SYDNEY--30 Jun--AsiaNet/InfoQuest CATERPILLAR CHINA... BEIJING - Caterpillar Inc. announced today plans to build world-classsmall-sized hydraulic excavators in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China. www.CAT.com BEIJING ACCOMMODATION... SYDNEY - At 25 June, hotel price comparison website HotelsCombined.comconducted research to determine if there is any accommodation still availablethroughout the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games.The results indicate that not only are there five-star hotels still availablebut there is accommodation for every wallet. www.HotelsCombined.com APLF EXHIBITION... HONG KONG - Over the three day period - March 31 to April 2, 2009 -- thoseattending, both exhibitors and buyers, enjoy a 'once-a-year' opportunity tocatch up with what is new, view the latest trends, meet new business partners,and exchange leather industry gossip. There is no trade show more highlyregarded, or better attended, than APLF -- Materials, Manufacturing &Technology (MM&T). http://www.aplf.com COMSCORE REPORT... TOKYO - comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, todayreleased findings on the Asia-Pacific market from its report "The State of theGlobal Internet with a Focus on Asia," which will be presented via free Webcastfrom Singapore and Japan in July. www.comscore.com EUROJET ENGINES... HALLBERGMOOS - EUROJET Turbo GmbH has delivered the 100th Tranche 2 EJ200engine to the customer. www.eurojet.eu CELLCOM ISRAEL... TEL AVIV - Cellcom Israel, Israel's Largest Mobile Operator, Launches thePlug & Talk Service Which Allows Users to Communicate in an Affordable Manner,While They are Abroad, Using Their Laptop. www.OutsmartTelecom.com PROGERIA TREATMENT... PARIS - Five years after the identification of the gene responsible forprogeria, a rare disease causing accelerated and premature ageing, a team ofSpanish and French researchers have successfully demonstrated a treatment forthe disease, using mice. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nm.1786 PHARMACEUTICAL MARKETING LONDON and TOKYO - Eularis is announcing the release of an update to itsreport, "Ensuring Profitable Return-on-Investment in Pharmaceutical Marketing:Using Analytics and Metrics to Improve the Bottom Line." www.eularis.com www.pharmamarketingroi.com/ PLASTIC BAGS... SYDNEY - Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch - campaigning for a ban onplastic shopping bags in all cities throughout New Zealand and Australia, LUSHFresh Handmade Cosmetics is sending giant bag monsters to descend on lunchtimeshoppers, urging them to swap their plastic shopping bags for a free, reusable,eco-friendly tote bag. SHELDON GOOD... JEFFERSON, North Carolina - Phoenix Colvard Development unveils a website www.SheldonGoodFraud.com that contains supporting documentation that Phoenixclaims exposes Sheldon Good in a scheme to charge for ads it never ran in theWall Street Journal Real Estate Section. www.SheldonGoodFraud.com BANCROFT ADDRESS... NEW YORK - The Group of North American Insurance Enterprises today reportedthat Philip Bancroft, a GNAIE Board Member and Chief Financial Officer of ACE,Ltd., a global leader in insurance and reinsurance, recently addressed theInternational Accounting Standards Committee Foundation, the oversight body ofthe International Accounting Standards Board. http://gnaie.net FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTNsecurities issues on July 7 and 9 at a redemption price equal to 100 per centof the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com AERCAP FACILITY... AMSTERDAM - AerCap Holdings N.V. today announced the closing of a $100million engine acquisition facility with a syndicate of US and German banks ledby Citi as global arranger. SLEEPING SICKNESS... NERVIANO - The development of fexinidazole for the treatment of Africantrypanosomiasis, commonly known as "sleeping sickness", by DNDi, along withAccelera, a business unit of Nerviano Medical Sciences, is to be honoured asone of DNDi's Success Stories of the Year. The award will be conferred today inNew York, at the prestigious headquarters of the New York Academy of Sciences,during the first annual Stakeholders'Meeting of DNDi. NEC NETCRACKER... TOKYO - NEC Corporation today announced a definitive agreement to acquireNetCracker Technology Corp., a US based software and solutions company with anindustry leading track record of delivering Operations Support Systemstransformation to communications service providers across the globe. www.nec.com www.NetCracker.com CYMBALTA APPROVAL INDIANAPOLIS - Eli Lilly and Co and Boehringer Ingelheim today announcedthat the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the EuropeanMedicines Agency has issued a positive opinion supporting the approval ofCymbalta for the treatment of Generalised Anxiety Disorder. www.lilly.co.uk www.boehringer-ingelheim.co.uk PTC GLASSHOUSE... SINGAPORE - Enterprise storage specialist PTC System will offer companies amore comprehensive data management solution through a new partnership with ITinfrastructure consulting and services firm GlassHouse Technologies, Inc. PTC'sin-depth experience has been combined with GlassHouse's proven expertise tohelp Asian customers with their enterprise storage infrastructure and DataProtection Recovery Management. www.ptcsys.com.sg AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.