SYDNEY--18 Sep--AsiaNet/InfoQuest MOBILE ASIA... HONG KONG: An unprecedented gathering of leading operatorCEOs will debate the future of the mobile industry at theGSMA's Mobile Asia Congress at the new Venetian Macau Resort onNovember 12-15.www.mobileasiacongress.com/enwww.gsmworld.com ABORTION CONFERENCE... LONDON: The Marie Stopes International Global Conference onSafe Abortion: Whose Right? Whose Choice? Who Cares? whichtakes place in London in October has attracted some extremelyhigh-profile speakers, including DfID's new Under Secretary ofState for International Development, Baroness Shriti Vadera,and Bert Koenders, the Minister for Development Cooperation inthe Netherlands.www.globalsafeabortion.org TEXAS AMERICAN... AUSTIN, Texas: Texas American Resources-Asia Ltd., anaffiliate of Texas American Resources Company, Austin, Texas,has announced the appointment of Mr. Bryan Yam to the positionof Vice President of International Business Developmenteffective August 1, 2007.www.texasarc.com TEXAS AMERICAN... AUSTIN, Texas: Texas American Resources-Asia Ltd. hasannounced the start of a 3D seismic survey over the Panyuprospect area of PSC 28/20 covering 850 square kilometres inthe Pearl River Mouth Basin of the South China Sea, China.www.texasarc.com PSYCHIATRIC CONFERENCE... BETHESDA, Maryland: Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of theNational Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the NationalInstitutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, will speak atthe 2007 World Psychiatric Regional Meeting & Chinese Societyof Psychiatry Annual Congress in Shanghai in September.www.nih.govwww.wpanet.orgwww.drugabuse.gov RELOADED STUDIOS... FRANKFURT and SEOUL: Reloaded Studios, a recently formedKorean game development company, announce that they haveentered into a licensing agreement with Crytek, the Germandevelopers of the highly anticipated upcoming release, Crysis,for use of the award winning CryENGINE 2 middleware to developtheir new Action Strategy MMORPG.www.crytek.comwww.reloadedstudios.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$250million on September 25, 2007 at a redemption price equal to100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. Fannie Mae will also redeem US$100 million in MTNRsecurities issues on September 24, 2007 and US$1 billion in MTNsecurities issues on September 27, 2007.www.fanniemae.com THOMSON SCIENTIFIC... CHENNAI: Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporationand leading provider of information solutions to the worldwideresearch and business communities, announced that The Councilfor Scientific and Industrial Research has purchased ThomsonScientific's ISIWeb of Knowledge platform to substantiate theirresearch excellence & knowledge domain.www.thomson.comwww.scientific.thomson.comwww.csir.res.in AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.