SYDNEY--18 Oct--AsiaNet/InfoQuestHYBRID VPN...NUREMBERG: NCP engineering GmbH, manufacturer of communication solutions, has extended its Secure EnterpriseSolution with an additional remote access component, the SSL -VPN Server. www.ncp.de/english/filedownload/DS_Enterprise_Server.pdf www.ncp.de/english/filedownload/Brochure_SSL_VPN.pdf BEST MAN...PERTH: New research shows that the Best Man may actually be unfairly maligned as the speaker most likely to make a mess ofa wedding day. Indeed, most likely to be shamefully unprepared at speech time is the Father of the Groom. The research,carried out by global online speech provider, Speechforyou.com covered speakers at weddings across the USA, Canada, UK andAustralia. www.speechforyou.com JOHNSON & JOHNSON...BEIJING: Johnson & Johnson has announced the establishment of the Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Institute to transformdiabetes care by providing comprehensive training on the latest practice standards, new diabetes tools and technologies andreimbursement solutions to physicians, nurses, physician assistants and diabetes educators around the globe.GLG RESULTS...LONDON: GLG Partners, a leading alternative asset manager which has agreed to engage in a reverse acquisition transactionwith Freedom Acquisition Holdings, Inc., will report its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30,2007 on Wednesday, October 24, 2007. www.glgpartners.com .VOEVEO COMPETITION...WELLINGTON: www.voeveo.co.uk marked its UK launch this week by announcing it will promote an international mobile contentcompetition. www.voeveo.co.uk WD HARD-DRIVE...TOKYO and FREMONT: Western Digital Corp. announced that it has achieved 520 Gb/in2 areal density -- the hard driveindustry's highest demonstrated density to date using continuous media. The company revealed the milestone this weekat the Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Conference in Tokyo after an earlier demonstration in California. www.westerndigital.com www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20000711/WDCLOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org EXPEDIA.CO.NZ LAUNCHES...BELLEVUE, Washington and AUCKLAND: Expedia, Inc., the world's leading online travel company, announced the launch ofits New Zealand website -- http://www.expedia.co.nz -- a full-service travel booking site designed specifically to meetthe needs of New Zealand travellers. www.expedia.com www.expediainc.com www.expedia.co.nz HAEMONETICS JAPAN...BRAINTREE, Massachusetts, and TOKYO: Haemonetics Corporation is pleased to announce that Keiko Hattori will join the Companyeffective October 22, 2007 as President, Haemonetics Japan. Ms. Hattori will replace Haemonetics Japan's current President,Ryoji Sakai, who previously announced plans to retire. www.haemonetics.com MALARIA ERADICATION...SEATTLE, Washington: Bill and Melinda Gates called on global leaders to embrace "an audacious goal - to reach a day when no humanbeing has malaria, and no mosquito on earth is carrying it." They delivered the call to action at a forum of 300 leading malaria scientists and policymakers from around the world. www.kaisernetwork.org/healthcast/malariaforum2007 TRANS-ORIENT PETROLEUM...VANCOUVER: Trans-Orient Petroleum Ltd. is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Alex P. Guidi as a Director ofthe Company. Mr. Guidi is the principal of International Resource Management Corp., a Vancouver-based privateholding company with investments in oil and gas and technology companies. http://transorient.com/shares-stock-oil.asp www.transorient.com PEARL REVIVAL...DUBAI: The Pearl Revival Committee has announced the first International Pearl Convention in November. The event willinclude the auction of the world's largest natural pearl. The aim of this ambitious project is to revive UAE's distinguishedpearling tradition and embed it as the keystone of the country's cultural identity. www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071017/278111 FANNIE MAE...WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$270million on October 27, 2007 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. Fannie Mae will also redeem US$100 million in MTN securities on October 29, 2007 www.fanniemae.com ATMEL DIRECTOR...ROUSSET: Atmel Corporation has announced the appointment of Christian Fleutelot as the new Head and Managing Director ofSecure Microcontroller Solutions Product Line. Atmel's SMS Product Line includes some of the industry's most advancedsecure microcontrollers for smart cards and embedded security systems. www.atmel.com PANACEA PHARMACEUTICALS...GAITHERSBURG, Maryland: Panacea Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that BC Detect, the Company's serum-based breastcancer diagnostic test, is now available from Panacea Laboratories. www.panacea-labs.com www.PanaceaPharma.com www.panaceapharma.com BAYER AGREEMENT...RALEIGH, North Carolina and WEST HAVEN, Connecticut: DARA BioSciences, Inc. and Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a U.S.subsidiary of Bayer HealthCare AG signed a license agreement granting DARA BioSciences exclusive worldwide rights to aseries of patents and compounds for the treatment of metabolic diseases, in particular type 2 diabetes and dyslipidemia. Leadcompounds are in later preclinical development. www.bayerhealthcare.com www.darabiosciences.com 4G MIGRATION...TEL AVIV: Celtro, a pioneer and leading global supplier of cellular backhaul switching solutions, announced the launch ofthe next-generation members of its DynaMate family, the DMT1000 and DMT4000 switches. www.celtro.com DOLPHIN TRADE...BYRON BAY: Two Emirates 'Skycargo' planes (Airbus A310-300s)arrived in Honiara. 28 dolphins are due to be flown outThursday to Dubai. The dolphins will be taken to the newly created The Palm Atlantis which is part owned by the UAEpowerful ruling elite.KONE ORDER...SHANGHAI: KONE has received a major order from Sun Hung Kai Properties Group to supply and install 99 elevators andescalators for the new Shanghai International Finance Centre in the heart of the Lujiazui financial centre in Pudong, the mostflourishing business hub of Shanghai, China. www.kone.com GERRESHEIMER GROWTH...DUSSELDORF: In the first nine months of its financial year (to 31 August), Gerresheimer AG has continued its dynamicearnings and sales trend unabated. www.gerresheimer.com/ir SLA SERVERS...SINGAPOREL: Webvisions Pte Ltd, a leading Asia-Pacific hosting and managed services provider, has announced the launchof "One Host in Asia" a web hosting service range that offers standardized co-location, dedicated server and managedconfigurations in Asia-Pacific data centres with the promise of "One NOC, One Bill, One Agreement." www.websitepulse.com www.webvisions.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. 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