SYDNEY--31 Jul--AsiaNet/InfoQuest GREEN PROJECT... NEW YORK: The New Songdo City International BusinessDistrict in South Korea being developed by New York's GaleInternational has been accepted as a pilot project and partnerby the U.S. Green Building Council for its LEED forNeighborhood Development (LEED-ND) certification, the firstnational standard for neighborhood design.http://www.NewSongdoCity.com ENERGY MARKET... WASHINGTON: US Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, saidat a Platts Energy Podium in Washington Monday that he isworking with three other senators on a bill designed to shutdown certain types of damaging energy market manipulation.http://www.platts.comhttp://www.energypodium.platts.com ENGINEERING SERVICES... CHICAGO: MWH, a global provider of environmentalengineering, construction and strategic consulting services,announced on Monday that it has been selected by ErtanHydropower Development Company, Ltd. (EHDC) to provideengineering and construction management consulting services forthe Jinping I Hydropower project in China.http://www.mwhglobal.com COLLEXIS EXEC VP/CMO... COLUMBIA: Collexis, leading developer of knowledgemanagement (KM) and discovery software, has recently hiredDarrell W. Gunter as its Executive VP/Chief MarketingOfficer.http://www.collexis.com/ SIDLEY PARTNERSHIP... TOKYO: Akira Nakazawa in the Tokyo office of Sidley AustinGaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi Jimusho, in association with Nishikawa& Partners, is among the 36 associates and counsel elevated topartnership in the firm, which now has 659 partners in officesin the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia.http://www.sidley.com SIDLEY AUSTIN... HONG KONG: Charles Allen in the Hong Kong office of SidleyAustin is among the 36 associates and counsel elevated topartnership in the firm, which now has 659 partners in officesin the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia.http://www.sidley.com HITACHI DEAL... LOS ANGELES: Response Genetics, Inc. has announced that ithas entered into a collaboration agreement with HitachiChemical Co., Ltd., a leading diagnostics manufacturer inJapan.http://www.responsegenetics.comhttp://www.hitachi-chem.co.jp NEW FORMAT... BERNE: On 1 August, the national holiday, Switzerland'sinformation portal swissworld.org, which is run by PresenceSwitzerland, changes to a new format with a rejuvenated, moreuser-friendly presentation and content.http://www.swissworld.orghttp://www.presence.ch OMEGA WATCHES... TOKYO: American actor and OMEGA ambassador George Clooneyposes for photographers at the Nicolas G. Hayek Center buildingduring an Omega-Event, in Tokyo, 30 July 2007.http://asianetnews.net/ViewImage.asp?ID=74381http://asianetnews.net/ViewImage.asp?ID=74382http://asianetnews.net/ViewImage.asp?ID=74383http://asianetnews.net/ViewImage.asp?ID=74384 FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of one securities issue amounting to a total of US$50million on August 9, 2007 at a redemption price equal to 100per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest.http://www.fanniemae.com GERRESHEIMER GROWTH... DUSSELDORF: Gerresheimer AG continued its growth trend inthe first-half of 2007, which ended on May 31. Sales, whichwere consolidated with the sales of Wilden AG for the firsttime, climbed by 40 per cent to 447.3 (previous half year 2006:320.6) million euros. Gerresheimer.http://www.gerresheimer.com/ir INTERNET PLATFORM... PETACH TIKVA: True Internet, Thailand's leading InternetService Provider (ISP) and one of the fastest growing providersin Asia, is implementing Oversi's caching and content deliveryplatform to manage the growing P2P (peer-to-peer) traffic loadon its network and optimize the delivery of commercial mediacontent to its customers.http://www.oversi.comhttp://www.truecorp.co.th / ACONEX SELECTED... BUCHAREST: Aconex, has been selected by project managementfirm PCMG to provide its online information management serviceto three major residential and hospitality developments locatednear Mamaia beach and within Constanta in Romania.www.aconex.com TELEKOM RESULTS... KUALA LUMPUR: Telekom Malaysia Berhad recorded an impressive18.9 percent growth in international revenues in the first halfof 2007, rising to RM2.27 billion from RM1.91 billion duringthe same period last year.www.tm.com.my AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.