SYDNEY--18 Jul--AsiaNet/InfoQuest APPROVAL RECEIVED... NEW YORK: ContourGlobal Togo, a subsidiary of international power companyContourGlobal, received approval Friday for $209 million in financing andpolitical risk insurance from the Board of Directors of the Overseas PrivateInvestment Corporation (OPIC) for the construction and operation of a powerplant in Lome, Togo. http://www.contourglobal.com TRIUMPH AWARD... MUNICH: For the grand final of the Triumph Inspiration Award'08, to takeplace on July 31 in Beijing, all the competing finalists will be under thescrutiny of one of the most demanding juries to have ever judged lingerieinspiration. www.triumph-inspiration-award.com CONTAINER CONFERENCE... NEWARK, N.J.: The most pressing issues affecting container trade andlogistics in the Europe-Asia, trans-Pacific and Intra-Asia markets -- from anAsian perspective -- will be covered on September 17 and 18 at The Journal ofCommerce Conferences Second Annual TPM ASIA Conference: Asia's Global ContainerConference at the InterContinental Shenzhen Hotel in Shenzhen, China. http://www.cbizmedia.com http://www.joc.com/conferences/tpm_asia Q2 RESULTS... AMSTERDAM: AerCap Holdings N.V. Friday announced that it will host aconference call and webcast for investors and analysts at 9:30 am Eastern Time/ 3:30 pm Central European Time on Thursday, August 7, 2008 to review itssecond-quarter financial results. http://www.aercap.com RESERVATION REQUESTS... LONDON: Following the opening of the reservations list for the world's firstDynamic Tower in Dubai, more than 600 requests have been submitted forresidential apartments, Rotating Tower Dubai Development Ltd. announcedThursday. http://www.dynamicarchitecture.net GSMA CALLS... HONG KONG: The GSMA, the global trade group for the mobile industry,Thursday made an official call for entries to the Asia Mobile Awards 2008 andthe Asia Pacific round of its Mobile Innovation Global Competition, both ofwhich will culminate at the Mobile Asia Congress, Asia's leading mobilecommunications event that takes place in Macau, SAR People's Republic of China(18-20 November 2008). http://www.asiamobileawards.com http://www.mobileinnovation.org/Awards SPIRIT RELEASES... WICHITA, Kan.: Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. will release its secondquarter 2008 financial results at 6:30 a.m. Central Time, on Thursday, July 31,2008. http://www.spiritaero.com MICREL LAUNCHES... SAN JOSE, Calif.: Micrel Inc., an industry leader in analog, high bandwidthcommunications and Ethernet IC solutions, Thursday launched the KSZ8851, asingle-port embedded controller chip with 8/16/32-bit and SPI host interfaces. http://www.micrel.com ISUPPLI ACQUIRES... EL SEGUNDO, Calif.: iSuppli Corp. Thursday announced it is drivingautomotive market research to the next level by acquiring Telematics ResearchGroup, Inc. (TRG), the leader in vehicle-electronics business intelligence. http://www.isuppli.com BANK LICENCE... MANAMA: The Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) has granted a license to BSI AG(Generali), a major Swiss Private Banking group, with assets under managementtotaling CHF 94 billion and shareholders equity of around CHF 2.3 billion, toestablish an office in Bahrain. http://www.bsibank.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.