SYDNEY--11 Sep--AsiaNet/InfoQuest PERFECT WORLD... BEIJING: Beijing Perfect World Co., Ltd., theinternationally-renown online game developer and publisher, hasrecently signed a formal contract with CFGC. An agreement wasreached on the cooperation of a 3D MMORPG named "The War of theRed Cliff," also the name of a popular Chinese film, which willbe launched in the fourth quarter of 2007 by Beijing PerfectWorld. TIBCO AFFIRMS... PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA: TIBCO Software Inc. Tuesday announcedseveral projects intended to help foster innovation and growthin Beijing and across Greater China. TIBCO reinforces itscommitment to the region with the launch of a China DevelopmentCenter as part of a strategic partnership with Worksoft and aneducational program dubbed `The Power of You' which invitesstudents and professionals to take part in a developer contestto build web applications using Ajax and service-orientedarchitecture principles.http://www.tibco.com SEXTANT PREDICTS... TORONTO: Otto Spork, founder of Sextant Capital Management,considered to be one of the top 100 Hedge Fund managers in theworld today (Bloomberg, Globe & Mail 2007), predicts, thecoming 'Water Shock' will be of exponentially greatersignificance than any oil shock has been in the past. Water isand will continue to grow in scarcity and strategic importance,to become the most important and most talked about commodity inthe world."www.sextantcapital.com ACADEMY JOINS... WASHINGTON: The U.S. National Academy of Sciences and theGlobal Health and Education Foundation are joining withscience, engineering, and medical academies worldwide to takeaction on the drinking water crisis facing many countries bylaunching the web resource - "Safe Drinking Water IsEssential."www.drinking-water.orgwww.koshland-science-museum.orgwww.waterleaders.orgwww.national-academies.org DENIM DEALS... LOS ANGELES: Citizens of Humanity, a leader in denim designand fashion apparel, announced Tuesday that it has joinedforces with denim industry pioneer, Adriano Goldschmied. Mr.Goldschmied will join the company as a partner and ExecutiveVice President of Product Development.www.citizensofhumanity.com ABE DELIVERS... TOKYO: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivered a general policyspeech in a plenary session of the Diet on September 10, 2007.Prime Minister Abe stated in his speech, "I would like tofulfill my responsibilities to the people by further advancingreforms with renewed determination, with the remorse based onthe harsh election results and the resolve to fight for thepeople."www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/abespeech/2007/09 10syosin_e.html THOMSON PROVIDES... PHILADELPHIA: Thomson Scientific, part of The ThomsonCorporation and leading provider of information solutions tothe worldwide research and business communities, announcedMonday the release of BONDplus, an integrated, web-based dataplatform to address the information and analytic needs ofbiological researchers.www.scientific.thomson.com LECTURE FEATURES... NEW YORK: Platts, a leading global provider of energy andmetals information and a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies,Monday announced that the Platts Lecture Series will launch onNovember 29, 2007, with a presentation by Gene Sperling.www.platts.comwww.mcgraw-hill.comwww.rwbeck.com FORUM FORMS... SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA: The WLCSP Forum Monday announced itsformation, and named its board. The group's objectives are topromote the adoption of semiconductor devices using wafer levelchip scale packages (WLCSP), to establish industry sponsored"best practices" for their utilization and to establishstrategies for migration to finer pitch WLCSP products.www.wlcspforum.orgwww.smta.org/iwlpc BANKS SELECTED... SAO PAULO: Itausa - Investimentos Itau S.A. and Banco ItauHolding Financeira S.A. are pleased to inform that they havebeen selected to compose Dow Jones Sustainability World Index(DJSI) portfolio for its 2007/2008 edition, together with 316other companies from all over the world. Itau remains the onlyLatin-American bank to participate in the index since itscreation in 1999, while Itausa will integrate the indexportfolio for the 4th time.www.itau.com SUMMIT PLANNED... DALLAS: "Ignite the Promise: Global Advocate Summit" is afirst-of-its-kind meeting of breast cancer activists fromaround the world in Budapest, Hungary on September 29-30, 2007.The Summit is organized by Susan G. Komen for the Cure, theworld's largest breast cancer organization.www.komen.org ATMEL'S APPLICATIONS... HEILBRONN: Atmel Corporation announced Monday theavailability of the new ATA5723, ATA5724, and ATA5728 UHF ASKFSK receiver ICs, extending Atmel's existing broad portfolio ofautomotive RF devices. These three new devices offer the bestcompromise between high integration, outstanding performance,and worldwide frequency coverage.www.atmel.com REALSOFTWARE IMPROVES... AUSTIN, Texas: REAL Software, provider of REALbasic,Cross-Platform That Really Works, announced Monday thatREALbasic 2007 Release 4 is available now. REALbasic 2007Release 4 focuses on modernization and stability, with over 80improvements and 9 new features including Ubuntu support,faster ODBC and faster database access.www.realsoftware.com STARTECH APPOINTS... WILTON: Startech Environmental Corp., a fully reportingcompany, announced Monday that it has appointed Waste 2 GreenEnergy Limited, headquartered in London and with a presence inPoland, as the Company's exclusive distributor for the UnitedKingdom and also for the Republic of Poland.www.startech.net PLATTS LAUNCHES... NEW YORK: Platts, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companiesand a leading global provider of energy and metals information,Monday began publishing a dozen new daily price assessments ofsteel product and scrap in Steel Markets Daily, one of its 70core global news and pricing products.www.platts.comwww.mcgraw-hill.com SGI RENEWS... TOKYO: Soka Gakkai International (SGI) organizations aroundthe world have held events calling for the abolition of nuclearweapons, commemorating the 50th anniversary of second SokaGakkai president Josei Toda's call for the abolition of nuclearweapons.www.sgi.org CHINA OPEN... BEIJING: China Open Promotions Limited announced Monday thatfollowing two days of qualifying matches, the 2007 China Openhas officially started the main draws for both the ATP and ITFrounds. CLINSYS APPOINTS... BERKELEY HEIGHTS and RALEIGH: Clinsys Clinical Research,Inc., a therapeutically focused clinical research organization,Monday announced the appointments of Rajagopalan Srinivasan,Ph.D as Vice President, Global Biostatistics and ChristopherGregory, Ph.D as Scientific Affairs-Director.www.clinsyscro.comwww.jubl.comwww.gotcss.com TANDBERG ACQUIRES... SINGAPORE: TANDBERG, a global leader in visualcommunication, announced the acquisition of Codian, anaward-winning developer of high-definition videoconferencinginfrastructure products.http://www.codian.comhttp://www.tandberg.com LUSIGHT SIGNS... NEW YORK: Lusight Research, the leading independent providerof Emerging Markets research to institutional investors, ispleased to announce it has signed an agreement with Goldman,Sachs and Co.'s Hudson Street Services platform. Under theagreement, Hudson Street Services will introduce Lusight'sunique set of products and services, via the Hudson StreetServices platform, to Goldman Sachs' institutional clients.www.lusight.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.