SYDNEY--14 Nov--AsiaNet/InfoQuest AUCTION HOUSE... HONG KONG: Atting House, the first Hong Kong-based auctionhouse to sell fine art through an entirely Internet-basedauction environment is to stage its debut online auction fromNovember 21-22 featuring over 130 works from 66 up and comingcontemporary Chinese artists.www.attinghouse.com RETAIL THEFT... HONG KONG: The first edition of the Global Retail TheftBarometer, conducted by the Center for Retail Research inNottingham, United Kingdom, and sponsored by CheckpointSystems, Inc., offers the first attempt to put a price tag onretail theft across the globe.www.retailresearch.orgwww.checkpointasiapac.com AGMMA LAUNCHES... CAIRNS: The Australasian Gaming Machine ManufacturersAssociation has launched its new "Responsible Gaming MachinePlay" leaflet, providing free, independent and accurateinformation about gaming machines in a simple and easy tounderstand format to assist players to make informeddecisions.www.agmma.com SCRABBLE CHAMPIONSHIP... NEW YORK: For the first time in history, India played hostto the 9th World Scrabble Championship in November 2007.Brought to India under the aegis of Mattel Toys (India) Pvt.Ltd, the World Scrabble Championship had over 110 playersrepresenting 42 countries vying for the coveted title. Thethree-day championship kick-started in Mumbai on November 9 andculminated with a mega final on November 12.http://media.medialink.com/WebNR.aspx?story=34098www.wscgames.comwww.mediaseed.tv/Story.aspx?story=34098www.wscgames.comwww.mediaseed.tv DIABETES DAY... NEW YORK: On the first United Nations World Diabetes Day,the International Diabetes Federation calls on governments todevelop national policies for the prevention, care andtreatment of diabetes and calls on donors worldwide to considerthe need for a diabetes global fund to tackle the growingdiabetes epidemic.www.idf.orgwww.worlddiabetesday.orgwww.thenewsmarket.com/wdd GERMANY HOSTS... DUSSELDORF: MEDICA is the world's leading medical industrytrade fair. Over 2,000 international exhibitors will gatherhere, from November 14th-17th, to present new advances andtechnologies for in-patient and out-patient care.www.invest-in-germany.com GOLDEN CHINA... TORONTO: Golden China Resources Corporation has released itsunaudited financial results for the three months endedSeptember 30, 2007.www.goldenchina.cawww.renmarkfinancial.com OQO WINS... SAN FRANCISCO and TOKYO: OQO Inc., creator of the world'ssmallest fully functional Windows Vista PC, announced that ithas received the prestigious Good Design Award 2007, sponsoredby the Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization.www.brule.co.jpwww.expansys.jpwww.oqo.com MICREL SHOWCASES... YOKOHAMA: Micrel, Inc., an industry leader in analog, highbandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, announcedthat it will showcase a new Ethernet solution at EmbeddedTechnology 2007.www.micrel.comwww.firecomms.com FIGHTING DIABETES... NEW YORK: The Global Partnership for Effective DiabetesManagement have called for an overhaul in the world's attitudeand approach toward diabetes treatment and prevention in orderto reverse the rising diabetes epidemic recently recognised bythe first United Nations World Diabetes Day.www.gsk.comwww.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/ijcp/61/s157 ENTREPRENEUR NOMINATED... MUNICH: T. Tyler Moebius, the Founder and CEO of AdconionMedia Group, a global advertising network, is one of theentrepreneurs nominated for the "Changing Times Award".www.adconion.comwww.vibrio.dehttp://presse.vibrio.de/info/45203http://presse.vibrio.de/info/43910 THE PLAZA... LAS VEGAS, Nevada: The Plaza, a brand known throughout theworld for luxurious elegance and beauty, begins the entry intothe Las Vegas gaming and hospitality market with the implosionof the Frontier Hotel & Casino.www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071113/LATU130-awww.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071113/LATU130-b NAVTEQ DEBUTS... CHICAGO, Illinois: NAVTEQ, a leading global provider ofdigital map data for location-based solutions and vehiclenavigation, is continuing its commitment to LBS development inthe Asia-Pacific region by exhibiting at the upcoming GSMAMobile Asia Congress, 12-15 November 2007, at The Venetian inMacao. This year will mark NAVTEQ's first appearance at theglobal mobile event.www.navteq.comwww.NN4D.comwww.LBSChallenge.comwww.mobileasiacongress.comwww.