SYDNEY--17 Apr--AsiaNet/InfoQuest "MELMAN REPORT"... VANCOUVER - Silverado Gold Mines Ltd., and its wholly owned subsidiary,Silverado Green Fuel Inc., (Trading Symbols OTC BB : SLGLF, Frankfurt : SLGL)are most pleased to present the highlights of "The Melman Report", anindependent, objective and expert, third party review of the company.A full version of this article can be viewed athttp://www.silverado.com/pressroom/articles/16042008.htm .This preliminary article will be followed up with a more in-depth review byThe Melman Report, in the near future.http://www.silverado.com/investors/request/ SHANDA PARTNERSHIP... SHANGHAI - Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited (Nasdaq: SNDA), orShanda, a leading interactive entertainment media company in China, announcedtoday that it has granted an exclusive right to Zapak Digital EntertainmentLtd, or Zapak, for operation of Shanda's in-house developed online racing gameCrazy Kart in India. Zapak is India's leading full-service gaming company underReliance Entertainment, which is a subsidiary of Reliance ADA Group, one ofIndia's three largest privately held companies. Crazy Kart is currently underclosed-beta testing in India and is expected to enter commercial operation inthe second quarter of 2008.http://www.snda.com GLOBAL HEALTH... WASHINGTON - Industry supports hundreds of programs helping millions in thedeveloping world and is looking for new partners The worldwide pharmaceutical industry today launched Global Health Progress,an initiative to bring research-based biopharmaceutical companies, globalhealth leaders and policymakers together to build on current partnerships toimprove health in the developing world. Serving as a convening point for the industry and its partners, GlobalHealth Progress will facilitate interaction between the private sector, NGOsand governments to share research and best practices; raise awareness of globalhealth challenges; and build partnerships to improve global health. "Research-based biopharmaceutical companies contribute hugely to healthpartnerships for the developing world, through their unique expertise in R&D,regulatory affairs, manufacturing, logistics and many other fields, but we cantwork alone," said Dr. Harvey Bale, Director General of IFPMA. "The GlobalHealth Progress initiative should help to expand the range and scope of globalhealth partnerships supported by our industry."http://www.efpia.eu,http://www.ifpma.org,http://www.phrma.org,http://www.nuestraphrma.org,http://www.globalhealthprogress.org / WALLENIUS WILHELMSEN... 'S-HERTOGENBOSCH, April 17 - Quintiq, a leading provider of AdvancedPlanning and Scheduling (APS) solutions, today announced that WalleniusWilhelmsen Logistics (WWL), one of the world's largest independent providers offactory to dealer logistics services for automakers and high & heavy rollingequipment manufacturers, has selected Quintiq to provide a planning solution tocover its global planning activities. The Quintiq solution will bring moretransparency to WWL's supply chain, enable WWL to optimize vessel spaceaccording to available and forecasted cargo, cargo priority and revenueprojections, and improve performance against contract commitments.http://www.quintiq.comhttp://www.2wglobal.com TOMMYTV MUSIC... AMSTERDAM - Tommy Hilfiger continues to bring music and fashion togetherwith the global launch of TommyTV (www.tommytv.com), an online evolution of theHilfiger Sessions music series, staged in creative collaboration with Sony BMGEurope, that brings the excitement of live music to audiences around the globe.http://www.tommytv.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTNRsecurities issues amounting to a total of US$25 million on April 26, 2008 at aredemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plusaccrued interest.http://www.fanniemae.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTNRsecurities issues amounting to a total of US$50 million on April 28, 2008 at aredemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plusaccrued interest.http://www.fanniemae.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTNsecurities issues amounting to a total of US$20 million on April 26, 2008 at aredemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plusaccrued interest.http://www.fanniemae.