SYDNEY--11 Jul--AsiaNet/InfoQuest BESSEMER VENTURE... MUMBAI - Bessemer Venture Partners announced today that itsIndia operation has formed an Advisory Group.www.bvp.com PERMANENT PRIVACY... LONDON - Permanent Privacy announces the world's firstpractical data encryption system that is absolutelyunbreakable. And is offering a US$1,000,000 challenge to anyonewho can crack it.www.permanentprivacy.com ENERGYIP SOFTWARE... SAN MATEO, California - eMeter, a global leader in cleanenergy technology, has announced that its EnergyIP software hasreached a major milestone with the introduction of EnergyIPversion 6.0.www.emeter.com ASARCO BUYERS... WASHINGTON - Two leading U.S. House Judiciary Committeemembers -- Rep. John Conyers, Jr., chairman of the HouseJudiciary Committee and Rep. Lamar Smith, ranking member of theHouse Judiciary Committee have asked U.S. Attorney GeneralMichael B. Mukasey to have the Department of Justice focus itsattention on the environmental records of Vedanta/Sterlite andother companies seeking to gain control of U.S. copper minerASARCO.http://216.250.243.12/ConyersSmithletter.pdf MICROCREDIT SUMMIT... NUSA DUA - The Microcredit Summit Campaign have issued apress release regarding their upcoming summit in Indonesia.www.microcreditsummit.org TISSUE EXHIBITION... NICE - Tissue World 2009, the biggest and most importantevent in the Tissue World series, will take place on March23-26, 2009 in Nice. It is the original meeting place which hasdeveloped since 1993 to become the world's biggest eventdedicated specifically to the soft tissue paper business.www.tissueworld.com TISSUE AMERICAS... MIAMI - Tissue World Americas, the leading conference andtrade show for the North and South American tissue businesses,was very successfully held during March 11-14, 2008 in sunnyMiami Beach, Florida, USA.www.tissueworld.com IMAX JV... MISSISSAUGA - IMAX Corporation and Hoyts Cinemas Ltd., oneof the largest exhibitors in Australia, today announced a jointventure agreement to install four IMAX theatres in the citiesof Perth, Melbourne and Sydney. SINGAPORE EXCHANGE... SINGAPORE - Deputy Chairman of the Monetary Authority ofSingapore and Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr Lim Hng Kiangwas the Guest of Honour at the Global Financial Market Summit2008 where plans were announced to set up Singapore MercantileExchange, a new international commodity derivatives exchange inSingapore.www.ftindia.comwww.smx.com.sg MICROSOFT WISEKEY... GENEVA, and HOUSTON, Texas - Microsoft Corp. and WISeKeytoday announced that they were selected by the RegionalGovernment of Biscay for the delivery of a comprehensivee-Government Citizen Services Platform.www.wisekey.com/csp/biscaytik.htm GAMELOFT APPLE... NEW YORK - Gameloft, a leading developer and publisher ofmobile and console games, announced six games now available onthe Apple App Store launching today.www.gameloft.com XML CERTIFICATION... TOKYO - The XML Technology Certification Committee todayannounced the worldwide release of the "XML Master ProfessionalDatabase Administrator" exam, certifying technicalprofessionals in XQuery and XML DB.www.xmlmaster.org/en/www.prometric.com VALEO AWARD... PARIS - Valeo announces that it has received the GlobalInnovation Award from Nissan Motor Co. for its contribution totheir Lane Departure Prevention system. PROGNOSIS SERVERS... DENVER - Following HP's launch of the industry's firstfault-tolerant blade server running HP NonStop, IntegratedResearch today announced that its PROGNOSIS performancemonitoring software is ready to support the needs of customersadopting this new server technology.www.prognosis.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$4million on July 20, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.http://www.fanniemae.com KORN/FERRY SURVEY... LOS ANGELES - An uncertain global economy and labor marketare not significantly affecting hiring plans for new graduates,according to survey results released today.www.kornferry.com WS DOMAINS... SEOUL - While the head office is located in the U.S.,California, Global Domains International, Inc holds exclusiveauthority over the domains of Western Samoa.http://gdikorea.ws FOOD INGREDIENTS.. MUMBAI - CMP India and CMP Information, The Netherlands, isonce again organizing Fi India 2008, a two-day InternationalExhibition and Conference on Food Ingredients in Mumbai onOctober 3-4th, 2008.www.fi-events.comwww.cmpasia.comwww.ubmindia.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.