SYDNEY--25 Jul--AsiaNet/InfoQuest JETSTAR FARES... MELBOURNE - Australia's low fares airline Jetstar is ready for take off withdirect flights between Kuala Lumpur* and Sydney from 9 September 2007commercially launching its flights in Malaysia with a market leading web fareoffer from MYR 88# one way at Jetstar.com.www.Jetstar.com ARROW ASIA... HONG KONG - Arrow Asia Pac Ltd., a business unit of Arrow Electronics, Inc.announced that it received the "Asia Best Distributor Gold Award" by NXP.http://www.nxp.com/ EURAIL GROUP... UTRECHT Eurail Group, the provider of Eurail Passes for flexible rail travelaround Europe since 1959, hails Railteam as a revolution in European traintravel.http://www.railteam.euhttp://www.EurailGroup.com ASIAN CUP... HONG KONG - ING, Official Sponsor of the 2007 AFC Asian Cup, announced thatas part of its sponsorship agreement, it will award USD25,000 to the mostvaluable player of the 2007 AFC Asian Cup tournament.http://xprnnews.xfn.info/ING/20070724/HK076926.htmhttp:///www.ingafc.com MENICON ACQUIRES... NAGOYA - Menicon Co., Ltd. acquires flat pack technology, including allintellectual properties and other related assets, from 1800CONTACTS andClearLab International.http://www.menicon.com/ STARPHARMA PRESENTS... MELBOURNE - Starpharma Holdings Limited will present results of a clinicaltrial indicating that 3% SPL7013 Gel (VivaGel) was well-tolerated in men, andsuitable for further development as a topical microbicide for the prevention ofHIV and genital herpes. http://www.starpharma.com/data/070724%20Presents%20positive%20results%20of%20male%20study.pdf www.starpharma.com NAVINI ANNOUNCES... RICHARDSON, Texas and PANAMA CITY, Panama - Navini Networks announced a truemilestone as it marks the first commercial implementation of its 802.16e MobileWiMAX software with beamforming.http://www.navini.com NOVARRA TO... CHICAGO - Novarra, the leading provider of next-generation mobile Internetplatforms and services, announced that Yahoo! has selected Novarra's Visionserver version 6.5 platform to provide web transformation for Yahoo!'soneSearch service.http://www.novarra.com PEPSICO REPORTS... PURCHASE, N.Y. - PepsiCo reported a 15% increase in second-quarter earningsper share to $0.94.http://www.pepsico.com STARTECH ENVIRONMENTAL... WILTON, Conn. - Startech Environmental Corporation, a fully reportingcompany, announced that EnviroSafe Industrial Services Corporation of PuertoRico plans to produce methanol and various synthetic fuels from the wastes itwill be processing in the Startech Plasma Converter Systems in the EnviroSafeRecycling Facility in Puerto Rico.http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/113537.htmlhttp://www.startech.net FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C. - Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of asecurities issue amounting to a total of US$150 million on August 3, 2007 at aredemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plusaccrued interest.http://www.fanniemae.com PEROT SYSTEMS... PLANO, Texas - Perot Systems announced the appointment of Raj G. Asava asvice president to lead the company's newly-created Enterprise Planning Groupand head new business development for its Consulting and Application Solutions(CAS) Group.http://www.sec.govhttp://www.prnewswire.com/comp/122686.htmlhttp://www.perotsystems.com POLAND REALBASIC... AUSTIN, Texas - REAL Software, Inc. provider of REALbasic, cross-platformthat really works, announced that the Poland Ministry of Education and Sciencehas purchased additional REALbasic software licenses to teach programming inschools across Poland.http://www.realsoftware.com/users/education/curriculum.http://www.realsoftware.com/download.http://www.realsoftware.com LIQUIDNET SETS... NEW YORK - Liquidnet, the top brokerage firm for global trading, announcedits second quarter 2007 results today, posting record performance in the UnitedStates, Europe, and Canada.http://www.liquidnet.com GALE INTERNATIONAL... NEW YORK - Gale International announced that Jones Lang LaSalle has beenselected as the exclusive leasing agent for the Northeast Asia Trade Tower, thefirst commercial office tower to be built in the International BusinessDistrict in New Songdo City, Incheon, South Korea.http://www.NewSongdoCity.comhttp://www.joneslanglasalle.com ANADIGICS ANNOUNCES... WARREN, N.J. - ANADIGICS, Inc., a leading provider of semiconductorsolutions in the rapidly growing broadband wireless and wireline communicationsmarkets, reported record quarterly second quarter 2007 net sales of $53.9million, an increase of 8.7% compared with net sales of $49.6 million in theprior quarter, and an increase of 37% compared to net sales of $39.3 million inthe year ago quarter.http://www.anadigics.com UNIQUE QUANTUM... GOLDEN, Colo. - Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's NationalRenewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), collaborating with Innovalight, Inc., haveshown that a new and important effect called Multiple Exciton Generation (MEG)occurs efficiently in silicon nanocrystals.http://pubs3.acs.org/acs/journals/doilookup?in_doi=10.1021/nl071486lhttp://www.nrel.gov and http://www.innovalight.com.http://innovalight.comhttp://www.nrel.gov FIX8 PARTNERS... KYOTO - Red Herring Japan -- fix8, a new media company that provides rich,interactive media tools for user-generated content, and Stickam Japan, theInternet's most powerful video communications player, today announced at RedHerring Japan a joint partnership bringing fix8's interactive avatar creator toStickam Japan's groundbreaking live video broadcast technology.http://www.fix8.comhttp://www.Stickam.jp GLOBAL SOCIAL... SINGAPORE - Dr Lynelle Kerr, winner of the inaugural XL Global SocialEntrepreneur Award, has launched her new foundation -- the All One Foundation.Created to provide ongoing healing support for children and women who havesuffered abuse and violence from the sex trade in countries where limitedrehabilitation services exist, the foundation will initially focus on twoshelters in Cambodia. DATASQUIRT LAUNCHES... AUCKLAND - Auckland-based contact centre software company Datasquirt Limitedhas launched a public offering on the ASX, underwritten by Bell PotterSecurities Limited, to raise a minimum of $A10 million at $0.90 per share.www.datasquirt.co.nz REGULATORY COMPLIANCE... SEOUL - Serena Software, Inc., the leading global independent softwarecompany focused solely on application lifecycle management (ALM), released theresults of its 2007 Asia-Pacific (APAC) CIO survey.www.serena.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