SYDNEY--27 Feb--AsiaNet/InfoQuest FLOW THRILLS... PERTH - Nido Petroleum Ltd (Nido) is pleased to announcethat the Galoc 3 horizontal production well flowed oil to thesurface unassisted at a maximum rate of 5,397 barrels per dayduring clean up flow testing on 20 and 21 February 2008.www.nido.com.au COMPANY APPOINTS... SYDNEY - Edgar, Dunn & Company, a leading independent globalfinancial services and payments consultancy, announced Tuesdaythat David Dee has been promoted to Director, where he willserve EDC's Asia Pacific clients from its Sydney office.http://www.edgardunn.com STARS PARTY... LOS ANGELES - Sunday night, after all the Oscars had beenawarded, four hundred of Hollywood's most recognizable namesreveled inside Prince's private Post-Oscar Event held at hisBeverly Hills estate, "The 77".http://www.citizensofhumanity.comhttp://www.wireimage.com MICREL PREVIEWS... CHENGDU - Micrel Inc., an industry leader in IC analog, highbandwidth and Ethernet solutions, Wednesday announced that itwould be previewing the industry's newest and most innovativepower analog IC solutions at the 13th Annual InternationalIC-China Conference & Exhibition.http://www.micrel.com UNIVERSITY CHOOSES... SYDNEY - The University of Western Sydney has chosen VerizonBusiness to help protect its network from internal and externalsecurity threats.http://www.verizon.comhttp://www.verizonbusiness.com INTEXYS POWERS... TOULOUSE - Intexys Photonics introduces its family ofOptical Engines for parallel optics applications and moreparticularly, for the Optical Active Cable emerging market.http://www.intexysphotonics.com CHAPTER FORMS... SYDNEY - The Association of Certified Anti-Money LaunderingSpecialists (ACAMS) recently announced the formation of theACAMS Australasian Chapter.www.acams.org CARBON CAPTURES... SYDNEY - The world's most advanced carbon capture system,the Purenergy CO2 Capture System, was showcased at the recentAustralian Canadian Premier's Conference held in Adelaide,Australia.www.eestechinc.com. ANADIGICS UNVEILS... WARREN - ANADIGICS, Inc., a leading provider ofsemiconductor solutions in the broadband wireless and wirelinecommunications markets, Tuesday announced its new ACA2604 RFamplifier for fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) applications.http://www.anadigics.com MICRO ANNOUNCES... AUSTIN - Luminary Micro, creators of the award-winningStellaris family of ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontrollers(MCUs), Tuesday announced rapid-time-to-market communicationsmodules and reference design kits for Ethernet-enabled displayapplications and serial-to-Ethernet communicationsapplications.http://www.LuminaryMicro.com NORDBANK FILES... HAMBURG - HSH Nordbank confirms that it has filed its claimagainst UBS in respect of significant losses incurred on aUS$500 million portfolio of CDOs linked to the US mortgagemarket which were structured and sold by UBS. FAIR SHOWCASES... BENTO GONCALVES - MOVELSUL BRASIL 2008, showcasing thequality of Brazilian furniture by more than 415 exhibitors andthe largest international furniture fair in Latin America, willbe held March 24-28 in the southern Brazilian city of BentoGoncalves.http://www.movelsul.com.br FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$245million on March 7, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.http://www.fanniemae.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTNR securities issues amounting to a total of US$25million on March 7, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.http://www.fanniemae.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of FINP securities issues amounting to a total ofUS$5.098 million on March 7, 2008 at a redemption price equalto 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest.http://www.fanniemae.com ATMEL REDEFINES... SAN JOSE - Atmel Corporation announced Tuesday the AVR XMEGAfamily, an important addition to their successful AVRmicrocontrollers.http://www.atmel.com ATMEL INTRODUCES... ROUSSET - Atmel Corporation announced Tuesday a new seriesof high-performance, ultra-low power ARM7TDMI-basedmicrocontrollers, the AT91SAM7L series, embedding powerswitches controlling multiple power islands and programmablevoltage regulators to reduce power consumption in active andstandby modes.http://www.atmel.com CANBET BLASTS... MELBOURNE - This March, UK bookmaker and leading gamingoperator, Canbet is giving one lucky punter the chance to win a20,000 pounds Betting Bank to bet with on Grand National Day,and pocket the day's profit, in its revolutionary Big Bet Blastpromotion.www.canbet.com BIONOMICS INITIATES... MELBOURNE - Bionomics Limited Tuesday announced theinitiation of treatment for the first patient in the Phase Itrial of its anti-cancer drug, BNC105.www.bionomics.com.au AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.