SYDNEY--18 Jul--AsiaNet/InfoQuest HIP-HOP COMMUNITY... ATLANTA: Tupac Amaru Shakur Centre for the Arts ProjectManagers, Tre' Maxie and Vern Cambridge, will embark on aweek-long journey to Japan, from July 19-27, in order to fosterrelationships with the hip-hop and performing arts community inTokyo. www.tasf.org www.2paclegacy.com SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGIES... SAN FRANCISCO: Innovative semiconductor technologies andapplications are being developed and tested in Germany. Thiswas the topic at Invest in Germany's executive luncheon "Madein Germany - the Growing Success Story for Next-Generationsolar and Semiconductor Companies" completed during the secondday of Semicon West 2007 at Moscone Centre in San Francisco. www.invest-in-germany.com GERMANY REFORMS... BERLIN: The German government has agreed to a reform ofcompany taxation that includes a strong reduction in thecorporate income tax. The reform goes into effect on January1st, 2008. It plans a reduction of the real total tax burden(corporate income tax plus trade tax) for incorporatedcompanies from an average of 38.7 per cent to an average of29.8 per cent. AUSTRALIA NETWORK... SYDNEY: The Managing Director of the Australian BroadcastingCorporation, Mark Scott, has announced the appointment of BruceDover as the new Chief Executive of Australia Network,Australia's international television service to Asia, thePacific and the Indian sub-continent. www.australianetwork.com CONTRACT SIGNED... BEIJING: Beijing Perfect World Co,. Ltd, has signedcontracts with four overseas agents in Malaysia, Singapore,Thailand, Japan and the three domestic regions of Taiwan, HongKong, and Macao to export its comedy online game, Legend ofMartial Arts. DISTRIBUTION PARTNERSHIP... TOKYO and TEL AVIV: Sumitomo Densetsu, a leading integratorof Information and Communications Technologies, and Extricom,the designer and manufacturer of the Interference-Free WirelessLAN System, have announced a distribution partnership. www.extricom.com www.sem.co.jp MCGRAW-HILL PRESENTS... NEW YORK: McGraw-Hill Construction, the premier provider ofconstruction information and intelligence in North America andpart of The McGraw-Hill Companies, announced it will present"Green Building and Energy Conservation: The Talk, Practice andPerformance International Conference," September 13-14, 2007,in Hangzhou, China, in collaboration with the esteemed ZhejiangUniversity. www.construction.com www.mcgraw-hill.com www.construction.com/event/GreenBuilding/ COLLEXIS APPOINTS... COLUMBIA, South Carolina: Collexis Holdings, Inc., a leadingdeveloper of knowledge discovery software, has announced theappointment of four former CEOs to its board of directors. www.collexis.com REALEYES3D INTRODUCES... PARIS: Realeyes3D, a leading provider of mobile imagingapplications for camera phone users, has announced the launchof Magic Wanda - the first camera phone messaging applicationthat allows users to create and share their own unique animatedphoto messages directly on the handset in Adobe Flash Liteformat - without requiring a server. www.realeyes3d.com/MagicWanda PANACEA PHARMACEUTICALS... GAITHERSBURG, Maryland: Panacea Pharmaceuticals, Inc. hasannounced that LC Detect(sm), the Company's serum-based lungcancer diagnostic test, is now available from PanaceaLaboratories. www.PanaceaPharma.com www.panacea-labs.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$125million on July 27, 2007 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. www.fanniemae.com MARVELL NAMES... SANTA CLARA, California: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.announced it has named Michael Rashkin chief financial officereffective immediately. www.marvell.com ATMEL ANNOUNCES... HEILBRONN, Germany: Atmel Corporation has announced theavailability of its new ATA6836 low-cost half-bridge driverIC. www.atmel.com www.atmel.com/dyn/products/product_card.asp?part_id=4194 SAFC UNVEILS... SAN FRANCISCO: The SAFC Hitech business segment within SAFC,a member of the Sigma-Aldrich Group, has announced details ofits new five-year chemical roadmap for Metalorganic ChemicalVapor Deposition and Atomic Layer Deposition processes onsilicon semiconductor substrates. www.sigma-aldrich.com www.safchitech.com NICE PERFORM... RA'ANANA: NICE Systems Ltd., a leading global provider ofadvanced solutions that enable organizations to extract Insightfrom Interactions to drive performance, has announced thatAustralia's Child Support Agency has selected NICE PerformAdaptive Interaction Analytics and will implement it in 14sites with 3,300 agents. www.csa.gov.au www.nice.com STARVIEW TECHNOLOGY... SAN FRANCISCO: Starview Technology, Inc., the leadingprovider of Real-Time Process Intelligence solutions for thesemiconductor and electronics industries, has announced theimmediate availability of its Process Intelligence Platform andsolutions, Version 3.2. www.starviewtechnology.com GRAND PRIX... ABU DHABI: As the current F1 season steps up a gear so toohas construction on the new Yas Island Circuit, Abu Dhabi,which will host the Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix from 2009. www.abudhabigp.com CHINA EXCITEMENT... SHANGHAI: Ford is launching the China Excitement Challenge -a multi-layered public service and information campaign with amission to help millions of Chinese visualize their own brandof excitement and then go out and get it. www.excite.com.cn www.excitechina.com.cn TELEVISION SERIES... STOCKHOLM and BEIJING: Swedish television company Bringitonhas developed a television series with China EntertainmentTelevision, one of the leading broadcasters in the nation, toenable Western brands to impact millions of consumers in anentertaining and distinctly Chinese way. www.bringiton.se www.cetv.com FELLOWSHIP AWARDS... BANGALORE: Microsoft Research India has announced its Ph.D.Fellowship Program awards for 2007. The Ph.D. FellowshipProgram aims to encourage students to take up doctoraleducation in computer science and help the growth of theresearch community in India. www.microsoft.com/presspass AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.