SYDNEY--13 Aug--AsiaNet/InfoQuest CMP ASIA WBSITE... HONG KONG - CMP Asia, the leading trade fair organiser inAsia , has established an on-line platform --FashionNetAsia.com, to provide a trading network and year-roundmarketing and sourcing platform for global materials andcomponents suppliers, designers, manufacturers and buyers ofthe leather and fashion accessories trades.http://www.cmpasia.comhttp://FashionNetAsia.comhttp://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com AUSTRALIAN CREDIT... MELBOURNE - Australians could be set to get cheap credit ifthe credit report reforms proposed by the ALRC are acted uponby the Commonwealth Government, says independent creditchecking website, checkmyfile.http://www.checkmyfile.com.au ALERIS RESULTS... BEACHWOOD, Ohio - Aleris International, Inc. today reportedresults for the quarter ended June 30, 2008.Second Quarter Highlights-- EBITDA from continuing operations, excluding specialitems, improved by 8% to $104.5 million in the second quarterof 2008 from $96.9 million in the second quarter of 2007despite continued softening in the underlying global economy.http://aleris.com/ TECHINSIGHTS INTRODUCTION... SAN FRANCISCO - TechInsights, the daily source of essentialbusiness and technical information for the electronicsindustry's decision makers, today announced TechInsightsDirect, the first online portal that enables technologymarketers to search, analyze, buy and manage online and printadvertising programs from EE Times, Embedded Systems Design andTechOnline.http://www.techinsights.com/directhttp://www.techinsights.comhttp://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com SPANISH STUDENTS.... HALLBERGMOOS - Three students of the Leonardo Da Vinci HighSchool in Madrid, Spain, won the Eurofighter Typhoon Trophy atthe third International Aerospace Summer School competition.Eleven Teams from 10 nations competed in this unique eventsupported, for the third year running, by the four NationEurofighter consortium. TELCOTV AWARDS... IRVINE, Calif. - TelcoTV, the premier meeting place for themassive convergence of the entertainment and communicationsmarkets, today announces a new awards program for TelcoTV 2008.The TelcoTV Vision Awards will honor innovation in video andentertainment convergence. Awards will be granted to the mostcompelling new products, applications, or services in each ofthe seven designated categories: Broadband Access Network,Conditional Access, Customer Premises Equipment, Middleware,Encoding, and two awards for Service Provider Innovation. Aneighth award, Best in Show, will be bestowed upon the mostinnovative, most interesting technology on display atTelcoTV.http://www.cmp.comhttp://www.TelcoTVonline.comhttp://www.lightreading.comhttp://www.techweb.comhttp://www.ntca.org FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON - Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount ofUS$611.053 million of MTN securities issues on August 21, 2008at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principalamounts redeemed, plus accrued interest thereon to the date ofredemptionhttp://www.fanniemae.com MADONNA GIVENCHY... PARIS - Madonna has chosen French Haute Couture houseGivenchy for her new "Sticky and Sweet" world tour which startson the 23rd august in Cardiff (United Kingdom). VANCOUVER FILM SCHOOL... VANCOUVER - Vancouver Film School (VFS), Canada's premierpost-secondary entertainment arts institution, is celebratingthe grand opening of four new international offices, includingone in Mumbai, by offering scholarships to all 13 of itsfull-time programs. ABBYY ANNOUNCEMENT... FREMONT, Calif.- ABBYY, a leading provider of documentrecognition, data capture and linguistic software, todayannounced the opening of its new office, ABBYY USA SoftwareHouse, Inc. Taiwan Branch, which officially began operation onFriday, August 8, 2008.http://www.ABBYY.com DRUG CONTRACTS... MELBOURNE- CogState Ltd (ASX:CGS) today announced that ithas signed a contract with an international pharmaceuticalcompany to provide its computerized cognitive testingtechnology and associated services for use in a phase IIIschizophrenia study.www.cogstate.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.