SYDNEY--7 Nov--AsiaNet/InfoQuest SAFETY-KLEEN CHINA... PLANO, Texas and Shanghai: Safety-Kleen Systems, Inc., hasexpanded its operations into China, opening its first mainlandoffice on Oct. 10, 2007, in the Shanghai World Trade Tower.www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071106/LATU106www.safety-kleen.comhttp://photoarchive.ap.org PEABODY AUSTRALIA... ST. LOUIS: Peabody Energy today announced that JulianThornton has been named to the new position of Chief OperatingOfficer for Australia Operations. Thornton will report toManaging Director of Australia Operations Ian Craig.www.peabodyenergy.com CDMA2000 SISVEL... TURIN: SISVEL announced today that it is acting as thefacilitator for the creation of a joint CDMA2000 patent licenseand is issuing a call for patents and other enforceable patentrights that are essential to the CDMA2000 standard.www.3gpp2.org/Public_html/specs/index.cfmwww.sisvel.com GEELY LOGO... BEIJING: Zhejiang Geely Holding Group announced today thatthe new Geely logo was unveiled at Beijing Geely University onNovember 6. The new logo is the result of a global designcontest lasting over 300 days.www.xprn.com/xprn/sa/200711070151.jpgwww.geely-global.com FOSRENOL STUDY... PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania and Basingstoke: Shire plc todayannounced the results of a Phase II study indicating thatFOSRENOL can effectively reduce serum phosphate levels inchronic kidney disease patients not on dialysis.www.fosrenol.comwww.shire.com SIERRA WIRELESS... VANCOUVER: Sierra Wireless today announced that a Fujitsunotebook computer to be AirCard Enabled with Sierra Wirelessembedded modules is now certified and available for use on theNTT DoCoMo network in Japan.www.sierrawireless.com/product/mc878x.aspxwww.sierrawireless.com SUPERMICRO SERVER... SAN JOSE, California: Super Micro Computer, Inc., a leaderin application optimized high performance server solutions,today introduced a new addition to the SuperBlade family. With16 cores and 64GB of DDR2 memory, the SuperBlade SBA-7141M-Tenables 160 processor cores and 640GB of DDR2 memory in tenblades per 7U enclosure, which also supports up to fournetworking switches.www.supermicro.comwww.Supermicro.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$825million on November 16 at a redemption price equal to 100percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.Fannie Mae will also redeem the principal amount of FINSsecurities issues amounting to a total of US$5.049 million onNovember 16 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of theprincipal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.http://www.fanniemae.com OpenTV DEAL... SAN FRANCISCO: OpenTV Corp., a leading provider of solutionsfor the delivery of advanced digital television and crossplatform interactive services, announced today that Sun DirectTV has selected OpenTV to provide the end-to-end solution anddeployment management enabling its digital televisionservices.www.opentv.comwww.sec.gov MICREL PRESIDENT... SAN JOSE, California: Micrel Inc., an industry leader inanalog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet ICsolutions, today announced that Andrew Cowell has been namedthe Company's new Vice President of Analog Marketing.www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071106/AQTU125www.micrel.comhttp://photoarchive.ap.orghttp://asianetnews.net/ViewImage.asp?ID=82742 KELLWOOD SHIRTS... ST. LOUIS: Kellwood Company announced today that its Boardof Directors has unanimously approved the sale of its SmartShirts manufacturing operations as well as related real estateassets in two separate transactions that will bring Kellwoodgross proceeds of approximately US$161 million in cash in theaggregate.www.kellwood.com PUB CRAWL... PERTH: The first round-the-world pub crawl has been set fordeparture on March 24, 2008 from London, offering travellers amonth-long party across four continents. It covers 11 worldwidedestinations: London, Munich, Prague, Reykjavik, Dusseldorf,tiny Maria Alm in Austria, Phuket, Auckland and Queenstown inNew Zealand, Honolulu and Cancun.www.WorldsBiggestPubCrawl.comwww.worldsbiggestpubcrawl.com BIGGEST UNDERWEAR... SYDNEY: In an effort to secure a position in the GuinnessWorld Records book, aussieBum will unveil what is believed tobe the Worlds Largest pair of mens underwear.Measuring in at 15.5 metres wide and 11 metres high, with a waist circumferenceof 32 metres, the mammoth pair of undies is the size of thefront of a three-storey building.www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GbOfLka_IEhttp://aussiebumvideo.com/rssforcedownload.php?file=promo1_bigundies_aussiebum.mov INDIA CARES... NEW DELHI: AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which operates freeAIDS treatment clinics in India that provide treatment, careand support services to over 5,000 Indian clients, is honoredto announce that it is also now providing lifesavingsecond-line antiretroviral treatment free to Indian AIDSactivists whose initial, or first-line, AIDS drug regimens havefailed them.www.aidshealth.org SANOFI PASTEUR... PARIS: Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division ofsanofi-aventis Group, announced today positive results in thedevelopment of a vaccine for the global prevention of denguefever, one of the most widespread tropical diseases.www.sanofipasteur.comwww.sanofipasteur.ushttp://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2001WHO_CDS_CPE_SMT_2001.9.pdf NOBLE RESULTS... HONG KONG: Noble Group Limited, a leading global supplychain manager of agricultural, industrial and energy products,will report 2007 Third Quarter financial results and discussits management outlook on Monday 12th November 2007.www.thisisnoble.com CHINA OPEN... BEIJING: An official press conference for the China Open2007 was held on Nov. 5, 2007 at the Beijing Shangri-la Hotel. The conferencewas held to celebrate the upgrading of ChinaOpen tournament into the ATP 500 Series. THOMSON SCIENTIFIC... PHILADELPHIA and London: Thomson Scientific, part of TheThomson Corporation and leading provider of informationsolutions to the worldwide research and business communities,today revealed new research comparing patenting numbers inJapan to those in Brazil, India, Russia and China, some of theworld's most important emerging economic markets.http://scientific.thomson.comhttp://scientific.thomson.com/products/dwpi/www.business-i.net/event/pif AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.