SYDNEY--18 Feb--AsiaNet/InfoQuest DEEP-SEABED RESEARCH... KINGSTON - The International Seabed Authority today launcheda campaign to identify partners and participants in itsEndowment Fund to Support Collaborative Marine ScientificResearch on the International Seabed Area.www.isa.org.jm/en/efund PROPERTY EXHIBITION... BRISBANE - British investors eyeing off Australia's boomingcoastal property market will get an insight into one of itsstar performers at this months A Place in the Sun Live overseasproperty exhibition in Manchester.www.juniper.com.auwww.aplaceinthesunlive.comhttps://ssl3.secureserverau.com/~juniper/files/GraphicsSTPD_Images_140208.zip AVEVA REVIEWSHARE... CAMBRIDGE - AVEVA, the leading supplier of engineering ITsystems for the plant and marine industries, today released itsnew collaborative tool for 3D engineering model review, AVEVAReviewShare, to its customer base, following successful productpreviews in Europe, the US and Asia Pacificwww.aveva.com/reviewshare. U.S. DELEGATION... NEW DELHI - The U.S.-India Business Council today arrived atIndira Gandhi International Airport leading the largest-everU.S. Executive Defense Mission to India in the 33-year historyof this premier business advocacy organization whose mandate isto deepen U.S.-India commercial ties.www.usibc.com CVRD REPORT... RIO DE JANEIRO - Companhia Vale do Rio Doce maintained itsgrowth path, with another year of outstanding operationalperformance, with record production of iron ore, pellets,finished nickel, copper, bauxite, alumina, aluminum, kaolin,and cobalt.www.cvrd.com.brwww.vale.com GUINNESS RECORDS... LONDON - HIT Entertainment Limited and The Jim PattisonGroup today announced that Jim Pattison Entertainment Ltd., asubsidiary of the Group, has acquired Guinness World Recordsfrom HIT Entertainment. Details of the sale will not be madepublic.www.guinnessworldrecords.comwww.jimpattison.co US-AUSTRALIA AGREEMENT... BRISBANE - Virgin Blue Airlines today congratulated theAustralian and US Governments for introducing a new era ofcompetition for air services between the United States ofAmerica and Australia. BLOOD TEST... MELBOURNE - In a landmark study electronically publishedtoday in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical CareMedicine, a blood test for detecting TB infection,QuantiFERON-TB Gold, has been shown to be six times moreaccurate than the conventional tuberculin skin test atpredicting which tuberculosis-exposed individuals will go on todevelop TB disease.http://ajrccm.atsjournals.org/cgi/contentabstract200711-1613OCv1 DALTON SALE... TOKYO and LOS ANGELES - Dalton Investments LLC todayannounced that it has completed the sale of an 11% stake inFujitec Co., Ltd., an elevator manufacturer based in Osaka,Japan, to a wholly owned subsidiary of United Technologies. CITECT RELEASE... SYDNEY - Citect announces the release of version 3.2 of itsManufacturing Execution System, Ampla; a highly scalable MESsolution that drives the effective planning, operation andimprovement of production operations. Ampla V3.2 provides newfeatures to support Service Oriented Architectures andsignificantly reduce the time to develop operational reports.www.citect.comhttp://knowledgebase.citect.com/AmplaKB/ INVESTMENT CEO APPOINTED... SINGAPORE - Ian Frost has been appointed Chief ExecutiveOfficer of Professional Investment Advisory Services (PIAS),the Singapore subsidiary of Australian-headquarteredProfessional Investment Services (PIS), following the approvalof his appointment by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.www.profinvest.com.sg FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C. - Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN, MTNR, FINP securities on 25,26,27,28 February2008 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of theprincipal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.http://www.fanniemae.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.