SYDNEY--28 Jul--AsiaNet/InfoQuest GARP CONVENTION... NEW YORK, LONDON and BEIJING - The Global Association ofRisk Professional's 5th Annual Asia Pacific Convention --Asia's premier risk management event, will be held November19-21, 2008 in Hong Kong. This year's annual gathering willattract financial risk professionals from across the region andwill kick-off and conclude with four separate one-day workshopson November 19, 2008 and November 21, 2008. www.garp.com/events/Asia2008 SAXO BANK... PARIS and COPENHAGEN - In a statement following the finalresults of this year's Tour de France, the two founders of SaxoBank and joint CEOs, Kim Fournais and Lars Seier Christensen,praised the Team CSC Saxo Bank and said that with this Tour thecycling sport had reached a turning point. www.saxobank.com ICRETE APPOINTMENT... LOS ANGELES - iCrete, LLC, a company that is revolutionizingthe construction industry with its concrete mix optimizationtechnology system, announced today that John C. Cushman III,Chairman of global real estate services firm Cushman &Wakefield, Inc., has been named Co-Chairman of the Board ofiCrete. www.icrete.com ASSIST AMERICA... PRINCETON, New Jersey - Assist America, Inc., the world'sleading global emergency assistance services provider throughgroup benefit plans, announced today that Abhijit Bhandari hasbeen appointed as Director of Sales and Marketing for AssistAmerica Asia Ltd., the company's affiliate in the MiddleEast. www.assistamerica.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN and FINP securities issues amounting on August 4and 6, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of theprincipal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com INTERNET CHALLENGE... MELBOURNE - After reading about a challenge to write acomplete novel in 30 days, a Melbourne entrepreneur, decided toapply the same idea to his love of the Internet... andaccidentally started the world's largest Internet challenge. www.ThirtyDayChallenge2008.com OMC Asia Zone Cup Open 2008 at COSMOPROF ASIA 2008 HONG KONG - COSMOPROF ASIA is glad to announce that the OMCAsia Zone Cup Open 2008 will take place during COSMOPROF ASIA2008 at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre on day 1and 2 of the exhibition. The OMC Asia Zone Cup Open 2008 iswell-known as the Olympics of Hairdressing. www.cosmoprof-asia.com DIGI INTERNATIONAL... MINNEAPOLIS - Digi International Inc. reported revenue of$47.0 million for the third fiscal quarter of 2008, comparedwith $43.5 million for the third fiscal quarter of 2007, anincrease of $3.5 million, or 8.0%. Sarian Systems, Ltd. wasacquired on April 28, 2008; revenue from Sarian-brandedproducts was $2.4 million for the third fiscal quarter of 2008from date of acquisition. www.digi.com HOTEL BOOKINGS... SYDNEY - Book direct and save, best available internet rate,best price guarantee, best rate publicly available, best onlinerate guarantee these are words that hoteliers use on theirhotel website to persuade customers to book direct. www.HotelsCombined.com ELEMENT SIX... ASCOT - The Board of Element Six SA, an independentlymanaged joint venture between De Beers SA and Umicore SA, todayannounced that Christian Hultner, the CEO of Element Six, willleave the company on September 30th 2008 and has named CyrusJilla as the new CEO effective October 1st 2008. www.e6.com DIGI ACQUISITION... MINNETONKA, Minnesota - Digi International Inc. todayannounced the acquisition of Spectrum Design Solutions Inc., aprivately held Minneapolis based corporation and a leadingwireless design services organization. www.digi.com GATE GOURMET... SYDNEY - Gate Gourmet, the world's leading independentairline catering and logistics company and a member ofgategroup, has entered into agreements to acquire InflightLogistic Services, an Australian airline services firm. Thetransaction is expected to be completed within the next 6weeks. www.gategourmet.com www.gategroup.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.