SYDNEY--9 May--AsiaNet/InfoQuest SOLES4SOULS MYANMAR... NASHVILLE, Tennessee - Soles4Souls, the internationalcharity dedicated to providing footwear for the needyworldwide, announced they have sent 25,000 pairs of shoes tothe victims of the recent cyclone in Myanmar, also known asBurma. www.giveshoes.org MEDICAL TEAMS... PORTLAND, Oregon - Nearly a week after Myanmar's horrificcyclone, Medical Teams International staff are on standby inJakarta today, ready to enter the country once visas areapproved. www.medicalteams.org FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON - Fannie Mae today priced US$2.25 billion, or 82million shares, of a new offering of its common stock atUS$27.50 per share. The company also announced it pricedUS$2.25 billion, or 45 million shares, of 8.75 per centNon-Cumulative Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock, Series2008-1. www.fanniemae.com LUTHERAN RELIEF... BALTIMORE - Lutheran World Relief is supplying desperatelyneeded emergency aid to Myanmar (Burma) in the wake of thedevastating cyclone that struck there over the weekend. www.lwr.org SILVERADO GOLD... VANCOUVER - Silverado Gold Mines Ltd. will be featuredTONIGHT on The History Channel, May 8, 2008, in their new TVseries 'Tougher in Alaska'. The episode is entitled 'GoldMining'. www.silverado.com SUPERMICRO REVENUE... SAN JOSE, California - Super Micro Computer, Inc., a leaderin application-optimized, high performance server solutions,today announced that the company has surpassed the US$2 billionmilestone in cumulative sales revenue since it was founded in1993. www.supermicro.com DAVID BECKHAM... LOS ANGELES - Soccer superstar David Beckham was on locationin Los Angeles recently, shooting print and TV ads for a newSharpie ad campaign that will have Beckham fans and TV insiderstaking notice. www.sharpie.com VOLCANO CORP... SAN DIEGO and BRUSSELS - Volcano Corporation, a leadingmanufacturer and developer of intravascular ultrasound,functional measurement and Optical Coherence Tomographyproducts designed to enhance the diagnosis and treatment ofcoronary and peripheral vascular disease, announced today thefirst human procedure using the Volcano OCT Imaging catheter. www.volcanocorp.com FXDD APPLICATION... NEW YORK - FXDD, a global leader in online foreign exchangetrading, today announced its applications for becoming aNational Futures Association member and for registration as aFutures Commission Merchant with the CFTC are pendingapproval. www.fxdd.com www.nfa.futures.org WORKFORCE MOTHERS... LOS ANGELES - Despite great strides made in the globalworkplace, more than three-quarters of executives indicate thatit is difficult for mothers re-entering the workforce today,according to the latest Executive Quiz from Korn/FerryInternational, a premier global provider of talent managementsolutions. www.kornferry.com NTT AWARD... TOKYO - NTT Communications today announced that its globaldata network services have won the Platinum Award for rankinghighest in terms of overall customer satisfaction in the latest"Voice of the Customer: Global Data VPN" report issued on April24, 2008 Telemark Services of the United Kingdom. www.ntt.com/index-e.html YAMAHA LAWSUIT... TOKYO - Yamaha Corporation has announced that the Companysecured a favorable ruling and settlement in its copyrightinfringement lawsuit in China. www.global.yamaha.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.