SYDNEY--24 Oct--AsiaNet/InfoQuest STARHILL GALLERY... KUALA LUMPUR: Starhill Gallery, in collaboration withTourism Malaysia, proudly presents A Journey Through Time. Thisinaugural luxury watch and jewellery showcase will be hosted inKuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 3rd December to 12th December inconjunction with Visit Malaysia Year 2007 and the country's50th independence anniversary. DIGI INTERNATIONAL... MINNEAPOLIS: Digi International Inc. was named one of"America's 200 Best Small Companies" by Forbes magazine.www.digi.com BRUKER ANNOUNCES... BEIJING: During the BCEIA 2007 conference, BrukerBioSciences Corp. and the Bruker BioSpin group of companiesannounce the official opening of their new Beijing modernapplications, demonstration and customer training laboratory,showcasing a wide selection of novel life science and materialsresearch, as well as industrial analysis systems.www.bruker-biosciences.comwww.bruker.com.cnwww.bruker.com NICKEL PRODUCER... SYDNEY: Allegiance Mining is pleased to present itsquarterly results ending 30th September 2007. Following are themain points of what has been achieved. A full copy is availableon the Allegiance mining website.www.allegiance-mining.com.auwww.allegiance-mining.com.au/default.asp?id=21 COMMUNICATIONS CHANNEL... SAN FRANCISCO, California: The Messaging Anti-Abuse WorkingGroup, representing almost one billion mailboxes from some ofthe largest network operators worldwide, has launched the MAAWGAbuse Contact Database as a new online communications channelto improve industry cooperation among service providers, volumesenders and email vendors.www.maawg.org FREEDOM ANNOUNCES... NEW YORK: Freedom Acquisition Holdings, Inc. announced thatit has been approved to submit an application to list itscommon stock, warrants and units, and expects to begin trading,on the New York Stock Exchange on or about November 5, 2007,under the symbols GLG, GLG WS and GLG.U, respectively.www.sec.gov ANADIGICS ANNOUNCES... WARREN, New Jersey: ANADIGICS, Inc., a leading provider ofsemiconductor solutions in the rapidly growing broadbandwireless and wireline communications markets, reported recordquarterly third quarter 2007 net sales of US$59.5 million, anincrease of 10.5 per cent compared with net sales of US$53.9million in the prior quarter, and an increase of 35.5 per centcompared to net sales of US$43.9 million in the year agoquarter.www.anadigics.com FOUNDATION PUBLISHES... MANILA: Mindanao, home to a majority of the country'sMuslims, is a region suffering from poor infrastructure, highpoverty, and violence that has claimed the lives of more than120,000 in the last three decades. At a ceremony held at theIntercontinental Hotel Manila, The Asia Foundation releasedRido: Clan Feuding and Conflict Management in Mindanao, thedefinitive reference book on clan violence and resolution inthe Philippines.www.asiafoundation.org FURNITURE SHOW... BENTO GONCALVES: From March 24 to 28, 2008, the mostrepresentative international trade show in Latin America, nowin its sixteenth edition, will take place in the city of BentoGoncalves in southern Brazil.www.movelsul.com.br HIQUBE LAUNCHES... TROY, Michigan: HiQube LLC, a new business intelligencesoftware company, announced the worldwide availability ofHiQube, its high-performance business intelligence platform,featuring the ground-breaking HiQube technology.www.hiqube.comwww.altair.com SHAREHOLDERS APPROVE... HONG KONG: Shareholders of HKC (Holdings) Limited approvedat the Group's Special General Meeting the Subscription ofshares of HKC (HOLDINGS) by Cerberus Asia Capital Management,LLC or its affiliates, Penta Investment Advisers Ltd., andCreator Holdings Limited, and also the appointment of Ms.Teresa Yen as Non-Executive Director of the Group.www.hkcholdings.com ABORTION CONFERENCE... LONDON: Expanding access to safe abortion around the worldis on the agenda at the groundbreaking Global Safe AbortionConference in London. AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.