SYDNEY--26 Jun--AsiaNet/InfoQuest TRANSUNION LAUNCHES... CHICAGO and HONG KONG: TransUnion Thursday announced the launch of PersonalLoan Score, the industry's first credit scoring tool designed to helpbusinesses reduce delinquency of unsecured loans for the Hong Kong market. http://www.transunion.com OASMIA EXPANDS... UPPSALA: Oasmia Pharmaceutical has expanded the agreement With OrionCorporation, Finland. Orion's Exclusive Marketing and Sales Rights for PaclicalVet now includes all European countries. http://www.oasmia.com http://www.ngm.se SHELDON RESPONDS... CHICAGO: Norman Berger, Esq., an attorney for Sheldon Good & CompanyInternational, LLC, a real estate auction company based in Chicago, Thursdaycharacterized as "absolutely baseless" a June 20th Phoenix Colvard Developmentlegal action filed "pro se" -- without attorney -- claiming that real estateadvertisements in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times that clientspaid for, never appeared. http://www.sheldongood.com GRAPHICS CARDS... MONTREAL: Matrox Graphics Thursday announced the availability of itsM-Series multi-monitor graphics cards which offer 512MB of memory, native PCIex16 performance, and support for independent or stretched mode on up to fourmonitors simultaneously. http://www.matrox.com/graphics WEIGHT LOSS... TUCSON, Ariz.: The Pen and Paper Diet, a new book by Michael Dow, provides asimple solution for weight loss and a way for a person to maintain their idealweight. http://www.thepenandpaperdiet.net TRADE FAIR... NEW DELHI: It was announced Wednesday that a new trade fair initiative inIndia to be launched by APLF Ltd, Footwear, Materials Manufacturing andTechnology (FMM&T) will take place in Delhi in the Spring of 2009. http://www.aplf.com http://www.primesourceforum.com ANG TECHNOLOGY... SINGAPORE: DML PTE Ltd., operator of the Merpati Flight direct fromSingapore to Bandung West Java and manufacturer of police patrol boats withplanned CNG ships, and Energtek Inc., developer of Adsorbed Natural Gas supplysystems, have formed a $25 million joint venture to commercialize ANGTechnology in Southeast Asia. FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of twosecurities issues amounting to a total of US$235 million on July 5 and 9, 2008at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemedplus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com ANADIGICS ANNOUNCES... WARREN, N.J.: ANADIGICS, Inc. Wednesday launched its ARA2017, the firstprogrammable gain amplifier optimized for DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem and E-MTAapplications. http://www.anadigics.com http://www.anadigics.com/worldwide_sales ROSUM COMPLETES... MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.: Rosum Corporation Wednesday announced that it hassuccessfully completed a DVB-H positioning trial in collaboration with NationalGrid Wireless, the U.K.'s leading provider of large-scale transmissioninfrastructure. http://www.rosum.com STUDENT INNOVATORS... LOS ANGELES and BOSTON: The USC Stevens Institute for Innovation haspartnered with the Deshpande Foundation, a leading philanthropic foundationfocused on innovation and international development, to pilot a summer programfor student innovators to develop scalable ideas for improving the quality oflife in specific regions of India. http://stevens.usc.edu SOFTSWITCHING LAUNCHES... MIDDLETON, WI: SoftSwitching Technologies (SST), a growing global leader inthe power quality industry, Wednesday announced the launch of its DySC Globalproduct line. http://www.SoftSwitch.com Q1 RESULTS... CLEVELAND: American Greetings Corporation Wednesday announced its firstquarter results for the fiscal quarter ended May 30, 2008. http://corporate.americangreetings.com CMPI CAPTIVATES... ABU DHABI: The internationally acclaimed CMPi is set to captivate car andbike enthusiasts from around the world with their recently announced festival:'TURBO: For A Custom Nation'.' http://www.cmpi.biz http://www.custom-nation.com DIRECT FLIGHTS... BEIJING: Air China Wednesday announced that from July 4th, 2008 it will becommencing regular direct flights from Beijing to Taipei and Kaohsiung, Taiwan. http://www.airchina.com.cn AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.