SYDNEY--16 Oct--AsiaNet/InfoQuest GAMING EXPO... AUCKLAND: The organisers of the New Zealand Gaming Expo areproud to confirm Sir Richard Hadlee, Mr Rod McGeoch and MrAllan Pease as presenters during the trade shows conferenceprogram at the SKYCITY Auckland Convention Centre March 4-5,2008. www.NZGamingExpo.com www.agmma.com LEBRON SHOE... SHANGHAI: Nike, Inc. CEO and President Mark Parker and USABasketball superstar LeBron James show the just launched ZoomLeBron James V China Edition in Shanghai. http://asianetnews.net/ViewImage.asp?ID=80503 OUTSOURCING INNOVATION... MUMBAI: Ben Trowbridge, CEO of award-winning advisory firmAlsbridge Inc., travels this week to India to meet with leadersof outsourcing companies to discuss what Alsbridge hasidentified as a crisis of innovation. www.alsbridge.com LEBRON SHOE... SHANGHAI: On Monday, LeBron James was at a consumer event inShanghai with Mark Parker, President and CEO of Nike, Inc. tolaunch his LeBron V China colorway, which hits retail stores onTuesday across China. LeBron's newest ad campaign launches thisweek in China. www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071015/AQM163 http://photoarchive.ap.org www.nikebiz.com POVERTY ACTION.... NEW YORK: On Tuesday October 16th, at 9:00 p.m. GMT,millions of people from all over the world are expected tobegin mobilizing in the largest ever call to action againstpoverty and inequality and in support of the MillenniumDevelopment Goals. www.standagainstpoverty.org http://standagainstpoverty.org/press/conference www.whiteband.org www.endpoverty2015.org SMART MOVE... DENVER: Smart Move, Inc., a Denver based asset logisticsmanager, announced that its subsidiary, Rapid ID, Inc., anasset tracking and location company using patented mobilecommunications technology, has formed an alliance with TrunkbowTechnologies of China for marketing of the Rapid ID technologysolution in the Chinese marketplace. www.gosmartmove.com www.rapidid.com STARTECH ENVIRONMENTAL... WILTON, Connecticut: Startech Environmental Corp., a fullyreporting company and the internationally recognized,award-winning environment and energy company announced that itsQuarterly Report, filed with the SEC on September 14, showsShareholders' Equity in excess of US$5 million withapproximately US$10 million in Cash on Hand, along with PlasmaConverter Systems Sales of approximately US$25 million. www.startech.net www.prnewswire.com/comp/113537.html ATERAS IBM... DALLAS: ATERAS, a leading provider of 100 per cent automatedsolutions for legacy migration and modernization, announcedthat the company has signed a new contract with IBM GlobalServices for the conversion of certain CA-IDMS applications toCOBOL CICS DB2. www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060511/DATH001LOGO ) www.ateras.com . http://photoarchive.ap.org FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$250million on October 25, 2007 at a redemption price equal to 100per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. www.fanniemae.com PHOENIX TECHNOLOGIES... MILPITAS: Phoenix Technologies Ltd., announced PhoenixFailSafe for mobile PCs. With FailSafe, Phoenix PC OEM partnerscan embed an innovative command and control system into the PCcore firmware to track, control and recover lost or stolenmobile PCs. www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070410/SFTU048LOGO www.phoenix.com http://photoarchive.ap.org ARROW ASIA... HONG KONG: Arrow Asia Pac Ltd., a business unit of ArrowElectronics, Inc., announced that it has signed a distributionagreement for the Asia-Pacific region with Longsung, asubsidiary of a leading mobile handset OEM, Longcheer. www.arrowasia.com FEMALE PAIN... SEATTLE: The International Association for the Study of Painhas declared 2008 the Global Year Against Pain in Women to drawattention to the significant impact of chronic pain on womenand the need for more effective care. www.iasp-pain.org . PERFECT WORLD... BEIJING: Beijing Perfect World Network Technology Co., Ltd.announced that it was awarded ISO 9001:2000 Customer ServiceCertification on August 24, 2007. www.iso.org AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.