SYDNEY--18 Apr--AsiaNet/InfoQuest LNG TERMINALS... WASHINGTON: Hess LNG CEO Gordon Shearer told the Platts Energy Podium hereTuesday that construction of new liquefied natural gas import and processingterminals in the United States is highly unlikely over the next ten years dueto community pushback and overly-restrictive laws at the state and local level. http://www.energypodium.platts.com http://www.platts.com http://www.mcgraw-hill.com OWER ELEVATORS... FARMINGTON: Otis Elevator Company, a unit of United Technologies Corp., wona nearly $4 million contract to supply and install elevators at The St. FrancisShangri-La Place, expected to be the tallest residential towers in thePhilippines. http://www.otis.com MEDIA COOPERATION... BEIJING: MobiTV, Inc., the global leader in mobile and broadband televisionand music services, has announced a cooperation agreement with IntelCorporation. http://www.mobitv.com CHINESE WEBSITE... HAYWARD: Gel-Pak, a division of Delphon Industries and leading manufacturerof device shipping and handling carriers used predominantly by thesemiconductor, optoelectronics, and telecommunication industries announced thelaunch of its new Chinese-Language website on Tuesday. http://www.gelpak.com.cn http://www.gelpak.com TELSTRA CONTRACT... BETHESDA: Iridium Satellite announces that Beam Communications Pty Ltd, anIridium value-added manufacturer, has received a U.S. $3.5 million (Inc GST)order from Telstra Corporation for Iridium-based satellite communicationssystems. http://www.telstra.com http://www.tele-ip.com.au http://www.beamcomm.net http://www.iridium.com PMI ACCREDITATION... NEWTOWN SQUARE: Project Management Institute, the world's leadingnot-for-profit association for the project management profession, announcesthat it has earned the prestigious ISO IEC 17024 accreditation for its ProjectManagement Professional credential program from the International Organizationfor Standardization. http://www.pmi.org CONFERENCE PANEL... BEIJING: WIMAX World - Firetide, Inc., a developer of multi-service wirelessmesh networks and iCELL, Singapore's leading IT solution provider, on 19 April2007 will present a conference panel at WIMAX World covering progress made andlessons learned during the first phase of Wireless@SG , the Wi-Fi deploymentblanketing Singapore. http://www.firetide.com http://www.icellnetwork.com BRAKING SYSTEM... CHARLOTTE: Last month Northrop Grumman's RQ-4 Block Global Hawk unmannedaircraft left Northrop's Palmdale, Calif. facility and successfully landed atEdwards Air Force Base, also in Calif. The historical landing marked the firsttime Goodrich Corporation's electrically-actuated braking system has flown on aproduction basis. http://www.goodrich.com http://212.125.72.174/cgi-bin/goodrich/login.cgi FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of onesecurities issue amounting to a total of US$100 million on April 27, 2007 at aredemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plusaccrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com STRATA SOLUTION... CGI Group Inc. has announced the signing of a contract to implement CGI'spatented Strata solution in order to modernise the billing and customer careenvironment of it's long-standing partner, Telstra. http://www.sedar.com PHOTO DETECTOR... HEILBRONN: Atmel Corporation announced on Tuesday the availability of itsnew photo detector IC for use in the optical pick-up units of DVD and CD drives. http://www.atmel.com RESULTS ANNOUNCED... CLEVELAND: American Greetings Corporation has announced its results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended February 28, 2007, a $100 million share repurchase program, and a 25 per cent increase to its quarterly cash dividend. http://corporate.americangreetings.com http://investors.americangreetings.com TIMOR ELECTIONS... DILI: With East Timor's second round presidential elections approaching,Prime Minister Jose Ramos Horta has once again outlined his key electionplatform as the President for the poor. http://www.ramos-horta.org AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full text version