SYDNEY--27 Jun--AsiaNet/InfoQuest OPTIMUM LAUNCHED... HONG KONG: Optimum Hong Kong Limited, Hong Kong's only full-servicerecruitment company targeted exclusively at the financial and investmentbanking sectors, was Friday launched by its founder and managing directorNicholas Neal.http://www.optimumrecruit.com COUNTERFEIT RELACORE... SALT LAKE CITY, Utah: Commenting on recent newspaper reports that Relacorecontains harmful ingredients, the company's Director of Marketing, Gina Daines,said the harmful product is a counterfeit.http://www.relacore.com NEW YORK: Lufthansa Cargo AG and Swiss International Air Lines Ltd haveissued a statement regarding the In re Air Cargo Shipping Services AntitrustLitigation.http://www.aircargosettlement.comhttp://media.lufthansa.com PERU LNG... LIMA: PERU LNG Friday announced that it has secured $2.25 billion in loansfrom third party credit agencies to finance the construction of the PERU LNGproject. 5-YEAR ALLIANCE... HYDERABAD, and PARIS: DQ Entertainment International (DQE), the AIM listedIndia based animation entertainment company, and MoonScoop Group, Europe'sleading management and entertainment company engaged in the production,distribution, licensing, merchandising, marketing and distribution of animatedcreations, Friday announced that they have entered into a 5 year alliance.http://www.dqentertainment.comhttp://www.moonscoop.com RISI EXPECTS... BOSTON: RISI, the leading information provider for the global forestproducts industry, expects that publishers and marketers could sharply scaleback plans this fall for catalogs and direct mail.http://www.risiinfo.com ARCHITECTS DISCUSS... LONDON: Partners, Directors and Senior Architects are set to gather atBuilding's Sustainable Non-Dwellings Conference on 10th July 2008 in London, tohear how the construction industry could be affected by the 2019 zero-carbontargets for non-domestic buildings.http://www.greenbuildingconference.co.uk SIMSARI PARTICIPATES... DUBAI: Simsari.com, the Middle East's largest online marketplace specialisedin real estate, Thursday announced that it will for the first time participateat Cityscape Shanghai, scheduled to take place from 25 - 27 June 2008 at thenew international expo centre in Shanghai, China. NOVELIS COMPLETES... SEOUL: Novelis Korea Limited Friday announced that it has successfullycompleted the installation of Novelis Fusion technology at its plant in Ulsan,South Korea, and has begun commercial production of multi-alloy aluminum sheetproducts.http://www.novelis.comhttp://www.novelis.co.krhttp://www.novelis.com/fusion CMP PARTNERS... LONDON: CMP Information, the organiser of the world's largest annualsecurity event, IFSEC, Thursday announced its partnership with SpecialisedExhibitions (a subsidiary of Andry Montgomery Ltd), owner of Securex, SouthAfrica's largest security event.http://www.ifsec.co.uk/southafrica PLATFORM EXPLOSION... LONDON: To mark the 20th anniversary of the North Sea Piper Alpha oilplatform explosion, SHP magazine is bringing together both sides to discusswhether things really have changed, or is another disaster waiting to happen.http://www.shponline.co.ukhttp://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/programme.htmhttp://tinyurl.com/64oegs AIRCRAFT SECURITISATION... AMSTERDAM: AerCap Holdings N.V. Thursday announced the closing of a $1billion aircraft securitization through Aircraft Lease Securitisation IILimited.http://www.aercap.com FRIENDSTER ANNOUNCES... SAN FRANCISCO and SINGAPORE: Friendster, Inc., the 7th largest website inthe world and the #1 social network in Asia, Thursday announced at ad:techSingapore that its users in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippineswill soon be able to subscribe to Friendster Text Alerts, a full suite ofalerts covering activity in their Friendster network, sent directly to theirmobile devices via SMS text messages.www.friendster.com AVASTIN BENEFITS... BASEL: Data presented Thursday at the 10th World Congress onGastrointestinal Cancer (WCGC) in Barcelona confirm that Avastin (bevacizumab)significantly improves survival in patients with metastatic colorectal cancerregardless of whether they have mutation in a gene known as K-Ras.http://www.thenewsmarket.com NAME CHANGE... FRANKFURT: Barat Carbide GmbH has changed its name to Element Six HardMaterials. Having joined Element Six in late 2007, it now represents a majorbusiness area for the company as a whole. AGREEMENTS SIGNED... SHANGHAI: Leading Asian real estate and investment associations signed araft of agreements on Thursday 26 June at Cityscape China, which concludes onFriday 27th June at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre in Pudong.http://www.smc-pr.comhttp://www.cityscapechina.com UZONEMEDIA PARTNERS... SINGAPORE and SUNNYVALE, Calif.:UzoneMedia Inc. celebrated the commencement of its partnership withComfortDelGro, leading taxi operator in Singapore for the launch ofUzoneMedia's iCabTV network. CITYSCAPE CHINA... SHANGHAI: Major developers from around the world including a strong MiddleEastern delegation are on show at Cityscape China 2008, which is currentlytaking place at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre in Pudong and whichconcludes Friday 27 June.http://www.smc-pr.comhttp://www.cityscapechina.com BEST OFFICE... LONDON: The organisers of the London-based built environment exhibitionWorking Buildings 2008, is searching for London's best office.http://www.working-buildings.com/awards ENERSYS ANNOUNCES... READING, Pa.: EnerSys, the world's largest manufacturer, marketer anddistributor of industrial batteries and Accumulateur Tunisie Assad SA, themarket leader in automotive batteries in Tunisia and North Africa, Thursdayannounced the formation of a new joint venture company for the production andsale of industrial batteries. Ritchie Bros. buyers need equipment, shatter records with AU$55 millionauction near Brisbane VANCOUVER: Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers conducted the largest Australianauction in company history this week, selling A$55 million (US$52 million) ofcranes, heavy equipment and trucks during a two-day unreserved public auctionat its Brisbane auction site on June 24 & 25, 2008.www.rbauction.com TMI EXPANDS... KUALA LUMPUR: TM International Berhad (TMI) had on 25 June 2008 inked a dealwith Idea Cellular Limited, Aditya Birla Group and Spice CommunicationsLimited, which will result in TMI expanding significantly its presence in India.www.tmigroup.comwww.ideacellular.comwww.adityabirla.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.