SYDNEY--16 May--AsiaNet/InfoQuest THOMSON REUTERS EXPANSION... PHILADELPHIA, PA. - Thomson Reuters, the world's leadingsource of intelligent information for businesses andprofessionals, has further increased coverage of the growingpatent activity in the Asia Pacific region with the addition ofregistered Japanese Utility Models in Derwent World PatentsIndex(R) (DWPI(SM)). This is the latest addition to the DWPIdatabase, with Chinese Utility Model Registrations added inOctober 2007. The inclusion of the Japanese Utility Modelsprovides the best access to Asian patents in English, andfurther enhances the value of DWPI for prior art andpatentability searches.http://www.thomsonreuters.com AIR CHINA ALLOCATION... BEIJING - Air China adjusted capacity timely according tothe relief situation and allocated wide-body aircrafts as itsbest to evacuate stranded passengers in Sichuan province. OnMay 15, 28 flights departed from Chengdu and other 9 otherflights were especially arranged for disaster relief. ROCHE DATA... BASEL - Patients with breast or colorectal cancer, two ofthe world's most common cancers, can expect further treatmentadvances with Avastin(R) (bevacizumab) and Herceptin(R)(trastuzumab) following new data that is being presented at the44th American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annualmeeting in Chicago at the end of May. Around 30,000 medicalexperts will attend the meeting which is the premier event forcancer therapy worldwide.http://www.asco.org/ASCO/Meetingshttp://www.asco.orghttp://www.who.int/mediacentre/releases/2003/pr27/en CANCER STUDY... INDIANAPOLIS, IN. - Lung cancer patients whose histology isfactored into treatment decisions may fare better as a result,according to data from a pivotal non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC) clinical trial. Data from the trial, which involved EliLilly and Company's ALIMTA(R) (pemetrexed for injection), willbe presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the American Societyof Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago, Ill., May 30 -- June 3,2008.www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/non-small-cell-lungHealthProfessional/page2 CHILDREN'S OPERATIONS... MELBOURNE - For the first time a new three dimensionalcamera can be used to prove whether minimal surgery is just aseffective as traditional surgery, allowing it to be much lesstraumatic for children who need operations to correct facialdeformities. TYRANNY OF DISTANCE... MELBOURNE - Of all the health issues in Alice Springs traumaand violence are the most preventable, said Dr Ollapalli Jacobtoday at the co-joint Annual Scientific Congress of the Collegeof Surgeons of Australasia and Hong Kong. COORSTEK OPENING... GUMI CITY - CoorsTek held a grand opening ceremony at theirnewest technical ceramics manufacturing facility in SouthKorea. Significant increases in demand for high-purity andother specialty ceramics, primarily for the semiconductormanufacturing and flat-panel display industries, fueled theadditional facility.www.coorstek.com FRONTIERS NORTH ADVENTURES... WINNIPEG - Frontiers North Adventures, the premiere providerof Authentic Arctic Experiences in Canada's north, is on recordpace for another successful year in the tourism industry.http://www.frontiersnorth.com/news THE NATURAL WORLD MUSEUM... SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. and WELLINGTON - The Natural WorldMuseum (NWM), in partnership with the United NationsEnvironment Programme (UNEP), revealed today plans for a2008-2009 traveling exhibit entitled Moving Towards a BalancedEarth: Kick the Carbon Habit. The exhibit will debut at the TePapa Tongarewa Museum in Wellington to commemorate thecelebration of UN World Environment Day (WED) on 5 June 2008.As the host of WED 2008, on the theme of "Kick the CarbonHabit," New Zealand is one of the first countries to pledge acarbon-neutral future.http://www.naturalworldmuseum.orghttp://www.naturalworldmuseum.org/press/co2 PLATTS STEEL... LONDON - Platts, one of the world's foremost providers ofenergy and metals information, today announced it is expandingits suite of spot price assessments in global metals to includesteel exported from China, specifically hot-rolled coil (HRC)and concrete reinforcing bar (rebar). http://www.platts.comhttp://www.mcgraw-hill.com TITAN AQUISITION... CHARLOTTE, N.C. - TITAN Technology Partners, a globalprovider of hosted and managed industry solutions, todayannounced it has acquired Sinmax Global, a businessintelligence (BI) and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)consulting firm with operations in Singapore and Chennai,India. Sinmax Global will be rebranded as TITAN Sinmax andbrings competencies in all of the major platforms includingHyperion(R), Cognos(R), Business Objects(R), IBM(R)WebSphere(R) DataStage(R) and OutlookSoft(R).http://www.s2v.com CHINA BUSINESS CONFERENCE... COLUMBIA, Md. - Over 300 consumer electronics industryexecutives attended iBiquity Digital Corporation's HD RadioBusiness Conference and Technology Training session inShenzhen, China, Friday, April 11, 2008, two days prior to theHong Kong Electronics Fair.http://www.ibiquity.comhttp://www.hdradio.com ANADIGICS' AMPLIFIERS... WARREN, N.J. - ANADIGICS, Inc. (Nasdaq: ANAD), today announcedthe launch of its ABA3101 and ABA3115 balanced low noise linearpower amplifiers (PAs) designed to generate exceptional signalintegrity in CATV set-top box, distribution and dropapplications.www.anadigics.com FLIGHTS SLOWDOWN... LONDON -:- Volume of airline schedules climbs just 2% for May- Number of flights increases by 40,000; just half of lastmonth's year on year rise- US domestic flight volumes down by 23,000 with more than 1.5 millionfewer seats- India and China lead global growth- Continued growth in low cost sector boosts global figures- Aircraft orders up by 35%http://www.oagcorporate.comhttp://www.cbizmedia.comhttp://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C- The following is being issued by Fannie Mae(NYSE: FNM):3-YearPricing Date: May 15, 2008Settlement Date: May 19, 2008Maturity Date: May 19, 2011Issue Size: $4 billionCoupon: 3.375 %Price: 99.966Yield: 3.387 %Spread:P +87.5 basis points / 2.125% 4/30/2010 U.S.TreasuryPayment Dates: Each May 19th and November 19th,beginning November 19, 2008CUSIP: 31398ARH7Listing Application will be made to list the securities onthe EuroMTF market of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.http://www.fanniemae.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.