SYDNEY--3 Sep--AsiaNet /InfoQuest ASADA CLEARS... SYDNEY - The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) has closed its examination of a sample provided by Ian Thorpe on 29 May 2006. IAN THORPE... SYDNEY - Ian Thorpes manager, David Flaskas said, We are pleased with the results from the ASADA investigation, which found there was no case to answer and that ASADA consider the matter closed. FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of two securities issues amounting to a total of US$150 million on September 10 and 12 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON - Fannie Mae announced its calendar for issuing Benchmark Securities(R) in 2008. http://www.fanniemae.com CARSEM SELECTS... BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. - Eagle Test Systems, Inc., announced that Carsem, a leading provider of turn-key assembly and test services including wafer probe, final test, product engineering and test program/hardware development for the semiconductor industry, has selected Eagle Test Systems as their mixed-signal and analog platform of choice for true parallel multi-site test. http://www.eagletest.com http://www.carsem.com U-BLOX ENHANCES... THALWIL and MUNICH - u-blox, the leading Swiss provider of GPS receiver technology, has improved its groundbreaking GPS dead reckoning system by integrating a gyroscope sensor from Epson Toyocom, a leader in the design and manufacture of crystal-based electronic products, into the reference design for the product. http://www.u-blox.com http://www.u-blox.com/shop http://www.u-blox.com/news/DR_EvalKit.jpg http://www.epsontoyocom.co.jp/english SUPREME MASTER... LOS ANGELES - Supreme Master Television, a pioneer of 24-hour positive programming, is celebrating its one year anniversary with a prime-time special highlighting peace developments around the world. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070901/NYSA002 http://photoarchive.ap.org http://www.suprememastertv.com CLEXANE/LOVENOX... PARIS - sanofi-aventis announced today that one year findings from the landmark ExTRACT-TIMI 25 and STEEPLE studies confirm clear net clinical benefit for patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) for Lovenox vs Unfractionnated Heparin (UFH). WORLD PV... MILAN - Worldwide leaders in the PV industry will be gathering in Milan, Italy from September 3rd-7th, 2007 for the 22nd annual European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference. http://www.invest-in-germany.com ATLAS COPCO... ANTWERP - Atlas Copco has yet again proven its world leadership in air-compressor manufacturing - with new ISO 8573-1 CLASS 0 certificates for oil-free air compressors in the centrifugal, tooth, scroll and water-injected screw ranges. http://www.atlascopco.com http://www.classzero.com PENINSULA TOKYO... TOKYO - The Peninsula Hotels' rich history, glamour and legendary service arrived in Japan with the opening of its eighth hotel, The Peninsula Tokyo, on September 1, 2007. www.peninsula.com www.leonardo.com/peninsula OPUS STRENGTHENS... WELLINGTON - OPUS STRENGTHENS AUSTRALIAN PRESENCE Opus International Consultants (Opus), the New Zealand based global consultancy announced that it had acquired the large Australian based infrastructure consultancy QantecMcWilliam Consulting Engineers. AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.