.quadrem.com NORKOM LAUNCHES... SYDNEY - Norkom Technologies launches its new risk-based customer duediligence (CDD) solution designed to enable financial services organizations'to effectively comply with today's stricter and more stringent worldwide 'KnowYour Customer' regulations as outlined in the US PATRIOT ACT, the 3rd EU MoneyLaundering directive, Australia's AML/CTF Act, the OFSI B8 guidelines and theFATF 40 recommendations. www.norkom.com INFRAGISTICS OPENS... TOKYO - Infragistics, the largest publisher of reusable presentation layerdevelopment tools for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, Tablet PC and Java, announces theopening of their newest local office in Tokyo, Japan, as a subsidiary ofInfragistics, Inc. (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.)