SYDNEY--29 Jun--AsiaNet/InfoQuest NEW APPOINTMENTS... SYDNEY: One new appointment and two extended appointments tothe board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand were announced by theParliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing, Senator BrettMason. MINING CONTRACT... RIO DE JANEIRO: Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) announcesthat the government of Mozambique has approved the mining contract for theexploitation of the Moatize coal project, located in the northwesternprovince of Tete. www.cvrd.com.br KOMAG UPDATES... SAN JOSE, California: Komag, Incorporated, a leading independent supplier ofthin-film media for disk drives,is updating its business outlook for the secondquarter of 2007. www.komag.com TOBACCO LAWS... WASHINGTON: The Supreme Court of Canada has delivered animportant victory for public health that has global implications in upholdingthe country's strong tobacco control laws, which include strong restrictions ontobacco advertising and sponsorships and large, graphic health warnings oncigarette packs. INDIA OFFICE... MUMBAI, BERLIN, MUNICH and ZURICH: H,T,P, Concept is proud to announce theopening of a new office in Mumbai, India. H,T,P, Concept is one of the leadingindependent qualitative research agencies in Europe and a specialist forcross-cultural and international research. www.inspirationformarketing.com GUAVA TECHNOLOGIES... HAYWARD, California: Guava Technologies, Inc. announced that it wassuccessfully audited to the requirements of ISO13485:2003 by BSI ManagementSystems. With this certification, the company will redouble efforts on medicaldevices for the international market, covering a variety of therapy areas,beginning with HIV/AIDS. www.guavatechnologies.com TOWNSEND ANALYTICS... CHICAGO Illinois, and LONDON: Townsend Analytics, a leadingprovider of multi-broker, multi-asset, multi-currency, and multi-routeelectronic trading solutions for the global capital markets, has added HSBC toits global multi-broker network. www.hsbcnet.com www.townsendanalytics.com www.taltrade.com www.realtick.com OPTOMETRY AWARDS... BOSTON: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc., announced that its ACUVUEADVANCE with HYDRACLEAR, ACUVUE ADVANCE for ASTIGMATISM, and ACUVUE OASYS withHYDRACLEAR PLUS Brand Contact Lenses are the first contact lenses to receivethe World Council of Optometry's Global Seal of Acceptance forUltraviolet Absorbing Contact Lenses. www.acuvue.com AVIATION WEEK... NEW YORK: Top airline and government officials, maintenance and safetyexperts from all over Asia and around the globe will convene during AVIATIONWEEK's annual MRO Asia Conference & Exhibition, to be held October 17-18, 2007at the Shanghai Everbright Convention & Exhibition Centre in Shanghai. www.aviationweek.com www.mcgraw-hill.com www.aviationweek.com/awin www.aviationweek.com/conferences PETRONAS RESULTS... KUALA LUMPUR: The PETRONAS Group delivered another record performance forthe financial year ended 31 March, 2007, amidst a more complex and increasinglychallenging global oil and gas industry environment. www.petronas.com.my VISA-FIFA RELATIONSHIP... LONDON, SAN FRANCISCO and ZURICH: Visa International and FIFA (FederationInternationale de Football Association) confirmed that Visa has become a FIFAPartner with global rights to a broad range of FIFA activities, including the2010 and 2014 FIFA World Cups and the FIFA Women's World Cups. www.corporate.visa.com ANAGEMENT RIGHTS... SYDNEY: Kusido Hospitality and Property Group Pty Ltd, which operates hotelsunder the Leisure Inn Hotels and Suites and Park Regis brands, has announcedthe purchase of Management Letting Rights of four hotel properties inQueensland from theOaks Group. HYDERABAD CHAPTER... HYDERABAD: Hyderabad recently became the newest PRMIAchapter in India, joining those already established in Bangalore and Mumbai.PRMIA is a fast-growing, collaborative network of risk professionals fromaround the globe, defining and implementing the best practices of riskmanagement. www.prmia.org www.prmia.org/Chapter_Pages/Hyderabad AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.