SYDNEY--27 Feb--AsiaNet/InfoQuest JACKY CHEUNG... LAS VEGAS: Famed Chinese singing star Jacky Cheungcelebrated Chinese New Year at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas,United States, with two sold-out performances in the resort's4,100-seat Colosseum theatre, where Celine Dion and Elton Johnoften perform. www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070226/NYM061 www.harrahs.com ZATSIT! LAUNCHES... MCLEAN, Virginia: Zatsit! announces the only interactivewebsite directory designed for marketers who cannot affordstandard marketing or advertising channels. www.zatsit.com HICKEY ANNOUNCES... NEW YORK: Paulette Garafalo, Group President and ChiefOperating Officer of Hickey-Freeman Co., Inc. has announced theappointment of Eric Jennings as Brand Director of the hickeycollection. www.hickeystyle.com ACS DONATES... KUALA LUMPUR and DALLAS, Texas: Affiliated ComputerServices, Inc., a premier provider of business processoutsourcing and information technology solutions, has announcedthat it donated RM24000 to MERCY Malaysia, a non-profitorganization that provides ailing communities with medicalrelief and disaster re-development. www.acs-inc.com www.mercy.org.my QUADREM REVENUES... SINGAPORE: Quadrem International announced its 2006 revenueswere up 18 per cent year-over-year, bringing the company'sprofits to new highs. The value of transactions flowing throughthe procurement platform in calendar year 2006 reached morethan two million purchase orders worth US$13.6 billion in goodsand services. www.quadrem.com STATEMENT ISSUED... NEW YORK: A statement is being issued by Greenberg Traurig,LLP regarding the Securities and Exchange Commission v. VivendiUniversal, S.A. www.VivendiSecSettlement.com VIDEONLINE FUNDING... REDWOOD CITY, California: ViDeOnline Communications, Ltd., apremier digital media networking company, aggregating premiumquality content over its O8 Media platform, to carriers,Internet Service Providers, IPTV and Digital TV providers aswell as mobile carriers throughout Asia, announced that itclosed on its US$12 million in funding led by Intel Capital,the venture investment arm of Intel Corporation. www.videonline.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae said it intends to price a BenchmarkREMIC during the week of March 19, 2007. Citigroup GlobalMarkets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and Greenwich CapitalMarkets Inc. will be the joint lead managers. www.fanniemae.com INDIA TRIP... LONDON: An educational trip to India organised by the UK'sMultiple Sclerosis (MS) Society in conjunction with the MSSociety India has been hailed a success. www.mssociety.org.uk NEW TECHNOLOGY QUEBEC CITY, Quebec, Canada: A potential breakthrough innatural gas dehydration technology will be tested at ademonstration facility in Quebec, thanks to an innovativepartnership between Vaperma Inc., EnCana Corporation andSustainable Development Technology Canada. www.vaperma.com NUVERA SHIPS... CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts: Nuvera Fuel Cells, Inc. announcedthat it has shipped a 125 kW (net) Forza Fuel Cell Power Systemto Sacre-Davey Innovations in North Vancouver, BritishColumbia, Canada as part of the Integrated Waste HydrogenUtilization Project. www.nuvera.com www.uhdenora.com www.sacre-davey.com EKAHAU POWERS... NEW ORLEANS, Los Angeles: Ekahau Inc., a leading provider ofWi-Fi-based Real Time Location Systems, has been selected asNortel's provider of location tracking solutions. www.ekahau.com ANVIL MINING... MONTREAL: Anvil Mining Limited, including its subsidiaries,is pleased to announce record full year consolidated netearnings of US$82.2 million (US$1.65 per share) and operatingprofit after depreciation and amortization of US$107.0 million.Revenues for 2006 totalled US$175.4 million, up 184 per centfrom 2005. www.anvilmining.com ELSEVIER ANNOUNCES... NEW ORLEANS: Elsevier, a world-leading medical publisher,has announced a strategic partnership to deliver Elsevier'sevidence-based medical information directly to the hospitals inChina as part of ChinaMedCom's electronic health record. www.ChinaMedCom.com www.FIRSTConsult.com www.mdconsult.com www.mosbysnursingconsult.com www.info.scopus.com www.sciencedirect.com www.reedelsevier.com www.elsevier.com www.ClinicalDecisionSupport.com DRUG DISCOVERY... SAN DIEGO: ChemDiv, Inc. of San Diego, CA, USA, and KakenPharmaceutical Co., Ltd. of Tokyo, Japan announced that theyhave entered into a joint Drug Discovery collaborationinvolving undisclosed therapeutic targets. www.chemdiv.com www.kaken.co.jp/ VANDETANIB STUDY... ALDERLEY PARK: AstraZeneca has announced that a new PhaseIII study of novel once-daily oral anti-cancer drug, vandetanib(ZACTIMA, ZD6474), is underway. www.astrazeneca.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$25million on March 8, 2007 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.Fannie Mae will also redeem US$25 million MTNR securitiesissues on the same date. www.fanniemae.com GOODRICH CHOSEN... CHARLOTTE, North Carolina: Korean Airlines has chosenGoodrich Corporation to provide landing gear maintenanceservices to support its fleet of Boeing 747 and Next Generation737 aircraft. www.goodrich.com MARVELL ENTERS... SANTA CLARA, California: Marvell, the leader in storage,communications, and consumer silicon solutions, has announcedits entrance into the Serial Attached SCSI storage controllermarket by offering host and RAID controller silicon andsoftware solutions for workstations, servers, and externalstorage systems. www.marvell.com ATMEL LAUNCHES... HEILBRONN: Atmel Corporation, a global leader in thedevelopment and fabrication of advanced semiconductorsolutions, announces the availability of a new RF chipsetcombining the ATR2820 SiGe transceiver IC and the ATR7040high-gain power amplifier, providing the industry's highestintegration level for cordless telephone applications in the5.8 GHz frequency band. www.atmel.com OTIS ELEVATOR... FARMINGTON, Connecticut: Otis Elevator Company, a unit ofUnited Technologies Corp., won contracts in the casino resortindustry of approximately US$150 million in 2006. www.otis.com OTIS WINS... FARMINGTON, Connecticut: Otis Elevator Company, a unit ofUnited Technologies Corp., won elevator and escalator contractsserving the public transportation industry in 2006 valued atnearly one-quarter of a billion dollars, with the latestagreements awarded in Greece and Germany. MICREL JOINS... CAMARILLO, and SAN JOSE, California: Power-One, Inc. andMicrel Inc., have jointly announced availability of the fullline of Z-One compatible low dropout regulators. The Companiesalso jointly announced that Micrel had become the newest memberof the Z-Alliance of power supply and semiconductormanufacturers offering products and components for the Z-Onedigital power architecture. www.power-one.com www.micrel.com XIGRIS TRIAL... INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana: Eli Lilly and Company has announcedplans for a new clinical study of Xigris (drotrecogin alfa[activated]). www.lilly.com www.Xigris.com CONSUMER ELECTRONICS... SINGAPORE: GfK Asia releases its 2006 Year End Pan AsianConsumer Electronics Data Summary, highlighting the trends inthe region's consumer electronics sector. www.gfkms.com ACONEX SELECTED... MELBOURNE: Aconex, will provide its online informationmanagement service to Gulf Development Real Estate Company'sUS$300 million Sarab Al Areen (Sarab) project in the Kingdom ofBahrain. www.aconex.com IT DATA... SINGAPORE: GfK Asia releases its 2006 Year End Pan Asian ITRetail Data Summary, showing a steady expansion in the region'sIT sector. www.gfkms.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.)