SYDNEY--24 Sep--AsiaNet/InfoQuest AIR CANADA... HONG KONG: Air Canada has introduced, for the first timeoutside of North America, its popular Flight Passes designedspecially for residents of Hong Kong seeking great deals forfrequent travel to Canada.www.aircanada.com HALAL FAIR... BEIJING: Hosted by the China Council for the Promotion ofInternational Trade, and in cooperation with the People'sGovernment of Qinghai Province, China (Qinghai), theInternational Halal Food and Products Fair is to be held onNovember 1-3, 2007 in Qinghai, China.www.halalfair.org PSYCHOLOGICAL SCARS... BARCELONA: A devastating moment for a woman undergoingtreatment for early breast cancer is to hear from her physicianthat, despite their best efforts, the disease has returned andshe is no longer curable. Presented for the first time at theEuropean Cancer Conference, an international survey of over1,000 physicians and patients showed that physicians are alsodeeply affected by these negative conversations.www.astrazenecapressoffice.com HKC (HOLDINGS)... HONG KONG: HKC (Holdings) Limited has announced its interimresults for the six months ended 30 June 2007.www.hkcholdings.com QUELLOS OPENS... SEATTLE, Washington: Quellos Group, LLC has announced theopening of its Hong Kong office. PINK DIAMONDS... ARGYLE: Diamond experts and high society figures across theglobe are preparing for the 23rd annual Rio Tinto DiamondsArgyle Pink Diamond Tender held in Perth (September 11-14th2007), Hong Kong (September 18th - 28th 2007) and New York(October 1st - 12th 2007). INMAGE SYSTEMS... SANTA CLARA, California: InMage Systems, Inc., the leadingprovider of business continuity and disaster recovery softwarefor small, medium and large enterprises, announced they haveopened a new office near London, England.www.inmage.net CARS PRESENTED... MANTOVA: Centro Ricerche Fiat presented three Nuvera FuelCell-powered Panda cars to the municipality of Mantova as partof the Zero Regio project.www.nuvera.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamounts indicated for various securities issues on theredemption dates indicated below at a redemption price equal to100 per cent of the principal amounts redeemed, plus accruedinterest thereon to the date of redemption.www.fanniemae.com CAR JV... JINHUA CITY and SANTA ROSA, California: In a jointstatement, USA electric car pioneer ZAP and Youngman AutomotiveGroup, China's number one luxury motor coach and high-qualitycommercial truck manufacturer, have signed a joint ventureagreement to manufacture, market and distribute electric andhybrid vehicles for the passenger car, truck and bus markets.www.zapworld.com GFI APPOINTS... NEW YORK: GFI Group Inc., an inter-dealer brokerage, marketdata and analytical software provider for global cash andderivative markets, has announced the appointment of JurgenBreuer as Senior Managing Director - Head of E-Commerce.www.gfigroup.com THOMSON APPOINTS... HONG KONG: Thomson Financial, an operating unit of TheThomson Corporation and leading provider of information andtechnology solutions to the worldwide financial community, hasannounced that Siva Ahnantham has been appointed BusinessDevelopment Director - South East Asia.www.thomson.com GLIDE MOBILE... NEW YORK: Glide Mobile is available for Chinese mobile phoneusers in a localized version at www.GlideMobile.com.www.transmediacorp.comwww.GlideOS.comwww.GlideMobile.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.