SYDNEY--12 Feb--AsiaNet/InfoQuest ALCAN TO... HARIDWAR, India - Alcan will make an initial investment of US$10 million inthe Indian flexible packaging market. www.alcan.com PR NEWSWIRE... NEW YORK - PR Newswire announced that it has been named the official newsservice provider for the 3GSM World Congress 2007, scheduled to take place fromFebruary 12-15 in Barcelona, Spain. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20000306/PRNLOGO http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070208/NYTH113LOGO http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070116/NYTU128 http://photoarchive.ap.org http://www.prnewswire.com http://3gsmworldcongress.mediaroom.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON - Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of three securitiesissues amounting to a total of US$200 million on February 20, 21, 2007 at aredemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plusaccrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com MEASUREMENT FLEXIBILITY... LONDON - Asian and Australasian businesses need to know that the display ofUS, British imperial and industry-specific measurements alongside metric couldbe illegal in the European Union in less than three year's time. http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/prepack/unitmeas/uni_ms_en.htm http://www.bwmaonline.com/Yardstick%2028%20-%20October%202006.doc ANTICOAGULANT AGENT... SAN FRANCISCO - A 1,700-patient study comparing anticoagulation therapiesfound that enoxaparin, one of a class of compounds called low-molecular-weightheparins, is significantly more effective than an older therapy at preventing adangerous and common ischemic stroke complication called venous thromboembolism(VTE). http://www.uthscsa.edu INDIAN AIRLINES... BANGALORE - Indian Airlines will be the first carrier in India to operatePratt & Whitney-powered Airbus A330s. The airline is scheduled to take deliveryof the first of two A330-200 aircraft with PW4000-100" engines in October 2007. http://www.pratt-whitney.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON - Fannie Mae to launch two securities issues amounting to a totalof US$4 billion to be redeemed on February 16, 2012 and February 13, 2017. http://www.fanniemae.com PRATT & WHITNEY... BANGALORE - Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies Corp.,reinforced its commitment to India as a key growth market and strong technologypartner for civil and defense aero-power products and services at the AeroIndia 2007 airshow in Bangalore this week. http://www.pratt-whitney.com CONTRAST MEDIA... VILLEPINTE - Several dozen cases of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis amongpatients with renal failure who have benefited from a Magnetic ResonanceImaging (MRI) scan have been identified in the world. http://www.guerbet.com www.icnfdr.org http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/advisory/gadolinium_agents_20061222.htm WYETH APPLAUDS... COLLEGEVILLE - Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth, welcomes thedecision by donor countries to focus on the importance of pneumococcal diseaseand to launch a pilot Advanced Market Commitment, which will help to bring thepneumococcal conjugate vaccine to developing countries. http://www.wyeth.com/ OPEC OUTPUT... LONDON - The 10 OPEC members bound by the cartel's output agreementsproduced an average 26.95 million barrels per day (b/d) in January, down 50,000b/d from December's 27 million b/d, but still well above the group's November2006 and February 2007 targets, a Platts survey showed February 9. http://www.mcgraw-hill.com . http://www.platts.com/ ACTIX APPOINTS... BARCELONA - Actix, the recognized global leader for systems that enhancemobile network customer experience while reducing the total cost of ownership,announced the appointment of Alex Hawker as Chief Executive Officer. www.actix.com STEMCORE IS... WELLESLEY - In response to the rapidly evolving field of stem cell research,this month's launch of StemCore marks the establishment of the firstindependent ethical review board focusing exclusively on stem cell research. http://www.stemcore.org EDS TARGETS... SYDNEY - Global technology services group EDS aims to slash its greenhousegas emissions in Australia and New Zealand in a wide-ranging program that willaffect most areas of its business. (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.)