SYDNEY--12 Mar--AsiaNet/InfoQuest THOMSON SCIENTIFIC... PHILADELPHIA and LONDON: Thomson Scientific today announcedthe release of Newport Horizon Premium and Newport VisionPremium, designed specifically for professionals working inproduct selection, business development, competitiveintelligence and API sourcing. www.scientific.thomson.com www.thomson.com CORPORATE PHILANTHROPY... BOSTON: One of China's foremost entrepreneurs spoke atHarvard Business School, and gave a bold new direction toChina's culture of corporate philanthropy SCREEN PRINTING... HAMBURG: Fast printing and the use of a screen printcylinder on offset printing presses are amongst the advantagesof the newly developed SBR-technology* presented by IPBewertungs AG and the inventor Heinz-Jurgen Elbers at thisyear's drupa. www.IPB-AG.com OIL SPILL... SINGAPORE: Lamor Group Ltd and Swire Pacific OffshoreLimited have established a 50:50 Joint Venture to provideemergency oil spill response solutions for the Oil and Gassector. www.swire.com.sg www.lamor.com BNY MELLON... SINGAPORE: BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, the global leader insecurities servicing, has been awarded the title of 'Best FundAdministrator' in Asia in The Asset magazine's Triple ATransaction Banking Awards 2008. www.bnymellon.com OTIS AWARD... FARMINGTON, Connecticut: Otis Elevator Company, a unit ofUnited Technologies Corp., won a contract valued at US$74million with ECE Europa Bau- & Projektmanagement GmbH to supplyand install elevators, escalators and moving walkways for 19shopping centers planned throughout Europe. www.otis.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN, MTNR, FINP securities issues on March 21, 2008at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principalamount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com DUPONT TITANIUM ... SINGAPORE and WILMINGTON, Delaware: DuPont TitaniumTechnologies today announced a price increase for all DuPontTi-Pure titanium dioxide grades sold in the Asia Pacificregion. www.titanium.dupont.com COGNIZANT ARGENTINA... TEANECK, N.J. and BUENOS AIRES: Cognizant, a leadingprovider of global consulting, software, IT infrastructure andbusiness process services, announced today the officialinauguration of its 35th global delivery center in BuenosAires, Argentina. www.cognizant.com COMPONENTONE MICROSOFT... PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania: ComponentOne demonstrated itssupport for Microsoft's Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint byshowcasing the ComponentOne Stock Portfolio Silverlightapplication. www.componentone.com http://labs.componentone.com HEALTHCARE WORKERS... LOS ANGELES: A number of community organizations and keyAsian Pacific Islander leaders in California have unanimouslythrown their unequivocal support for SEIU United HealthcareWorkers -West and its Platform for Change. www.seiu-uhw.org CLIMATE LEGISLATION... WASHINGTON: The chairman of the US House Energy and AirQuality Subcommittee told a Platts Energy Podium event inWashington on Tuesday that he supports a greenhouse gasescap-and-trade system that would provide nearly all emissioncredits for free to electric utilities, oil refineries andother industrial operations. www.platts.com www.energypodium.platts.com www.mcgraw-hill.com AUSTRALIAN SOFTWARE... SYDNEY: Australian firm QSR Internationals NVivo softwarehas changed the face of qualitative research in the past twoyears and now NVivo 8 launched today - will shake up theinternational field again with unrivalled audio and visualcapabilities. www.qsrinternational.com PCUBED APPOINTMENT... ANN ARBOR, Michigan: Pcubed - the global leader in helpingorganizations deliver their most critical and complexportfolios, programs and projects - announces the appointmentof a new Vice President Financial Services, North America -Steve Barnes. www.pcubed.com ALTAIR SEMICONDUCTOR... HOD HASHARON: Altair Semiconductor, a fabless chip companydeveloping the world's most advanced mobile WiMAXsemiconductors for handheld devices, today announced therelease of the ALT2150 mobile WiMAX baseband processor toleading handheld device and module manufacturers. www.altair-semi.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.