SYDNEY--15 Aug--AsiaNet/InfoQuest ARROW TOP... HONG KONG - Arrow Asia Pac Ltd., a business unit of Arrow Electronics, Inc.,announced that it received top rankings for the third consecutive year in Chinaand Asia in EDN Magazine's 2007 Worldwide Branding Study. www.arrowasia.com RHINOS 2007... SYDNEY - The official 2007 rhinos Urban Music Awards will take place tonightat Luna Park in Sydney with red carpet arrivals from 5.15pm. WORLD-CLASS UNIVERSITY... MELBOURNE - As the University of Melbourne launches Australias firstcomprehensive graduate schools as part of its innovative Melbourne Modeleducation reforms, New Zealanders considering postgraduate study will have achance to explore their options at a graduate expo to be held at the AucklandConvention Centre, tomorrow, 15 August. www.futurestudents.unimelb.edu.au GTL, NAVINI... BANGALORE and RICHARDSON, Texas - Navini Networks, a leading provider ofMobile WiMAX solutions, announced it has signed a Value Added Services (VAS)agreement with GTL Limited, India's largest Network Services provider to theworld, to provide services and solutions to Telecom operators deployingNavini's Mobile WiMAX solutions. http://www.navini.com http://www.gtllimited.com OMNIVISION INTRODUCES... SUNNYVALE, Calif. - OmniVision Technologies, Inc., a leading independentsupplier of CMOS CameraChip(TM) image sensors for high-volume applications,unveiled near infrared (NIR) capability, an important proprietary enhancement,to its portfolio of single-chip automotive CMOS image sensors. http://www.ovt.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C. - Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of fivesecurities issues amounting to a total of US$420 million on August 24, 2007 ata redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plusaccrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com MATTEL ANNOUNCES... SYDNEY - Mattel voluntarily extended the recall in relation to the leadissue announced on 2 August, adding one new item to the current list of 8recalled products. www.service.mattel.com www.mattel.com www.fisher-price.com HARVARD LAW... SINGAPORE - Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson will announce aninternational effort to organize "poker strategic thinking societies" atuniversities and secondary schools around the world that will use poker as aneducational tool to teach everything from basic life skills to war games atmilitary colleges. http://www.gpsts.com http://www.nyls.edu/pages/2396.asp WEATHER CHANNEL... DUBLIN, WASHINGTON and ATLANTA, GA. - dotMobi, the consortium behind thefirst and only Internet address created for mobile phones, announced that TheWeather Channel Interactive has become the first company to secure rights to apremium .mobi domain through participation in a unique Request for Proposal(RFP) premium name process. http://mtld.mobi http://blog.mobi SUPERDERIVATIVES ACCELERATES... LONDON and NEW YORK - SuperDerivatives, the benchmark for options and theleading multi-asset derivatives solutions provider for real-time optionpricing, independent revaluation, derivatives data, online trading and riskmanagement systems, announced the opening of new sales and support offices inSydney, Australia and Hong Kong. http://www.superderivatives.com URBAN SCIENCE... DETROIT - Urban Science, a global retail channel consulting firm inautomotive, financial services and retailing industries, today announced it hasopened a second office in China. http://www.urbanscience.com ACTIVIDENTITY TO... CANBERRA - ActivIdentity Corporation, a global leader in digital identityassurance, will be exhibiting its Smart Employee ID, the all in one smart cardfor building, workstation, and network access, and Smart Citizen ID at theTechnology in Government & the Public Sector Canberra Summit 2007. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20051108/SFTU161LOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org http://www.actividentity.com http://www.acevents.com.au/ausgovtech2007/ ASIAN AUTISM... HONG KONG - Autism Parents Network Foundation (APNF), a Hong Kong-basedparents support group, is hosting the Second Asian Autism Conference 2007following the success of last summer's inaugural conference. http://www.conference.autismpnhk.org http://www.autismpnhk.org AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.