SYDNEY--11 Jun--AsiaNet/InfoQuest SPEAKERS PROVIDE... SYDNEY - A highly impressive group of leading internationalspeakers will provide valuable insight into the latesteconomic, technological, human resource and sustainabilitytrends impacting the corporate real estate industry at theannual CoreNet Global Summit, to be held June 29 - July 1, 2008at the Sheraton on the Park in Sydney.http://www.corenetglobalausnz.com NYSE/EURONEXT TEAMS... SINGAPORE - Progress Software Corporation and NYSE EuronextAdvanced Trading Solutions, a unit of NYSE Euronext Wednesdayannounced a partnership that enables NYSE Euronext AdvancedTrading Solutions to offer its customers new complex eventprocessing capabilities for algorithmic trading, real-time riskmanagement, and smart order routing, which will be provided bythe Progress Apama CEP platform.http://www.nyse.com/tradingsolutionshttp://www.progress.com/asia NEWSLETTER PUBLISHES... SALEM - Top United States investment advisory Cabot China &Emerging Markets Report Wednesday published a Special Issuededicated entirely to Indian stocks traded on the Bombay orNational Stock Exchange of India.http://www.cabot.net BOARD RECOMMENDS... NEW YORK - The Disclosure Advisory Board -- a 15-personcouncil of leaders in the corporate, regulatory, investor,reporting and academic communities that was organized by PRNewswire -- announced Wednesday its recommendations forincorporating non-tangible, "hidden assets" into investorcommunications to improve corporate disclosure and help enhancestock valuation.http://www.prnewswire.comhttp://www.thedisclosureadvisoryboard.com QUALITY WINS... SYDNEY - The Quality Hotel Cambridge of Sydney, Australiahas been named the International Hotel of the Year by worldwidelodging franchisor Choice Hotels International, Inc.,franchisor of the Quality brand.http://www.choicehotels.com.auhttp://www.choicehotels.com DELEGATES ATTEND... LONDON - 50 Chinese delegates, lead by the China Departmentof Audio & Video and Internet Publication, attend the 4thLondon Calling, June 19-20, 2008.http://labels.a-peer.com/ssceg INDUSTRY DESCENDS... LONDON - LONDON CALLING 2008 (19-20 June, Earls Court,London) is the UK's largest music industry trade exhibition andconference, in association with AIM, WIN and Impala.www.londoncalling2008.com VALE APPROVES... RIO DE JANEIRO - Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (Vale) herebydiscloses that its senior management approved on May 26, 2008and will submit to the Board of Directors a proposal of apublic offering of common shares and preferred class A shares,with a maximum value of US$15 billion, including the offeringand any exercise of the underwriters' over-allotment option.http://www.cvrd.com.brhttp://www.vale.com PEPSICO CONFIDENT... PURCHASE - In comments during meetings next week withinvestors in London and at The Deutsche Bank Global Consumerand Food Retail Conference in Paris, PepsiCo's CFO RichardGoodman will express confidence in the Company's businessoutlook and confirm its full-year 2008 guidance.http://www.pepsico.com/ SPBBACKUP SAVES... ST. PETERSBURG - Spb Software House, the leading WindowsMobile applications vendor, releases Spb Backup 2.0 - a toolfor making reserve copies of personal data and system settingsfor Windows Mobile phones.www.spbsoftwarehouse.com ENDEAVORS ANNOUNCES... IRVINE - Endeavors Technologies, the pioneer in applicationstreaming and virtualization technology, and its parentcompany, Tadpole Technology plc, Tuesday announced adistribution agreement with TCB Technologies.http://www.endeavors.comhttp://www.tadpoletechnology.comhttp://www.tcbtech.co.jp/english FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$300million on June 20 & 24, 2008 at a redemption price equal to100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest.http://www.fanniemae.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of FINP securities issues amounting to a total ofUS$21.364 million on June 20, 2008 at a redemption price equalto 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest.http://www.fanniemae.com RIIS SIGNS... COPENHAGEN - Riis Cycling and Saxo Bank, the leading onlineinvestment bank, have signed an agreement that will let SaxoBank become a co-sponsor of Team CSC together with CSC.http://www.saxobank.com GM PICKS... TORONTO - Dyadem Tuesday announced that General Motors hasselected Dyadem's Stature platform to manage quality across itsengineering and manufacturing divisions globally.http://www.dyadem.comhttp://www.gm.com SOMATIC GAINS... CINCINNATI - Somatic Digital announced Tuesday that itgained a significant U.S. Government contract to provide NASAGoddard Flight Center with a Custom Solution Provider PartnerProgram and an unspecified number of eTouchBooks embedded withthe Touch User Interface technology.http://www.somaticdigital.com BNY MELLON SELECTED... SHANGHAI - BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, the global leader insecurities servicing, has been selected as Overseas Custodianfor Fortune SGAM Fund Management Co's first QDII, entitled theCCB Fortune SG Overseas Growth Equity Fund.http://www.bnymellon.com EXPERTS CALL... REYKJAVIK - Nearly 1,000 of the world's leading experts ininfectious diseases and vaccines are meeting during the 6thInternational Symposium on Pneumococci and PneumococcalDiseases (ISPPD-6) this week to call for renewed and urgentaction by governments to protect their citizens againstpneumococcal disease, a leading killer of children and adultsworldwide. NORKOM REPORTS... DUBLIN - Norkom has announced a 64 per cent increase inrevenues and a 59 per cent improvement in EBITDA for the yearending 31st March 2008 (2008).NATURE OFFERS...LONDON - Nature Publishing Group Tuesday announced thelaunch of a new English language editing service, NaturePublishing Group Language Editing.http://www.nature.com STUDIES REVEAL... JAKARTA - New studies, presented this week at the 6thInternational Symposium on Pneumococci & Pneumococcal Diseases(ISPPD) investigates the burden of pneumococcal disease (PD)among Indonesian children. FINDINGS REVEAL... JAKARTA - A study presented Tuesday at the 6th InternationalSymposium on Pneumococci & Pneumococcal Diseases (ISPPD) inReykjavik, Iceland indicates that routine childhood vaccinationwith the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) couldprevent a considerable proportion of this disease in vaccinatedchildren, as well as unvaccinated adults. I.TECH LAUNCHES... HONG KONG - i.Tech Dynamic proudly announces Tuesday that itis launching i.VoicePRO Bluetooth Headset -- the first headsetin the market with dual microphone using Bluetooth Profile v2.1to deliver the professional voice quality. AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.