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTNsecurities issues amounting to a total of US$50 million on April 30, 2008 at aredemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plusaccrued interest.http://www.fanniemae.com ACONEX COLLABORATION... LAS VEGAS, Nevada - Aconex has been selected to provide its onlineinformation management service to the Marina Bay Sands integrated casino resortdevelopment in Singapore. Aconex will provide a central, web-based platform forstoring and sharing project documents and correspondence. By using the system,project team members will be able to view, track and distribute their filesonline in real-time, from any location and at any time.www.aconex.com TEJARI ADVANCEMENT... DUBAI -Tejari, the leading online B2B marketplace for emerging markets, todaysigned a strategic agreement with the government of Qingdao, China, to deliveran e-procurement portal that will boost commerce along the 'e-Silk Road'between China and the Middle East.http://www.tejari.com HUMANITARIANDREAM.COM PROPOSAL... NEW YORK - The website HumanitarianDream.com has launched anonline call to action encouraging key decision makers to invite the Dalai Lamato carry the torch as a symbol of peace and unity during the Olympic truce.Steve Varon, in service of HumanitarianDream.com, envisioned the Dalai Lamacarrying the torch in 2005. Soon after, he met with the Dalai Lama and sharedthis vision. The Dalai Lama greeted the concept positively and Varon has beenworking since that day to make this dream a reality.http://www.HumanitarianDream.com DARA ANNOUNCEMENT... RALEIGH, N.C. - DARA BioSciences(TM) (Nasdaq: DARA) announced today thatSurgi-Vision, Inc., a privately held company of which DARA Biosciences ownsapproximately 9.8% of the outstanding shares, has entered into a licensing anddevelopment agreement with Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) formagnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-safe technology.http://www.darabio.comhttp://www.bostonscientific.com GRAMERCY MANAGER... GREENWICH, Connecticut - Gilberto Chavez-Velazquez has joined GramercyAdvisors LLC as a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager in their Greenwich,CT offices. Mr. Chavez-Velazquez will focus on hedging strategies and tradingof emerging market distressed sovereign and corporate securities. His tradingactivities will add value to Gramercy's $1.7 billion Gramercy Emerging MarketFund, as well as the $160 million Gramercy Argentina Opportunity Fund and the$390 million specialty finance company, Arco Capital Corporation.http://www.gramercy.com USIBC'S BOLLYWOOD-HOLLYWOOD... LAS VEGAS - The recently-released U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC)study, The Effects of Counterfeiting and Piracy on Indias EntertainmentIndustry, served as a "call to arms" during the India super-sessionat the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. The study, prepared for USIBC by Ernst & Young India, demonstrates thatIndias burgeoning entertainment industry loses as much as 4 billion U.S.dollars and 800,000 direct jobs each year due to counterfeiting and piracy. The study was commissioned as part of the USIBC-FICCI Bollywood-HollywoodInitiative, which promotes the sustainable growth and convergence underwaybetween the entertainment industries of the U.S. and India.http://www.usibc.com HARRY POTTER CASE... NEW YORK - The following is a statement by J.K. Rowling:"The book at the heart of this case has overstepped a boundary sounreasonably that I have been forced, regretfully, to take legal action.Authors have a right to protect their works from misuse. Do I have fewerrights because many people read my books? If this book is published, it willopen the floodgates for anyone to lift an author's work and present it as theirown. But if it is not published, that will be a boon not only to all whocreate original works, but to all who enjoy those works." DEXTON'S AGILE SYSTEM... CAPELLE AAN DEN IJSSEL - Dexton, a Dutch software company with more than 20years of experience in complex integration processes, today announces thattheir Agile System Environment (ASE) is available on Websphere, Apache andTomCat. By using Java (EE) and J2EE (JES) technology, next to the .Net Frameworktechnology that was already used, ASE has become a truly platform independentsolution. ASE has always been cross browser compatible and all separate partsof the application are available for Unix, IBM iSeries, Microsoft Server andLinux.http://www.dexton.nl HAIR SURGERY... GENEVA, Illinois - According to statistics released from a member surveyconducted last year by the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery(ISHRS), approximately 225,800 hair restoration procedures were performedworldwide in 2006, up 34 percent from 2004. While nearly every region of theworld experienced a boost, Asia experienced one of the largest increases in thenumber of hair restoration procedures performedwith 57,542 procedures in 2006 vs. 20,673 procedures in 2004.http://www.ishrs.org DIGI RELEASE... MINNETONKA, Minnisotta - Digi International (Nasdaq: DGII) today announcedthe release of the low power XBee ZB and extended range XBee-PRO(R) ZB ZigBeemodules based upon the ZigBee PRO feature set. The ZigBee PRO feature setenables deployment of larger, more stable and interoperable ZigBee networkswith advanced features.http://www.zigbee.org AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.