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060313/NAVTEQLOGO DIABETES DAY... PRINCETON, New Jersey: The Changing Diabetes Bus and Villagehosted visitors at New York City's Union Square Park, as itstour around the globe concluded on the eve of the first UnitedNations-sanctioned World Diabetes Day.http://novonordisk.comhttp://novonordisk-us.comhttp://changingdiabetes-us.comwww.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020404/NVOLOGO OPEC PUMPS... LONDON: The 12 members of the Organization of PetroleumExporting Countries (OPEC) pumped an average 31.11 millionbarrels per day (b/d) of crude oil in October, or a 350,000 b/dincrease from September, largely on higher volumes from SaudiArabia and Iraq, a Platts survey showed November 12.www.platts.comwww.opec.platts.comwww.mcgraw-hill.com CELEBRATING ENTREPRENEURSHIP... LONDON: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown joined CarlSchramm of the Kauffman Foundation in starting the countdown toGlobal Entrepreneurship Week 2008, the world's biggest singleevent celebrating and promoting entrepreneurship amongst youngpeople.www.unleashingideas.org FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of FINP, FINS, MTN and MTNR securities issues onNovember 23, 2007 at a redemption price equal to 100 per centof the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. FannieMae will also redeem the principal amount of MTN securitiesissues on November 24 and 28, 2007.www.fanniemae.com REAL SOFTWARE... AUSTIN, Texas: REAL Software, a leading developer ofcross-platform software for Windows, Macintosh and Linux,announced that REALbasic 2007 Release 5 is shipping.www.realsoftware.comwww.realsoftware.com/download "GREEN" OTIS... FARMINGTON, Connecticut: Otis Elevator Company, a unit ofUnited Technologies Corp., will supply and install 74 elevatorswith energy-efficient ReGen drives for Section B of ShanghaiWorld Expo Village, a major infrastructure project for the 2010World Expo in Shanghai.www.otis.com PICARRO ANNOUNCES... SUNNYVALE, California: Picarro, a leading manufacturer ofhigh-performance trace gas analyzers, announced that MichaelWoelk has joined the company as president and chief executiveofficer.www.picarro.com SCREEN AWARDS... GOLD COAST: Winners in the inaugural Asia Pacific ScreenAwards, the regions highest accolade in film in 2007, have beenannounced at a special ceremony on the Gold Coast, Queensland,Australia.www.asiapacificscreenawards.com NORKOM ANNOUNCES... DUBLIN: Norkom has announced a 53 per cent increase inrevenue to euro 17.6 million (US$25.8 million) and a 50 percent improvement in EBITDA (Earnings before interest, tax,depreciation and amortisation) to euro 3.1 million for the halfyear ended 30 September 2007. MOBILE PAYMENT... MACAO: Over the next several months, 12 mobile operatorswill run trials of contactless mobile payment services inAustralia, France, Ireland, Korea, Malaysia, Norway, ThePhilippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Turkey, and the U.S. as aprecursor to commercial launches.www.gsmworld.com RESEARCH REVEALS... MACAO: The global trade association for the mobile industry,the GSM Association, and Microsoft Corp. have published theresults of the first-ever consumer study into mobile broadbandcomputing that shows that there is a tremendous addressable -but currently untapped - market.www.gsmworld.com TANDBERG NAMED... SINGAPORE: TANDBERG, a leading global provider oftelepresence, high-definition videoconferencing and mobilevideo, has been named recipient of the 2008 Frost & SullivanGlobal Video Conferencing Company of the Year Award for itsexcellence in product innovation as well as market executionthat has accelerated the adoption of video conferencing.www.awards.frost.comwww.tandberg.com AIDS TREATMENT... NEW DELHI: As part of its ongoing global campaign to improveaccess to lifesaving AIDS treatments worldwide, AIDS HealthcareFoundation and a broad-based coalition of other internationaland Indian civil society partners and HIV/AIDS organizations,have joined together in a public appeal to the Honorable Dr.Manmohan Singh, India's Prime Minister, urging him to intercedeand help facilitate the rollout of lifesaving second-lineantiretroviral AIDS treatments in India.www.aidshealth.org NEUSTAR BUILDS... LONDON: NeuStar, Inc. announced that it has facilitated therollout of Windows Live Messenger with 3 Macao as part of 3'spopular X-Series brand, building upon the success of the mobileIM service with 3 Hong Kong.www.neustar.bizwww.neustar.biz/ngm AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.