SYDNEY--9 Apr--AsiaNet/InfoQuest GROUP REPORTS... KUALA LUMPUR - A Malaysian investor group claims that someunscrupulous businessmen in Papua New Guinea are thwartingtheir government's efforts to attract more foreign directinvestment to the country. TELENOR SELECTS... SINGAPORE - Acision, the messaging and charging company ofchoice for over 300 network operators and service providers,announced Wednesday that Telenor Pakistan has selected Acisionto provide its high performance Next Generation Short MessageService Centre (SMSC), Pre-delivery Service Agent (PSA), agateway for message charging, and Business Tools platform.www.acision.com ELCOTEQ PARTICIPATES... HONG KONG - Elcoteq SE, a leading integrated electronicsmanufacturing services company with original designmanufacturing capabilities in the communications technologyfield, will introduce its electronics manufacturing servicesand present as one of the keynote speakers at theNext-Generation Mobile Technologies Seminar, being held at theEmbassy of Canada in Tokyo, Japan on April 17 and 18, 2008.http://www.elcoteq.comhttp://iemf.jp/Event/index.html PROLOGIS JV... DENVER - ProLogis, the world's largest owner, manager anddeveloper of distribution facilities, announced Wednesday thatit has entered the market in India through a 50/50 developmentjoint venture agreement with K Raheja Corp, one of the largestreal estate developers in India.http://www.krahejacorp.comhttp://www.krahejacorp.com BANCO INFORMS... SAO PAULO - To strengthen accountability and transparency,Banco Itau Holding Financeira S.A. is making additionalinformation available on the Investor Relations website tosupplement the Convening Notice to an Ordinary andExtraordinary General Meeting this coming April 23.http://www.itauir.com ADDINTOOLS EASES... HAIKOU - Addintools announced Wednesday the release ofClassic Menu for Office 2007 v3.91, a new update for thepopular suite of tools that enables users to introduce theinterface of MS Office 2003 into MS Office 2007.http://www.addintools.comhttp://www.addintools.com/english/menuoffice MOMAGRI INTRODUCES... BRUSSELS - Pierre Pagesse, Chairman of momagri, aParis-based think tank, Wednesday announced the initial resultsof momagri's economic model to the European Parliament.http://www.momagri.org RTS ENTERS... CHICAGO - RTS Realtime Systems Group and SYSTEX Corporation(SYSTEX) Wednesday announced that they have entered into adistribution agreement to sell and support the entire portfolioof RTS' professional trading solutions to the Taiwanesemarket.http://www.rtsgroup.nethttp://www.SYSTEX.com.tw NOVAGALI ANNOUNCES... EVRY, Novagali Pharma, an ophthalmic specialtypharmaceutical company announces the commercial launch inFrance of its first product Cationorm.http://www.novagali.com FRANKLIN LAUNCHES... COLUMBUS- Franklin International, a global leader in themanufacture of glues, adhesives and sealants, is launching anew operation in China -- Franklin (Guangzhou) AdhesivesCompany, Ltd. -- to be in closer proximity to the increasingnumber of customers in the wood assembly and constructionmarkets in China and the Pacific Rim.http://franklininternational.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$700million on April 18 & 22, 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 MTNR securities issues amounting to a total of US$25million on April 18, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest.http://www.fanniemae.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of FINP securities issues amounting to a total ofUS$10.66 million on April 18, 2008 at a redemption price equalto 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest.http://www.fanniemae.com TEST STARTS... HONG KONG - One of the leading game developers and operatorsin the PRC, NetDragon Websoft Inc. has announced that on 30March 2008, it officially started its black dragon testingclient of the game "Heroes of Might and Magic Online", which isto be launched in 2008. GENTA DONATES... GENEVA - As a partner of the Theodora Foundation for thepast two years, Gerald Genta will be contributing to thecharity auction organised by Christie's on April the 16th bydonating a one-of-a-kind watch. SWAGMEN CRAWL... PERTH - Australian-based touring company, Thirsty Swagman,is initiating Europe's longest pub crawl during Oktoberfest,bringing a limited number of travellers on an 11-nightpub-crawling party across several European countries.www.WorldsBiggestPubCrawl.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.