SYDNEY--31 Jul--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
GREEN PROJECT...
NEW YORK: The New Songdo City International Business
District in South Korea being developed by New York's Gale
International has been accepted as a pilot project and partner
by the U.S. Green Building Council for its LEED for
Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) certification, the first
national standard for neighborhood design.
http://www.NewSongdoCity.com
ENERGY MARKET...
WASHINGTON: US Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, said
at a Platts Energy Podium in Washington Monday that he is
working with three other senators on a bill designed to shut
down certain types of damaging energy market manipulation.
http://www.platts.com
http://www.energypodium.platts.com
ENGINEERING SERVICES...
CHICAGO: MWH, a global provider of environmental
engineering, construction and strategic consulting services,
announced on Monday that it has been selected by Ertan
Hydropower Development Company, Ltd. (EHDC) to provide
engineering and construction management consulting services for
the Jinping I Hydropower project in China.
http://www.mwhglobal.com
COLLEXIS EXEC VP/CMO...
COLUMBIA: Collexis, leading developer of knowledge
management (KM) and discovery software, has recently hired
Darrell W. Gunter as its Executive VP/Chief Marketing
Officer.
http://www.collexis.com/
SIDLEY PARTNERSHIP...
TOKYO: Akira Nakazawa in the Tokyo office of Sidley Austin
Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi Jimusho, in association with Nishikawa
& Partners, is among the 36 associates and counsel elevated to
partnership in the firm, which now has 659 partners in offices
in the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia.
http://www.sidley.com
SIDLEY AUSTIN...
HONG KONG: Charles Allen in the Hong Kong office of Sidley
Austin is among the 36 associates and counsel elevated to
partnership in the firm, which now has 659 partners in offices
in the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia.
http://www.sidley.com
HITACHI DEAL...
LOS ANGELES: Response Genetics, Inc. has announced that it
has entered into a collaboration agreement with Hitachi
Chemical Co., Ltd., a leading diagnostics manufacturer in
Japan.
http://www.responsegenetics.com
http://www.hitachi-chem.co.jp
NEW FORMAT...
BERNE: On 1 August, the national holiday, Switzerland's
information portal swissworld.org, which is run by Presence
Switzerland, changes to a new format with a rejuvenated, more
user-friendly presentation and content.
http://www.swissworld.org
http://www.presence.ch
OMEGA WATCHES...
TOKYO: American actor and OMEGA ambassador George Clooney
poses for photographers at the Nicolas G. Hayek Center building
during an Omega-Event, in Tokyo, 30 July 2007.
http://asianetnews.net/ViewImage.asp?ID=74381
http://asianetnews.net/ViewImage.asp?ID=74382
http://asianetnews.net/ViewImage.asp?ID=74383
http://asianetnews.net/ViewImage.asp?ID=74384
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal
amount of one securities issue amounting to a total of US$50
million on August 9, 2007 at a redemption price equal to 100
per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued
interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
GERRESHEIMER GROWTH...
DUSSELDORF: Gerresheimer AG continued its growth trend in
the first-half of 2007, which ended on May 31. Sales, which
were consolidated with the sales of Wilden AG for the first
time, 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 Internet
Service Provider (ISP) and one of the fastest growing providers
in Asia, is implementing Oversi's caching and content delivery
platform to manage the growing P2P (peer-to-peer) traffic load
on its network and optimize the delivery of commercial media
content to its customers.
http://www.oversi.com
http://www.truecorp.co.th /
ACONEX SELECTED...
BUCHAREST: Aconex, has been selected by project management
firm PCMG to provide its online information management service
to three major residential and hospitality developments located
near Mamaia beach and within Constanta in Romania.
www.aconex.com
TELEKOM RESULTS...
KUALA LUMPUR: Telekom Malaysia Berhad recorded an impressive
18.9 percent growth in international revenues in the first half
of 2007, rising to RM2.27 billion from RM1.91 billion during
the same period last year.
www.tm.com.my
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