SYDNEY--15 Jan--AsiaNet/InfoQuest PHOTOVOLTAIC TECHNOLOGY... SHENZHEN: As the world's leading location for photovoltaicinvestments, Germany is essential to helping Asian companiesoptimize research and development, manufacturing, and marketaccess. This year's Asian Photovoltaic Technology Show willoffer information to Asian companies on how they can benefitfrom Germany's leading position in the world PV market. Thetrade fair runs from January 16 to 18 in the Chinese city ofShenzhen. www.invest-in-germany.com TAIYO FUND... TOKYO: The Taiyo Fund announces that it has accumulated aposition in excess of 5 per cent in Nabtesco Corp to become itsfourth largest shareholder. The Taiyo Fund is known for itscooperative investment style working with senior management toenhance shareholder value. INVESTMENT ANNOUNCED... SYDNEY: News Digital Media announces its first offshoreventure with the investment in Asia Pacific's leading travelsearch engine, Bezurk.com. www.bezurk.com ASOKA EXPANDS... TOKYO: Asoka USA, a leading HomePlug powerline networksolutions provider, announces the opening of its Asoka officein Yokohama, Japan. The office, to be managed by Yuichi Okubo,will be the central location for Japanese sales and productdevelopment. www.asokausa.com DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY... LONDON: In 1929 British Movietonews Limited was the firstcinema newsreel company to introduce sound newsreels; untilthat time newsreels like feature films were silent. Now onceagain British Movietonews leads the way introducing the mostmodern digital technology in the industry. www.movietone.com SOCIAL NETWORKING... NEW YORK: Social networking has been largely dominated bytwo players, Facebook and MySpace, but now FunkySexyCool, acompany established in Australia, is earning internationalmedia interest for its innovative approach to the socialnetworking phenomenon. www.fsccorporate.com PROGRESS REPORT... CALGARY: Resverlogix is pleased to announce preliminary datafrom the RVX-208 Phase 1 safety and pharmacokinetics study.Forty healthy volunteers have so far been treated of whichsixteen have received multiple doses. As anticipated from theextensive Investigational New Drug toxicology studies no safetyand tolerance problems have been encountered at any of thegiven doses. www.resverlogix.com MIYOWA APPOINTS... PARIS: Miyowa, a world leader in mobile instant messagingclient software, announces the appointment of Jos de Kruijf asChief Operating Officer and President. Jos will report toPascal Lorne, CEO and co-founder of Miyowa. Involved in thecompany as a board member since December 2006, Jos will nowlead Miyowa's product plan, customer operations, sales,strategic partnership and, design and development teams. www.miyowa.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of FINP, FINS, MTN and MTNR securities issues on January24, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of theprincipal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. Fannie Maewill also redeem MTN securities issues on January 27, 2008. www.fanniemae.com OLYMPIC TORCHBEARERS... BEIJING: Air China announces that in accordance with theprinciples of "Openness, Impartiality and Transparency," and inline with the Criteria for Selecting Olympic Torchbearers, alist of 20 Air China Olympic torchbearers has been finalizedupon the approval of the Beijing Organizing Committee for theGames of the XXIX Olympiad. The Company also announces that therelay route for the torchbearers has been confirmed. www.airchina.com.cn CEVA NAMES... HOOFDDORP: CEVA Logistics, the 4th largest global supplychain provider, announces the appointment of Bill Aldridge tothe position of Executive Vice President for its newly createdbusiness unit, International Logistics Solutions. ILS providesend-to-end supply chain solutions from purchase order to pointof sale. www.cevalogistics.com AVIATION TRAINING... KUALA LUMPUR: CAE announces that it has selected KualaLumpur as the location for its Southeast Asian training hub,and that it will leverage its existing partnership with AirAsiato develop an aviation centre of excellence and expand withinthe region. www.cae.com www.airasia.com MUSIC COMPETITION... WELLINGTON: www.voeveo.com and Aardvark Records are pleasedto announce London-based act Riveraire as the grand prizewinner in the audio category of the voeveo incubatorcompetition. voeveos incubator programme is all aboutsupporting and helping creative people learn skills to buildtheir mobile business. www.riveraire.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.