SYDNEY--20 May--AsiaNet/InfoQuest PRIME MINISTER SCORES... KUALA LUMPUR - Prime Minister of Malaysia, Datuk SeriAbdullah Badawi, scored a high 80 per cent on his Chinesespoken language test at the Taiwan booth after the officialopening of WCIT 2008 this morning. http://www.galileo-masters.com http://www.itri.org.tw FT/STARMINE RECOGNISES... NEW YORK - Pali Capital, Inc., the US broker-dealersubsidiary of Pali Holdings, Inc., Tuesday announced thatRichard Greenfield, Managing Director of Pali Research, rankedsecond in the 2008 FT/StarMine Equity Analyst Awards for USMedia Stock Picking. http://www.palicapital.com ZIGBEE CERTIFIES... SAN RAMON - The ZigBee Alliance, a global ecosystem ofcompanies creating wireless solutions for use in energymanagement, commercial and consumer applications, Mondayannounced the official certification of 19 products using theZigBee Smart Energy public application profile. http://www.ZigBee.org EPA PROCESS... WASHINGTON - The head of the US Environmental ProtectionAgency (EPA) on Monday said he may not decide on greenhouse gasemissions regulations under the Clean Air Act before PresidentBush leaves office in January. http://www.platts.com http://www.mcgraw-hill.com AICPA PUBLISHES... AMELIA ISLAND - The American Institute of Certified PublicAccountants announced the introduction of IFRS.com, a new Website developed in partnership with its marketing and technologysubsidiary CPA2Biz to help members and financial professionalslearn about and stay informed on International FinancialReporting Standards (IFRS). http://www.aicpa.org http://www.cpa2biz.com http://www.ifrs.com http://www.aicpa.org/mediacenter NORKOM DEPLOYS... SYDNEY - St.George Bank, the fifth largest retail bank andone of the top 20 publicly listed companies in Australia, haschosen Norkom Technologies to help it comply with the recentlyenacted Anti-Money Laundering/Counter-Terrorism Financing Act(AML/CTF Act 2006), becoming the first Australian bank todeploy a software solution to meet these compliancestandards. www.norkom.com MARVELL PLEDGES... SANTA CLARA - Marvell today announced it will match employeedonations with a company contribution of up to US$1 million forvictims of the disastrous Sichuan earthquake and the cyclone inBurma, also known as Myanmar. http://www.marvell.com ALTAIR RELEASES... TROY - Altair Engineering, a global provider of technologyand services empowering client innovation and decision making,Tuesday announced the release of Altair HyperWorks 9.0, thenext generation of its popular integrated suite ofcomputer-aided engineering (CAE) software applications. http://www.altair.com http://www.altairhyperworks.com/hw9 http://www.altairhyperworks.com NETDRAGON DONATES... HONG KONG - One of the leading game developers and operatorsin the PRC, NetDragon Websoft Inc. has donated an additionalRMB1.5 million in cash to support recovery work in Sichuan withthe increasing need of aid following the recent earthquake,reaching a monetary donation of RMB3 million in total. http://www.nd.com.cn GEOEXCHANGE FINANCES... BELLINGHAM - Essential Innovations Technology Corp. is trulypleased to announce that it has successfully closed and fundeda financing in the form of a convertible secured note in theamount of US$1,750,000. http://www.eitechcorp.com ATMAIL LAUNCHES... BRISBANE - AtMail, a leading provider of easy-to-use,Linux-based email management appliances and software, todayannounced the immediate availability of AtMail Open, a newwebmail offering based on the company's highly successfulmessaging platform that is used by more than 15 million usersworldwide. http://www.atmail.org . FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$650million on May 29, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com ATMEL DELIVERS... SHANGHAI - Atmel Corporation announced Monday theavailability of the new high-temperature hex half-bridge driverICs ATA6837 and ATA6839, manufactured using Atmel'shigh-voltage 0.8 um BCD-on-SOI technology, which enables theuse of much smaller lower-cost QFN packages. http://www.atmel.com XML RELEASES... TOKYO - From Monday, the XML Technology CertificationCommittee will release the results of an online surveyadministered to individuals who obtained the "XML MasterProfessional" certification, a higher-level certification inthe XML Master program. http://www.xmlmaster.org/en/ BIRKART BECOMES... HONG KONG and SINGAPORE - Birkart Globistics, a leadingprovider of global transportation and freight forwardingservices, Monday announced a major re-branding which will seethe company renamed as Logwin effective July 1, 2008. http://www.logwin-logistics.com http://www.birkart.com http://www.thiel-logistik.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.