SYDNEY--14 Mar--AsiaNet/InfoQuest ENERGY AGENDA... WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman, chairman of the Senate Energy andNatural Resources Committee, told a standing-room only Platts Energy Podiumevent in Washington on Monday that his committee would focus on six keylegislative issues, beginning with resolution of offshore leasing disputes,climate change legislation, and energy technology policy. http://platts.com/energypodium/index.xml/ http://www.platts.com http://www.mcgraw-hill.com KSE MERGER... BLADEL - KSE Protech bv and ObjectAutomation Corporation (OA) have joinedforces in a move that combines OA's industrial automation and distributedprocess control technology with KSE's strengths in global automation softwareand hardware solution delivery. http://www.newscom.com/cgibin/prnh/20070313/CLTU015LOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org http://www.oa.com/ EURAIL GROWS.. UTRECHT - The Eurail Group, owner of the popular Eurail Passes allowingunlimited rail travel in a wide range of country combinations in Europe,reported a worldwide increase in sales of 18.3% in 2006 over 2005. http://www.Eurail.com http://www.eurail-acprail.com http://www.flightcentre.com http://www.OctopusTravel.com http://raileurope.fr/wheretobuy ROCK 'N ROLL... NEW YORK - Famous rockers taking part in London include Bill Wyman (RollingStones), Jack Bruce (Cream), Gary Brooker, (Procol Harum), Jon Lord, (DeepPurple), Paul Carrack (Squeeze, Mike and the Mechanics), Simon Kirke (BadCompany & Free), Mick Ralphs (Bad Company & Free), Bruce Kulick (KISS), SpencerDavis (Spencer Davis Group), Neil Murray (Whitesnake & Black Sabbath), SpikeEdney (Queen). http://www.rockcamp.com http://www.langdonandclay.com / OTIS WINS... FARMINGTON, Connecticut - Otis, a unit of United Technologies Corp., wasawarded a contract to supply and install 111 elevators and escalators for therenovation of the Beijing South Railway Station, an important infrastructureproject supporting the Beijing 2008 Olympic Summer Games. http://www.otis.com ACS NAMES... DALLAS, TX. - Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., a premier provider ofbusiness process outsourcing and information technology solutions, announcednew leadership for its Asia-Pacific management team to support the company'sglobal expansion as it focuses on this important market. http://www.acs-inc.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C. - Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of twosecurities issues amounting to a total of US$75 million on March 23, 2015 andDecember 23, 2020 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principalamount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com OPENTV LAUNCHES... SAN FRANCISCO - OpenTV Corp., a leading provider of enabling technologiesfor advanced television and cross-platform interactive services, announced thatit has successfully integrated and downloaded its Core2 software to over1,400,000 set-top boxes for DishTV. http://www.sec.gov http://www.opentv.com/ GLOBALCOM PR-NETWORK... BRUSSELS - The members of the GlobalCom PR-Network decided to incorporateinto an Incorporation. http://www.gcpr.net COGNOSENSE APPOINTS... LAUSANNE and BEIJING - The Board of Directors of Cognosense appoints Mr.Erick Caron as new Chief Executive Officer & Delegate of the Board of Directors. http://www.cognosense.com BYTEMOBILE APPOINTS... MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Bytemobile, Inc., the global leader in multi-serviceoptimization solutions for mobile data networks, announced the appointment ofJohn Cole as vice president and general manager, Asia Pacific. http://www.bytemobile.com SUCAMPO PHARMA... TOKYO - Sucampo Pharma, Ltd., a subsidiary of U.S.-based SucampoPharmaceuticals, Inc., announced that it has begun a repeated-dose Phase Iclinical study in Japan of AMITIZA (lubiprostone), Sucampo Pharmaceuticals'U.S.-approved drug for Chronic Idiopathic Constipation in adults. http://www.sucampo.com http://www.amitiza.com CME TO... HONG KONG and CHICAGO - CME, the world's largest and most diverse financialexchange, announced it is partnering with China index provider FTSE XinhuaIndex (FXI) to list CME E-mini futures on the FTSE/Xinhua(R) China 25 Index,scheduled to begin trading on May 20. http://www.cme.com http://www.cme.com/mediaroom http://www.CME.com/FTSE http://www.ftsexinhua.com / LIMELIGHT NETWORKS... TEMPE, Ariz. and SINGAPORE - Limelight Networks, a leading content deliverynetwork for digital media, announced it has been selected as the exclusiveprovider of streaming media services by The New Media Group, KK headquarteredin Tokyo. http://www.limelightnetworks.com CQG ANNOUNCES... DENVER - CQG is the first independent software vendor to complete FIXcertification for the Dubai Mercantile Exchange Limited (DME) and is the onlyvendor currently qualified to route orders to the DME, the Middle East's firstenergy futures exchange, which is located within the Dubai InternationalFinancial Centre (DIFC). www.cqg.com/press http://www.cqg.com PATENT CASE... HONG KONG - On March 9, 2007, the U.S. District Court, Western District ofWashington at Seattle issued its Findings of Facts and Conclusions of Law infavor of Esquel in the case of Taltech Ltd. and TAL Apparel Ltd. v-. EsquelApparel, Inc. and Esquel Enterprises, Ltd., which first began in April 2004, onthe complaint that Esquel willfully infringed certain patents of TaltechLimited applicable to the manufacture of pucker-free seams for wrinkle-freeshirts. http://www.esquel.com OANDA LAUNCHES... NEW YORK - OANDA, a pioneering foreign exchange trading and informationcompany, announced it has added five new currency pairs to its trading platformFXTrade. http://www.oanda.com http://fxlabs.oanda.com ULTRASOUND SYSTEM... TOKYO - Aloka Co., Ltd. announced that the shipment of the broad purposediagnostic ultrasound system model SSD-3500 has exceeded 10,000 units as ofFebruary 2007. www.aloka.com WILMERHALE ANNOUNCES... WASHINGTON - WilmerHale announces the expansion of its China practice withthe addition of Robert Woll as Co-Partner in Charge of its Beijing officealongside Lester Ross. http://www.wilmerhale.com/ AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.