SYDNEY--16 Jul--AsiaNet/InfoQuest CASTING DIRECTOR... LOS ANGELES: TVI Actors Studio, America's largest acting school and resourcecenter for actors, brings Los Angeles Casting Director, Nick Anderson from thesix time Emmy award-winning Hollywood casting offices of "Desperate Housewives"and "Prison Break" to Auckland on Saturday, July 26th.http://www.tvistudios.com BONDING WIRES... TOKYO: Tanaka Denshi Kogyo K.K. (Tokyo), the top manufacturer of bondingwires, will substantially expand the production of copper bonding wires withexcellent electrical conductivity and mechanical properties at bonding, all ata much lower price, to meet increasing demand as a substitute for gold bondingwire, prices of which have been rising with the prices of gold bullion. ALGORITHMIC TRADING... SINGAPORE: Progress Software Corporation, a provider of applicationinfrastructure software to develop, deploy, integrate and manage businessapplications, Wednesday announced that Korea's Leading Investment & Securitieshas become the country's first Korean-based securities firm to providealgorithmic trading capability to its international clients through itsadoption of Progress Apama.http://www.leading.co.krhttp://www.progress.com/asia ADDINTOOLS RELEASES... HAINAN: Addintools Technology Ltd Wednesday announced the release of ClassicMenu for Office 2007, an add-in for Microsoft Office 2007 Suite to provideeasier upgrade experience and smoother learning and training curve to the usersof previous versions of Microsoft Office.http://www.addintools.com XBRL CONFERENCE... WASHINGTON: XBRL International and XBRL US Wednesday jointly announced "TheUltimate Client: Business Reporting for Investors, Government and Citizens", aglobal conference that will explore how improved business and financialreporting through interactive data will affect investor communications,governance, risk and compliance as well as government reporting.http://www.xbrl.org/ushttp://conference.xbrl.orghttp://xbrl.us/pages/us-gaap.aspx OPEC OUTPUT... LONDON: The 13 members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries(OPEC) pumped an average 32.47 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil inJune, an increase of 230,000 b/d from the May level of 32.24 million b/d,according to the latest Platts survey of OPEC and oil industry officials.http://www.platts.comhttp://www.opec.platts.com TITAN ACHIEVES... CHARLOTTE, N.C.: TITAN Technology Partners, a global provider of hosted andmanaged industry solutions, Wednesday announced it has achieved twocertifications from SAP AG and is now an SAP-certified provider of applicationmanagement services in the United States and a certified SAP hosting partner. EMETER JOINS... SAN MATEO, Calif.: eMeter, a global leader in clean energy technology,Wednesday announced it has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP)program.http://www.emeter.com TRAVEL INVESTMENT... LONDON: Travel Investment Forum, organized by TTG and ttgbusiness, will betaking place in London on the 18th of September 2008. Owners, chief executivesand senior directors of travel operators and agencies will gather for thisall-day event, focusing on subjects such as private equity funding, legalissues surrounding acquisitions, and how to fine-tune long-term growth andinvestment strategies.http://www.ttglive.com/tif PATIENT CARE... BALTIMORE: Physicians and patients of community-based medical practices inNevada and SW Utah will benefit from a new partnership between PhysiciansPractice, America's Leading Practice Management Journal and Nevada CancerInstitute (NVCI).http://www.PhysiciansPractice.comhttp://www.nevadacancerinstitute.org FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of twosecurities issues amounting to a total of US$64.155 million on July 25, 2008 ata redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plusaccrued interest.http://www.fanniemae.com NEW PRODUCT... SAN JOSE, Calif.: Micrel Inc., an industry leader in analog, high bandwidthcommunications, and Ethernet IC solutions, Tuesday added an Ultra-Low VoltageCML product family to its growing portfolio of high performance interfaceproducts.http://www.micrel.com PETRONAS RESULTS... KUALA LUMPUR: The financial year ended 31 March 2008 was yet another highlychallenging year for the PETRONAS Group as it continues to strive to generatevalue amidst an increasingly volatile and uncertain global oil and gas industryenvironment beleaguered with escalating cost and an acute shortage ofexperienced personnel as well as equipment. PALME INDIA... MUMBAI: PALME India 2008 has attracted some of the biggest names in theprofessional audio visual industry driven by the growth in the colossal Indianfilm industry and burgeoning live event and night club scene.http://www.palme-india.comhttp://www.smc-pr.com EXPEDIA ACQUIRES... SEATTLE and ROME: Expedia, Inc. Tuesday announced that it has entered intoan agreement to acquire Italy-based Venere Net ApA (http://www.venere.com) fromAdvent International and the founding partners.http://www.expedia.com TOP RATING... MAHWAH, N.J.: The Creating Wellness Alliance (CWA), experts in designingcustom wellness programs for consumers and corporations, has been awarded thetop rating for their nutritional supplement Vitalize.http://www.creatingwellness.comhttp://www.comparativeguide.com NEW PARTNERSHIP... LONDON: Celltick, the pioneer of mobile idle screen marketing solutions,Tuesday announced a new partnership with San Francisco-based Greystripe, theleading ad-supported mobile games and applications distributor.http://www.celltick.comhttp://www.gamejump.comhttp://www.greystripe.com AHF PARTNERS... NEW DELHI: India's Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and AIDSHealthcare Foundation (AHF), the US largest HIV/AIDS organization, whichoperates free AIDS treatment clinics in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbeanand Asia (including two clinics in India -- Delhi and Mysore), Tuesdayannounced the formation of a new partnership through which AHF India Cares willwork closely with the University to promote and implement training andeducation programs for people working in the field of HIV/AIDS.http://www.aidshealth.org AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.