SYDNEY--30 Mar--AsiaNet/InfoQuest W.P. STEWART... HAMILTON: Following a meeting of the Company's Board ofDirectors, W.P. Stewart & Co., Ltd. has announced updates toits business activities in the first quarter of 2007 and achange in the dividend policy. www.wpstewart.com KELLWOOD ANNOUNCES... ST. LOUIS: Kellwood Company has announced senior managementpromotions for Smart Shirts Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiarybased in Hong Kong. www.kellwood.com PATENT LAWSUIT... DENVER and CHICAGO, Illinois: A Federal District Court'sdecision recently dealt another blow to Trading Technologies'ongoing patent lawsuit against CQG. In the decision, JudgeJames Moran adopted CQG's view of the patents, narrowing thescope of the protection that TT will enjoy even if the patentsare valid. The Judge emphasized that TT's patents only cover aninterface that includes a price scale where the prices neverautomatically move. www.cqg.com www.cqg.com/press ANADIGICS INTRODUCES... WARREN, New Jersey: ANADIGICS, Inc., a leading provider ofsemiconductor solutions in the rapidly growing broadbandwireless and wireline communications markets, has introduced anew line of innovative CDMA 1X and 1XEVDO Power Amplifiersdesigned to slash average current consumption by up to 50 percent over ANADIGICS' industry leading HELP technology and up to85 per cent compared to Conventional two-stage amplifiers. www.anadigics.com BABY BOOMERS... LOS ANGELES: Although the demand for talent continues toescalate as millions of Baby Boomers reach retirement age, agrowing number of these professionals are "re-careering," orchanging professions mid to late in their careers, according tomore than 270 international recruiters who completed the 11thedition of the quarterly Executive Recruiter Index, released byKorn/Ferry International, a premier global provider of talentmanagement solutions. www.kornferry.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$35million on April 8, 2007 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. www.fanniemae.com NORKOM TECHNOLOGIES... DUBLIN, Ireland: Norkom Technologies launches a newEnterprise Investigation Management solution to complement itsexisting market leading suite of financial crime and compliancesoftware solutions. www.norkom.com SCOTIABANK EXPANDS... BANGKOK and TORONTO: Scotiabank announced that it hasreached an agreement to acquire 24.99 per cent of ThanachartBank, Thailand's eighth-largest bank and leading automobilelender, for 7.1 billion baht (US$217 million). www.scotiabank.com CURTIN MOURNS... PERTH: Curtin University of Technology staff are mourningthe loss of one of their own with the sudden death of ProfessorAileen Plant in Jakarta on Tuesday. CYPROTEX EXTENDS... MANCHESTER: Cyprotex announces that it has enhanced its CloeScreen Mechanism-Based Inhibition service to include 4additional cytochrome P450 (CYP450) isoforms. These new assayscomplement the CYP3A4 isoform assay which was launched lastyear, and provide information on 5 of the major CYP450 isoformswhich are of interest in drug discovery. www.cyprotex.com FINDUS ENTERS... LONDON: Findus Ltd. is pleased to announce it has enteredinto a relationship between its new MEGAO3 Omega-3 Supplementbrand and The David Beckham Academy. www.megaO3.com www.thedavidbeckhamacademy.co.uk www.findus.co.uk DATACRAFT DESIGNS... BANGKOK: Datacraft, the region's leading independent ITsolutions and services company, has been chosen by BangkokUniversity to design and deploy a new campus network to supportits growing IT requirements. www.datacraft-asia.com TELSTRA RECONFIRMS... MELBOURNE: In accordance with the requirements of the New York Stock Exchange, Telstra Corporation Limited (NYSE:TLS)confirms its previous advice to the market that it intends to withdraw the listing of its American Depositary Shares, evidenced by American Depositary Receipts, and the underlying ordinary shares from the New York Stock Exchange. AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.