SYDNEY--4 Apr--AsiaNet/InfoQuest MGM MIRAGE... LAS VEGAS - MGM Mirage announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, People's Republic of China aimed at creating a strategic relationship to pursue non-gaming business opportunities. http://www.mgmmirage.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C. - Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of two securities issues amounting to a total of US$1.9 billion on April 13, 2007 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com SOLAR ENERGY... BERLIN - Germany is the world's number one market for solar energy. It accounts for 55 per cent of global solar electricity production. The country's solar industry has 2,500 MWp of cumulative installed PV power and sales that tallied euro 3.8 bn last year. LUMINARY MICRO... AUSTIN, Texas - Luminary Micro, a fabless semiconductor company that designs, markets, and sells award-winning ARM Cortex-M3 processor-based microcontrollers and was the first to bring ARM processor-based MCUs for $1.00 to embedded developers, announced the availability of two new Reference Design Kits utilizing the company's Stellaris microcontrollers designed specificallyfor motion control applications such as those found in HVAC systems, industrial conveyer systems, liquid pumps, printers, robots, and CNC and other milling machines. http://www.luminarymicro.com http://www.embedded.com/esc/sv http://www.luminarymicro.com/sales http://www.luminarymicro.com/product_selector_guide LUMINARY MICRO... AUSTIN, Texas - Luminary Micro, a fabless semiconductor company that designs, markets, and sells award-winning ARM Cortex-M3 processor-based microcontrollers, together with Keil (an ARM company) and Circuit Cellar magazine, names Jingxi Zhang the winner of the $10,000 DesignStellaris2006 design contest for the Stellaris family of microcontrollers -- the world's first silicon implementation of the ARM Cortex-M3 processor. http://www.luminarymicro.com http://www.embedded.com/esc/sv/ http://www.arm.com http://www.luminarymicro.com/sales http://www.keil.com/distis / CLEVELAND-CLIFFS... CLEVELAND, OH. - Cleveland-Cliffs Inc said that it has entered into a definitive sale and purchase agreement to invest in the Sonoma Coal Project in Queensland, Australia. http://www.cleveland-cliffs.com CORRUPTION BOOK... NEW YORK - Keith Schooley, a former star financial consultant with Merrill Lynch, has signed a contract with a major publishing house for the translation and international distribution of his groundbreaking book Merrill Lynch: The Cost Could Be Fatal -- My War Against Wall Street's Giant (2002, Lakepointe Publishing). http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070404/DAW001 http://photoarchive.ap.org http://www.thecostcouldbefatal.com HOTEL COMMONWEALTH... BOSTON - For Daisuke fans eager to see home games at Fenway Park, Hotel Commonwealth offers the Baseball in Boston Package when the Red Sox play home games at Fenway Park. http://www.hotelcommonwealth.com BUSINESS FORECASTING... MUMBAI - Because of strong interest from practitioners to bring forecasting education to India, the IBF will hold its first Asian based event in Mumbai, India scheduled on 21 & 22 May 2007; a Business Forecasting Training Workshop and Forum that will give step-by-step training in business forecasting & planning geared towards the needs of practicing professionals. http://www.ibf.org/0705pr.cfm http://www.ibf.org TREMONT GROUP... RYE, N.Y. - Tremont Group Holdings, Inc., a leading investment manager of fund of hedge fund products and multi-manager portfolios, announced that Rupert Allan, President, will assume the role of President and Chief Executive Officer effective June 1, 2007. SCOTIABANK ANNOUNCES... KUALA LUMPUR and TORONTO - Scotiabank announced the official opening of four full-service commercial branches in Malaysia. www.scotiabank.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.