SYDNEY--18 Sep--AsiaNet/InfoQuest OASMIA LISTS... UPPSALA: Oasmia Pharmaceutical, a pharmaceutical companybased on the most recent ideas in bio-organic chemistry, isbeing listed on NGM Equity in Sweden on September 18th 2007. http://www.oasmia.com ECVV.COM INTRODUCES... SHENZHEN: On September 20, ECVV.COM, the first internationaltrading website which charges according to results, will helpthe Shenzhen Council for Promotion of International Tradeintroduce the project "Shenzhen International Buying Network"to the world for the first time. http://www.ecvv.com TRUEPOSITION WINS... BERWYN: TruePosition, Inc., a leading provider of wirelesslocation technologies and solutions and a subsidiary of LibertyMedia Corporation, today announced that TruePosition has won apatent infringement suit against Andrew Corporation in theUnited States District Court in the District of Delaware,TruePosition, Inc. v. Andrew Corporation (Civ. No.05-747-SLR). http://www.trueposition.com DIRECTOR AWAITS... WASHINGTON: The U.S. Department of the Interior will waituntil next year to see if Congress addresses flawed oil andnatural gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico or leaves it togovernment agencies to do so, the new director of the MineralsManagement Service (MMS), Randall Luthi, said Monday at aPlatts Energy Podium roundtable in Washington. http://www.platts.com http://www.energypodium.platts.com http://www.mcgraw-hill.com MELLON ANNOUNCES... LONDON and NEW YORK: BNY Mellon Asset Management, the assetmanagement group of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation,has announced that the Qualified Domestic InstitutionalInvestor (QDII) mandate it sub-advises on behalf of ChinaSouthern Fund Management Co. Ltd has launched at a capped $4billion in assets having received $8bln in subscriptions fromChinese investors. http://www.bnymellon.com LIQUENT OFFERS... PHILADELPHIA and LONDON: Liquent, a Thomson business andglobal leader in providing regulatory software solutions,information products and related services for the life sciencesindustry, Monday announced the availability of freeeCTD-to-Regulated Product Submission conversion software, anevolving new electronic submission standard. http://www.scientific.thomson.com http://www.createrps.com MICROSOFT JUDGMENT... LUXEMBOURG: "This is a great day for European businesses andconsumers," said Thomas Vinje, ECIS Spokesman and LegalCounsel. "At long last, this decision opens the prospect fordynamic competition in the software industry. No more userlock-in, no more monopoly pricing." FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount for the following securities issues amounting to a totalof US$100,000,000 million on September 27, 2007/September 28,2007 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of theprincipal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com MICROSOFT RESPONDS... LUXEMBOURG: Statement attributable to Brad Smith, MicrosoftCorp. Senior Vice President and General Counsel immediatelyfollowing the Court's ruling: "Well, we've obviously only had avery short amount of time to read the decision that the courtissued today, and it's the type of decision that deserves thekind of time required to understand it thoroughly..." http://www.microsoft.com http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/contactpr.mspx . BANDWIDTH ENABLED... TOULOUSE and CAMAS: IntexyS Photonics SA and LightfleetCorporation announced an arrangement to combine opticalcomponent technologies to deliver an integrated, highperformance interconnect enabling continuously parallelcommunications in data and performance-intensive computing,communications and embedded systems applications. http://www.intexysphotonics.com SEGMENT SHAKE-UP... MUSCAT, CINCINNATI and LONDON: An Oman-based company, OctalHolding and Co. SAOC, is poised to shake up the clear rigidplastic packaging industry, with an integrated PET resin andAPET sheet manufacturing facility coming on stream in May2008. http://www.octalglobal.com MICREL EXTENDS... SAN JOSE: Micrel Inc., an industry leader in analog, highbandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, Mondaylaunched the MIC94070/1/2/3, a series of high-side loadswitches that extend Micrel's industry-leading family of high-side load switchproducts. http://www.micrel.com GONZALEZ WINS... BEIJING: On Sunday, in Beijing, Chile's Fernando Gonzalezwon the Men's China Open final 6-1 3-6 6-1 against Spain'sTommy Robredo. SCOUT24 ACQUIRES... MUNICH: Scout24 AG is using its preferential purchase rightand will acquire the shares in ImmobilienScout24 which are tobe sold by Aareal Bank meaning that the Munich-based companywhich previously had a minority interest of 33.1% will infuture own 99.3% of Immobilien Scout GmbH in Berlin. http://www.scout24.com STELLAR ENTERS... LONDON: Stellar, a leading global call centre and businessprocess outsourcing provider, Monday announced their entry intothe UK outsourcing market after the re-branding of ExcellContact Centres (a prominent UK call centre outsourcingprovider based in Scotland) to Stellar UK. www.stellarbpo.com NOVATRIX FORMS... SACRAMENTO: Novatrix Biomedical, Inc. announced Sunday thatit has formed a new company, Curexo Medical, Inc, with theacquisition of all assets of Integrated Surgical Systems, Inc(ISS). including the former officers and employees of ISS inorder to facilitate rapid introduction of its surgical roboticssystem into the U.S. orthopedic market. http://www.robodoc.com DISASTER QUESTIONS... BRISBANE: Twelve year old Chiara said on the Charles WooleyAcross Australia program Monday that, despite governmentssaying that there are plans in place to deal with disasters,the governments around the world appears to have neglected tocommunicate these plans to the community in a way that thenormal everyday person can understand. www.psp.org.au AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.