SYDNEY--20 Mar--AsiaNet/InfoQuest HILL APPOINTS... JAKARTA: Hill & Associates (H&A), Asia's largest risk management & businessintelligence consultancy firm, has recently appointed Nick Duder as Presidentof its newly established Risk Reporting Practice and Andy Young as newPresident Director of H&A Indonesia. INDIAN MARKET... BIELEFELD: BIOGAS NORD AG, based in Bielefeld and one of the leadingcompanies for biogas plants, is taking the first, already successful step intothe robustly growing Indian renewable energy market. AUTO JV... SHANGHAI: Dana Corporation Monday announced that its subsidiary, DanaMauritius Ltd., and Dongfeng Motor Co. Ltd. have amended the agreement todevelop their 50/50 joint venture, Dongfeng Dana Axle Co. Ltd. http://www.dana.com http://www.dana.com/reorganization US PROSPECTS... MELBOURNE; Moves to merge Solar Tower power station development interestsinto a wholly owned subsidiary of EnviroMission Limited is set to lift US SolarTower development prospects via a multi-national business development modelproposed under the terms of the merger. www.enviromission.com.au FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae Monday will launch its third Benchmark REMIC issue,offering $1.0 billion of Benchmark REMIC Trust 2007-B1 as a Guaranteed MaturityClass (GMC) with a final maturity date of December 28, 2020. http://www.fanniemae.com MOTOROLA ANNOUNCES... HOLTSVILLE, N.Y.: The enterprise mobility business of Motorola, Inc. Mondayannounced the expansion of its popular line of MC70 Enterprise DigitalAssistants (EDA) with support for CDMA-EVDO networks. http://www.motorola.com GPS PHONE... THALWIL: u-blox AG, the leading Swiss provider of GPS receiver technology,Monday announced the inclusion of its LEA-4S GPS module in the G300 GPS phonemade by Longcheer, a leading Chinese designer of handheld devices. http://www.u-blox.com http://www.longcheertel.com LEADERSHIP CHANGES... HONG KONG: The Asia Business Council Monday announced key leadership changesat its Spring Forum held in Hong Kong March 15-17. www.asiabusinesscouncil.org BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK... NEW YORK and LONDON: Bloomberg Tradebook Services LLC Monday announced thelaunch of the electronic BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK FX marketplace, to be known as"BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK FX," which ushers in a new era for global FX marketparticipants. http://www.bloomberg.com STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP... HONG KONG and TORONTO: Scotiabank Monday announced it has signed a StrategicCo-operation Memorandum (SCM) with Bank of Dalian Co. Ltd. (BOD), formerlyDalian City Commercial Bank, outlining the bank's intention to explore astrategic partnership by way of a minority investment in China'sseventh-largest city commercial bank. www.scotiabank.com DATACRAFT LAUNCHES... BANGKOK: Datacraft, the region's leading independent IT solutions andservices company, has unveiled a new policy-driven solution for archivingcritical email. www.datacraft-asia.com ENTRUST DEPLOYS... DALLAS: In conjunction with one of its resellers, Entrust, Inc. has deployedits industry-leading public key infrastructure technology to enable anIndia-based enterprise to help serve the security needs of individuals andbusinesses. http://www.entrust.com http://www.indusfaceconsulting.com AVNET PIONEERS... SINGAPORE: Avnet Electronics Marketing Asia, a leading distributor ofelectronic components and a division of Avnet, Inc., has concluded a series ofpioneering Xilinx SpeedWay design workshops in Asia Pacific, with remarkableresults and record attendance. www.em.avnet.com/xilinxspeedway ISOFTSTONE RAISES... BEIJING: iSoftStone Information Service Corporation, a leading IToutsourcing service provider in China, Monday announced it has successfullyraised $45 million Series-B Financing with Fidelity Asia Ventures, joined byMitsui Ventures Global Fund, as well as previous investors AsiaVest Partnersand InfoTech Pacific Ventures. http://www.isoftstone.com http://www.fidelityasiaventures.com http://www.mitsuiventures.com NEXTEST EXHIBITS... SHANGHAI: Nextest Systems Corporation, a leading manufacturer of automatictest equipment (ATE) for cost-sensitive semiconductors, Monday announced itwill exhibit at SEMICON/China in Shanghai, March 21-23, 2007. http://www.nextest.com HAIR LOSS.... GENEVA, Ill.: World-renown hair restoration experts will present the latestmedical and surgical advances in treating hair loss in Asians at theInternational Society of Hair Restoration Surgery's (ISHRS) Asian Hair SurgeryWorkshop hosted by ISHRS member Kenichiro Imagawa, M.D., of Yokohama, JapanMarch 30 - April 1, 2007. http://www.ishrs.org http://www.ishrs.org/RegionalWorkshop.html AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.