SYDNEY--28 Oct--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
SURETY BONDS...
SINGAPORE: Marsh, the world's leading insurance broker and risk adviser,
Tuesday said that more businesses across Asia are freeing up much-needed
capital by switching to surety bonds from bank guarantees.
http://www.marsh.com
http://www.mmc.com
OVERSI IMPLEMENTS...
PETACH TIKVA: Oversi, a pioneer of over-the-top (OTT) caching and delivery
solutions, Tuesday announced the first implementation of its NetEnhancer
management tool for peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic.
http://www.oversi.com
Q3 RESULTS...
SAO PAULO: As previously scheduled, Banco Itau Holding Financeira S.A.
notifies that it will announce its third quarter Financial Statements for 2008
on November 4, following a review by independent auditors and approval by the
Board of Directors at a meeting to be held on November 3.
http://www.itau.com
PNEUMOCCOCAL DISEASE...
WASHINGTON: Data from a pivotal trial and three other Phase 3 studies
presented Tuesday indicate that Wyeth's investigational 13-valent pneumococcal
conjugate vaccine (PCV13) may offer broader protection against pneumococcal
disease (PD) in infants and young children compared to Prevnar, Pneumococcal
7-valent Conjugate Vaccine (Diphtheria CRM197 Protein).
NEOSTEM SECURES...
NEW YORK: NeoStem, Inc., which is pioneering the pre-disease collection,
processing and long-term storage of adult stem cells for future medical need,
announced Tuesday that it has closed on a private placement financing in the
amount of $250,000.
www.neostem.com
ELLE MACPHERSON...
LONDON: Elle Macpherson on Monday released a statement emphatically denying
that there is any romantic association between her and Mr Brian Burgess.
SRMG ESTABLISHES...
RIYADH: Saudi Research and Marketing Group (SRMG), the largest integrated
publishing group in the Middle East, announced the establishment of a joint
venture with Saudi Arabia's leading telecommunications company, Saudi Telecom
(STC) and All Asia Networks Plc (ASTRO), a leading cross-media operator with
operations in Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia and India.
http://www.srmg.com
FINANCIAL RESULTS...
SAO PAULO: Banco Bradesco on Monday released the main figures of its
financial results for the first nine months of 2008.
http://www.bradesco.com.br/ir
MERRIAM-WEBSTER ATTENDS...
SPRINGFIELD, Mass.: Representatives from Merriam-Webster, America's leading
English language reference publisher, will be traveling to Tokyo, Japan at the
end of this month to attend the 34th annual International Conference on
Language Teaching and Learning & Educational Materials Expo sponsored by JALT,
the Japan Association for Language Teaching.
http://www.Merriam-Webster.com
CATTLE VACCINE...
BELLEVILLE: Bioniche Life Sciences Inc., a research-based, technology-driven
Canadian biopharmaceutical company, Monday announced that Econiche, the world's
first vaccine designed to reduce the shedding by cattle of Escherichia coli (E.
coli) O157:H7, has received full licensing approval from the Canadian Food
Inspection Agency (CFIA).
www.Bioniche.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of four
securities issues amounting to a total of US$565 million on Nov 6, 2008 at a
redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus
accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
ATMEL ANNOUNCES...
BOSTON: ESC Boston, MA, Booth Number 801 -- Atmel Corporation Monday
announced its latest family of 32 MIPS, picoPower 8/16-bit microcontroller that
radically improves MCU performance by off-loading interrupts and data transfers
to an on-chip event manager and DMA.
http://www.atmel.com
KORN/FERRY ESTABLISHES...
SINGAPORE: Korn/Ferry International, a premier global provider of talent
management solutions, Monday announced that it is creating a new Global Supply
Chain Center of Expertise (COE) based in Shanghai, China.
http://www.kornferry.com
COLLABORATION RESTRUCTURED...
MELBOURNE: MuriGen Therapeutics Monday announced that its collaboration with
CSL for the development of a new class of drugs that target arthritis and other
inflammatory diseases has been restructured.
www.murigen.com.au
www.wehi.edu.au
DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT...
KOBE: Carna Biosciences, Inc. Monday announced the signing of a distribution
agreement with Shanghai Universal Biotech Company. Under the terms of this
agreement, SUBC will become the exclusive distributor of Carna's protein
kinases within China.
http://www.carnabio.com/english
www.univ-bio.com
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