SYDNEY--25 Nov--AsiaNet/ Infoquest
STAR ARCHITECT...
NEW YORK - Chinese born star architect I.M. Pei, known for such iconic buildings as the Bank of China building in Hong Kong, the Pyramid of the Louvre in Paris or the Four Seasons hotel in New York designed his first condominium building in the heart of Manhattan.
www.newyorkresidence.com
LOCATION-BASED SERVICES...
SINGAPORE - Location-based services in Asia-Pacific are expected to see strong growth in the next five years, with wider adoption in the more advanced and saturated mobile and mobile data markets.
www.frost.com
www.wireless.frost.com
OCH-ZIFF CAPITAL...
NEW YORK - Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC, today announced that it has hired four senior real estate investment professionals in Asia in a continued effort to augment Och-Ziff's global real estate capabilities.
www.ozcap.com
BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK...
NEW YORK - Bloomberg Tradebook Services LLC has launched its new electronic foreign exchange trading platform on the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service.
OMNIVISION SENSOR...
SANTA CLARA - OmniVision Technologies, Inc., a leading independent supplier of CMOS image sensors, today introduced the OV6930, the latest addition to its portfolio of medical image sensors.
www.ovt.com
WORLD ENERGY...
WORCESTER, MA. and HAMBURG - World Energy Solutions, Inc., an operator of online exchanges for energy and green commodities, today announced N.serve Environmental Services GmbH sold 300,000 primary CERs to Electrabel GDF Suez via the World Green Exchange.
www.worldenergy.com
RESEARCH SOFTWARE...
MELBOURNE - Japanese researchers will be among the first to experience a new dedicated language version of leading qualitative research software, NVivo 8, launched by QSR International and Tokyo based firm, Hulinks.
www.hulinks.co.jp
TISSUE BUSINESS...
BEDFORD, Massachusetts - RISI announces the publication of its highly anticipated Outlook for World Tissue Business, an annual report that provides thorough analysis and extensive detail about regional/country tissue markets and identifies medium- to long-term tissue industry trends.
www.risiinfo.com
TRAVEL RESEARCH...
WASHINGTON - The Travel Industry Association announced today a milestone for DiscoverAmerica.com: Within three months of completing its international launch, online users have viewed 1.1 million pages and spent one million minutes researching travel to the United States on the nation's new official
travel and tourism website.
www.poweroftravel.com
www.tia.org
WESTINGHOUSE NUCLEAR...
PITTSBURGH - Westinghouse Electric Company announced today that its expects its participation in a nuclear-focused trade mission to India next week to be the beginning of a long and mutually rewarding relationship with a wide range of Indian power companies, suppliers and academic institutions.
www.ap1000.westinghousenuclear.com
FRIENDS CAMBODIA...
MENLO PARK, California - Friends Without a Border has announced the opening of the Center for Friends Without a Border in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
SINGAPORE BROADBAND...
CARDIFF - The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore has selected Epitiro to supplement its broadband performance monitoring activities as part of the country's plan to create a competitive business environment.
www.epitiro.com
SIFY COMMUNICATIONS...
CHENNAI - Sify Technologies Limited, a leader in Consumer, Internet and Enterprise Services in India with global delivery capabilities, announced today its decision to proceed with the planned merger of Sify Communications Limited into Sify Technologies Limited.
www.samachar.com
www.walletwatch.com
www.sifymax.com
www.chennailive.in
www.bangalorelive.in
www.mumbailive.in
www.hyderabadlive.in
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$30 million on December 4, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
E6 VENTURES...
ASCOT - E6 Ventures has agreed to participate in the next round of funding in Diamond Hard Surfaces Ltd. Set up in 2005 by its chief technical officer, Sergey Aleksandrov, Diamond Hard Surfaces is a high technology company that has developed a low temperature process to create thick amorphous diamond-like
carbon coatings applicable in a broad range of wear-related applications in a number of industrial sectors.
www.e6ventures.com
HIV CARE...
JOHANNESBURG - A new grant program from the M*A*C AIDS Fund has gifted $2.5 million to fight HIV and AIDS in South Africa.
www.macaidsfund.org
RUSSIAN BULLETIN...
MOSCOW - Platts, a leading global provider of energy and commodities information and a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, today announced it is joining forces with Interfax Information Services Group, a leading source of real-time business news from Russia and the CIS, to launch EnergoScan-Interfax & Platts, a new Russian-language publication serving the needs of Russia's energy, business, and financial communities.
www.platts.com
www.energoscan.ru
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