SYDNEY--24 Mar--AsiaNet/InfoQuest COTECNA CONTESTS... GENEVA - On March 19th, 2008, the National Board of Revenueof Bangladesh issued a termination of contract letter againstCotecna Inspection SA pertaining to the present PSI scheme andwith immediate effect; Cotecna strongly contests allegeddiscrepancies, none of which have completed due process.http://www.cotecna.com PRINCE OPENS... LISSE - Dutch Crown Prince Willem Alexander has officiallyopened the 59th edition of the world famous internationalflower exhibition of Keukenhof in Lisse, The Netherlands. AERCAP ANNOUNCES... AMSTERDAM - AerCap Holdings N.V. Friday announced it hasfiled its annual report on Form 20-F, including its auditedfinancial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31,2007, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission inaccordance with United States requirements.http://www.aercap.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of FINP securities issues amounting to a total of US$4.5million on April 1, 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 FINS securities issues amounting to a total ofUS$26.7 million on April 1, 2008 at a redemption price equal to100 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 ofUS$2.165 billion on April 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 2008 at a redemptionprice equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemedplus 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$50million on April 1, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.http://www.fanniemae.com PERFECT TESTS... BEIJING - Beijing Perfect World Network Technology Co.,Ltd., a leading online game developer and operator in China,Friday announced that it will officially launch open betatesting for "Hot Dance Party," the company's first 3D casualgame, on March 31, 2008. KHATTAR RECEIVES... MUMBAI - Jagdish Khattar, former managing director of MarutiSuzuki India, Ltd., has received the prestigious J.D. Power andAssociates Founder's Award for his distinguished service toautomotive consumers in India.http://www.jdpower.comhttp://www.mcgraw-hill.com WD STREAMLINES... PENANG - Western Digital announced Thursday that themajority of its media and substrate supply obligations toexternal customers related to its acquisition of Komag in 2007will be fulfilled by May 2008, as planned, and thatconsequently WD will streamline its media and substrateoperations to serve only its own hard drive business.http://www.westerndigital.com ALLIANCE ACCELERATES... BEIJING - Cold Storage Software Pte Ltd. and Data FaultTolerance System Co., Ltd., one of the leading storage solutionproviders in China, Friday announced a strategic alliance basedon a share vision of for promoting adoption of NAS technologyin digital video and healthcare service provisioning.http://www.coldstoragesoftware.com COURSE TEACHES... BOSTON - The nonprofit American Success Institute, atwww.BillFitzpatrick.com, announces newly-updated free business,real estate and personal development courses, e-books, blogsand YouTube video.www.BillFitzpatrick.comhttp://www.success.org SUZUKI DEBUTS... NEW YORK - Performing onstage at this year's New YorkInternational Auto Show in front of a packed house, AmericanSuzuki Motor Corp. hosts the world debut of its sleek andathletic Concept Kizashi 3, which completes the company'sstar-studded cast of media-acclaimed Kizashi concepts.http://www.suzuki.com KBO WEARS... BUFFALO - New Era Cap Co., Inc., the leading headweardesigner and manufacturer, announced Thursday a three-yearlicensing agreement with the Korean Baseball Organization withthe Lotte Giants and Samsung Lions, the first KBO teams to donNew Era on-field fitted caps for the 2008 season.http://neweracap.com VISA ANNOUNCES... SAN FRANCISCO - Visa Inc. announced Thursday that theunderwriters of its initial public offering exercised theirover-allotment option to purchase an additional 40,600,000shares of its Class A common stock at $44.00 per share. SUPERMICRO LAUNCHES... SAN JOSE - Super Micro Computer, Inc., a leader inapplication-optimized, high performance server solutions,Thursday announced the availability of high-bandwidth,low-latency InfiniBand connectivity solutions for itsSuperBlade and high-performance computing product lines.http://www.Supermicro.com COMPETITION DISCOVERS... WASHINGTON - Global Water Challenge and Ashoka'sChangemakers invite everyone to join "Tapping Local Innovation:Unclogging the Water and Sanitation Crisis," an onlinecompetition to discover and support entrepreneurs withgroundbreaking approaches to the world's water and sanitationchallenges.http://www.ashoka.orghttp://www.globalwaterchallenge.org AUCTION ATTRACTS... BRISBANE - Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers=, the world's largestauctioneer of industrial equipment, attracted an internationalaudience of bidders and sellers to its first Australian auctionof 2008.www.rbauction.com VIDEONLINE WINS... BEIJING - ViDeOnline Communications, Ltd., a videonetworking company, Wednesday announced that CCTV.com hasawarded them the exclusive rights to package and create videoadvertisement partnerships for online video streamingbroadcasts of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games via Live and VOD(Video On Demand) channels on http://www.cctv.com.http://www.cctv.comhttp://www.cctv.com BOSE PURCHASES... PHILADELPHIA - Thomson Scientific, part of The ThomsonCorporation and leading provider of information solutions tothe worldwide research and business communities, Wednesdayannounced that Century of Science has been purchased by BoseInstitute.http://scientific.thomson.comhttp://www.isiwebofknowledge.comhttp://www.thomson.com PARAGON RELOCATES... SHANGHAI - Paragon Relocation announced Thursday GlobalRelocation Solutions, a leading relocation and destinationservice provider based in Seoul, South Korea, will be ParagonRelocation's first franchisee in Asia.http://www.paragonrelocation.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.