SYDNEY--20 Jun--AsiaNet/InfoQuest BIRKART GLOBISTICS... BANGKOK: Birkart Globistics air + ocean, a business segmentof Thiel Logistik AG, has announced that the Neuman & EsserGroup, one of the world's leading suppliers of reciprocatingcompressors, has selected the logistics service provider as itscompany of choice for the provision of international shippingservices, with a strong focus in the Asian market place. www.birkart.com www.thiel-logistik.com AUSTRALIAN DIVISION... SYDNEY: Herbert Insurance Group, a specialist broking firmand "Coverholder" at Lloyd's of London has opened a division inAustralia. Herberts provide advice and arrange and placeFinancial Lines Insurance, Commercial, Property, Liability,Motor, Directors and Officers Liability, ProfessionalIndemnity, Marine, Life & Disability, Travel, Medical and PrizeIndemnity insurance covers as well as Domestic and ResidentialInsurance. www.herbertinsurancegroup.com CERTICOM LAUNCHES... MISSISSAUGA, Ontario: Certicom has launched Certicom UMADevice Software, a software developer module that makes it easyfor device manufacturers to implement the unlicensed mobileaccess protocol and get their products to market faster whilereducing development costs. www.certicom.com www.certicom.com/uma SOLLAND SOLAR... HEERLEN and AACHEN: Solland Solar is planning its secondexpansion within one year. The shareholders of the solar cellproducer have agreed to increase production capacity almostthreefold. From mid-2008, Solland Solar will be able to producesolar power with a total capacity of 170 MWp per year, insteadof the current 60 MWp/a. www.sollandsolar.com INNOVATION AWARD... WILTON, Connecticut: Startech Environmental Corporation, afully reporting company, announced that the company receivedthe Frost & Sullivan "2007 Excellence in Emerging TechnologiesAward for Technology Innovation" at the Frost & Sullivan AnnualAward ceremonies in California on June 13. www.startech.net www.frost.com SOFTWARE AGREEMENT... CHICAGO, Illinois: Trading Technologies International, Inc.,Daiwa Securities SMBC Europe Limited and Daiwa SecuritiesAmerica Inc. have announced that they have entered into aglobal software licensing and TTNET distribution agreement. www.tradingtechnologies.com www.tradingtechnologies.com/ttnet.aspx SOFTWARE AGREEMENT... CHICAGO, Illinois, PARIS and LONDON: Trading TechnologiesInternational, Inc. and BNP Paribas Commodity Futures announcedthat they have entered into a global software licensing andTTNET distribution agreement. www.tradingtechnologies.com www.tradingtechnologies.com/ttnet.aspx www.bnpparibas.com RECORD DAY... NEW YORK: Thomson Financial, an operating unit of TheThomson Corporation and a leading provider of information andtechnology solutions to the worldwide financial community, hasannounced record one-day trading volume of 3.53 billion shareson its Thomson Order Routing network. www.thomsonfinancial.com www.thomson.com EURAND'S ZENTASE... MILAN and DAYTON, Ohio: Eurand N.V. has announced resultsthat were presented at the recent European Cystic FibrosisSociety meeting in Antalya, Turkey, held June 13-16. Resultsfrom two phase III studies of Zentase showed a statisticallyand clinically significant improvement in the absorption offat, protein and nutrients in patients suffering from ExocrinePancreatic Insufficiency. www.eurand.com MARKETING APPROVAL... NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California, and BRUSSELS: The InternationalMyeloma Foundation - supporting research and providingeducation, advocacy and support for myeloma patients, families,researchers and physicians - has applauded the EMEA decision togrant marketing authorization for REVLIMID (lenalidomide) foruse in multiple myeloma. www.myeloma.org www.myelomala.org REVLIMID GRANTED... BOUDRY: Celgene International Sarl announced that REVLIMID(lenalidomide) has been granted full marketing authorization bythe European Commission for use in combination withdexamethasone as a treatment for patients with multiple myelomawho have received at least one prior therapy. This approvalrepresents the first regulatory approval for Celgene in Europe,and REVLIMID represents the first breakthrough oral therapy inEurope for multiple myeloma patients in more than fortyyears. www.celgene.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$2.6billion on June 29, 2007 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. www.fanniemae.com LICENSING AGREEMENT... TORONTO: Golden China Resources Corporation has announcedthat it has reached an agreement to amend the existingtechnology licensing agreement for the use of the proprietarybacterial oxidation technology employed by the company'sBioGold production facility in Shandong province, China. www.goldenchina.ca www.renmarkfinancial.com ROLLS-ROYCE ENGINES... AMSTERDAM: AerCap Holdings N.V. announced that it has signedan agreement with Rolls-Royce to power ten of the new A330aircraft that it ordered earlier this year from Airbus withRolls-Royce Trent 700 engines. Deliveries of the Trent-poweredaircraft are due to begin in 2009. SYMETRICS AWARDED... MELBOURNE, Florida: Symetrics Industries, LLC announced thatit has been awarded an estimated US$2 million contract fromFinmeccanica subsidiary AgustaWestland, for 70 Improved DataModem systems. www.symetrics.com NEW IDENTITY... CHICAGO: Townsend Analytics has unveiled its new corporateidentity symbolizing the company's evolution to a leadingprovider of multi-broker, multi-asset, multi-route andmulti-region electronic trading solutions for the electroniccapital markets. www.townsendanalytics.com www.realtick.com MERGER ANNOUNCED... EDINBURGH, and PRINCETON, New Jersey: In a milestone eventfor the architectural design industry, RMJM, one of the world'slargest architectural practices, and Hillier, one of thelargest architectural design firms in the U.S., have announcedplans to merge their firms, creating a combined entity withunprecedented depth of talent and global reach. www.hillier.com www.rmjm.com TRIALS BEGIN... ALDERLEY PARK: AstraZeneca has announced the start of twoPhase II trials for a new compound being tested to treatpatients with BRCA 1 & 2 positive breast and ovarian cancer.Myriad Genetics, Inc., is providing the molecular diagnostictesting for these trials. www.myriad.com www.astrazeneca.com www.breakthrough.org.uk INDOSATM2 OFFERS... SINGAPORE: IndosatM2, one of the largest Internet andmultimedia service providers in Indonesia, announced that itwill offer satellite broadband service over Ku-Band using auniversal satellite hub from iDirect Technologies. www.idirect.net www.vt-systems.com OFFER ENDORSED... SINGAPORE: Connect Holdings Limited (Connect) has welcomedthe unanimous recommendation of the independent directors ofPacific Internet Limited and the opinion of the independentfinancial adviser to PacNet, KPMG Corporate Finance Pte Ltd,that Connect's voluntary conditional cash general offer toacquire all the issued shares of PacNet is fair from afinancial point of view and the recommendation thatshareholders should accept the revised offer. The revisedoffer, announced on 7 June 2007, is for US$11.00 net in cashper share, without interest. www.sec.gov AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.