SYDNEY--14 May--AsiaNet/InfoQuest CHARLES DUMAS... HONG KONG - Two years ago Charles Dumas foretold an economic crisis. He wasright. Now, in the timely sequel to the prophetic Bill from the China Shop, heoutlines alternative reckonings: devastating economic consequences or anotherpath to greater global prosperity. MHAG APPOINTMENT HONG KONG - MHAG, a Brazilian iron ore mining company of which Noble Group(SGX: NOBL) owns 30%, has appointed Luis Carlos Nepomuceno to head theexecutive board as CEO effective immediately. MONIKER UNVEILING... POMPANO BEACH, Fla.- Moniker.com an Oversee.net company and provider ofDomain Asset Management(R) services, today announced the availability ofadditional premium domain names for purchase via a live and online domain nameauction at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East conference in Orlando. http://www.moniker.com http://www.moniker.com/liveauction http://www.oversee.net FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C - Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTNsecurities issues amounting to a total of US$150 million on May 23, 2008 at aredemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plusaccrued interest. www.fanniemae.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C - Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of FINPsecurities issues amounting to a total of US$2.387 million on May 23, 2008 at aredemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plusaccrued interest. www.fanniemae.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C - Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of FINSsecurities issues amounting to a total of US$18.980 million on May 23, 2008 ata redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plusaccrued interest. www.fanniemae.com CAMD DEVELOPMENT... MILPITAS, Calif. - California Micro Devices (Nasdaq: CAMD) announced thatthe Company has developed an innovative display controller architecture thatserves both the Mobile Display Digital Interface (MDDI) and Mobile IndustryProcessor Interface (MIPI) standards for high speed serial display interfacesfor use in today's most advanced mobile handsets. http://www.cmd.com VERIZON BUSINESS... BASKING RIDGE, N.J. - Fujitsu is rapidly expanding its North Americanpresence, and Verizon Business is providing a key building block. http://www.verizon.com http://www.fujitsu.com http://www.verizonbusiness.com http://www.verizon.com/news FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C - The following is being issued by Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM): 3-Year Pricing Date: May 15, 2008 Settlement Date: May 19, 2008 Maturity Date: May 19, 2011 Issue Size: $3 billion Coupon: TBD Payment Dates: Each May 19th and November 19th, beginning November 19, 2008 CUSIP: 31398ARH7 Listing Application will be made to list the securities on the EuroMTFmarket of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange www.fanniemae.com BLOOD SPOT... PORTLAND, Ore.- Dried blood spots are emerging as a breakthrough alternativeto expensive serum collection and transport for blood tests. http://www.zrtlab.com CARNEGIE SPEECH... PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Speech Company, the premier developer of spokenlanguage training software, today announced the availability of NativeAccent(R)for the web. http://www.carnegiespeech.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON D.C - Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) today priced $2 billion, or 80million shares, of non-cumulative, non-convertible, perpetual fixed-ratepreferred stock, designated as Series T. The Series T preferred stock (CUSIP313586737) has a stated value of $25 per share and a dividend rate of 8.25percent per annum. Fannie Mae will have the option to redeem all or part of thepreferred stock on or after May 20, 2013. It is expected to be issued on May19, 2008. www.fanniemae.com DIABETES GRANT... BRUSSELS and CLAYTON - The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) BRIDGEStranslational research grant program will fund STOP Diabetes, a project to beimplemented and studied in Australia. http://www.jeanhailes.org.au http://www.idfbridges.org . http://www.idf.org . SAFETY SAVES... MELBOURNE - The President of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, DrAndrew Sutherland, said in Hong Kong today that the most critical issue forsurgery worldwide was safety. WATER WORKS... MELBOURNE - The most effective first-aid treatment for burns injuriesremains the use of cold running water for 20 minutes, according to ProfessorRoy Kimble, Director of the Burns and Trauma Unit at the Royal ChildrensHospital in Brisbane. BREAST RESULTS... MELBOURNE - Younger women are more likely to undergo less radical surgicaltreatment for breast cancer in comparison with older women even though theirbreast cancers are more likely to exhibit features that place them at risk ofrecurrence, according to a new study. ATERAS PROJECT... DALLAS - ATERAS announced today that the Policy Number Expansion Project forClaims IT Systems at Progressive using DB-Shuttle(TM) Enterprise Changecapabilities has been a success! The purpose of the project was to use astandard automated method to identify and change the field definitionand length of 69 different DB2 columns (including policy number, street names,form numbers and status codes) across multiple databases in the ProgressiveEnterprise. http://www.ateras.com http://www.progressive.com SYNOPSYS INVESTMENT... MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and STOCKHOLM, - Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), aworld leader in software and IP for semiconductor design and manufacturing, andProver Technology AB today announced that Synopsys has invested in Prover,which supplies signaling design automation solutions for engineeringthe safety critical systems that control trains, switches and signals. http://www.synopsys.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.