SYDNEY--12 Dec--AsiaNet/InfoQuest PROTESTORS HIGHLIGHT... MELBOURNE - Large protests in Wellington, Christchurch,Dunedin and in front of ANZ branches throughout five states inAustralia Wednesday demanded that the ANZ bank stop fundingforest destruction in Papua New Guinea (PNG), and in theAustralian state of Tasmania.www.wilderness.org.au MACKENZIE ASSESSES... SINGAPORE and EDINBURGH - Wood Mackenzie's analysis of theclean fuels race in Asia Pacific shows that the cost torefiners of compliance with Euro IV quality standards forgasoline and diesel could run to as much as US$25 billion intotal.www.woodmac.com.www.woodmac.com/cleanfuelsasia WORLDWIDE FIRST... GMUNDEN - The long standing collaboration between theAustrian companies STEYR MOTORS has now resulted in theexciting commercial launch of the worldwide first serial HybridPropulsion System for pleasure boats at "Boot Dusseldorf" inJanuary 2008.http://www.steyr-motors.comhttp://www.frauscherboats.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of FINP securities issues amounting to a total ofUS$10,560,000 on December 21, 2007 at a redemption price equalto 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest.http://www.fanniemae.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of FINS securities issues amounting to a total ofUS$10,006,000 on December 21, 2007 at a redemption price equalto 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest.http://www.fanniemae.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$345million on December 21, 2007 at a redemption price equal to 100per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest.http://www.fanniemae.com PNL OFFERS... SEOUL - PNL Networks Co. Ltd., the technology arm of globallogistics service provider PNL Group, Wednesday announced ithas contracted with Savi Networks to enable PNL to offer itscustomers advanced logistics services, based on wirelessmonitoring technology.http://www.savi.com ENTRUST PROVIDES... DALLAS - The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's strategice-government initiative needed a strong security foundation toinstill trust in its more citizen-centric environment; toaddress this challenge, Saudi Arabia's Ministry ofCommunication and Information Technology standardized twosolutions from Entrust, Inc. in conjunction with Entrust localpartner Moammar Information Systems.http://www.entrust.com BRAZIL HOSTS... BENTO GONCALVES - Salao Design Movelsul, a traditionalfurniture design competition, is held alongside the largestfurniture trade show in Latin America, MOVELSUL BRASIL 2008.http://www.movelsul.com.brhttp://www.salaodesign.com.br AGILYSYS LAUNCHES... BOCA RATON - Agilysys, Inc., a leading provider ofinnovative IT solutions, including specifically-designedhospitality industry solutions, and Planet Payment, a leadinginternational multi-currency payment and data processor,announced Tuesday the launch of a solution for integratedpayment systems for the lodging, restaurant and retailsectors.http://www.agilysys.comhttp://www.planetpayment.com METALDYNE MOVES... TOKYO - Metaldyne Company LLC, an Asahi Tec company, hasmoved its Japan branch office from Yokohama to Tokyo and hasopened an office in Toyota City, the company said Tuesday.www.asahitec.co.jpwww.metaldyne.com GOURMET INVESTS... ZURICH - Gate Gourmet, the world's largest independentairline caterer, hospitality and logistics provider, Tuesdayannounced a strategic investment in Performa, the Sydney- andBangkok-based world leader in helping service-orientedcompanies design and deliver unique experiences at everycustomer touch point.http://www.gategourmet.com QUINTILES APPOINTS... RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK - Quintiles Transnational Corp.Wednesday announced the appointment of John Goodacre asExecutive Vice President and General Counsel.http://www.qtrn.com PANACEA MANUFACTURES... GAITHERSBURG- Panacea Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has initiatedmanufacturing of PC Detect kits, the Company's diagnostic testfor prostate cancer, under GMP conditions.http://www.PanaceaPharma.com NOVARRA POWERS... CHICAG - Novarra, the leader in mobile web gateway platformsand services, Tuesday announced that its Vision platform ispowering Tata Indicom's market-leading full mobile internetservice.http://www.novarra.com PEABODY JOINS... BEIJING - Peabody Energy Tuesday became the only non-Chineseequity partner in "GreenGen," the first near-zero emissionscoal-fueled power plant with carbon capture and storage whichis under development in China.http://www.peabodyenergy.com QUALIFIERS ONLINE... GIBRALTAR - The famous PartyPoker.com Million is making avery welcome return and will be held in the Mediterranean fromMay 3rd - 10th 2008!! Qualifiers continue to take place onlineat PartyPoker.com, starting from as little as US$1!!http://www.PartyPoker.comhttp://www.partypoker.com/tournaments/party_poker_million EXPERTS ACHIEVES... MELBOURNE- GAPbuster Worldwide is the first major globalcustomer experience management and mystery shopping agency toachieve ISO 9001:2000 certification, (InternationalOrganization for Standardization) in Quality Management.www.gapbuster.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.