SYDNEY--4 Feb--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
WESTERN UNION...
ENGLEWOOD: Soon, the world will see global money transfer company Western
Union through a new set of eyes. Tuesday, for the first time in the company's
150-year history, Western Union launched its first-ever comprehensive global
brand initiative.
www.westernunion.com
PLENTYROOMS.COM...
SINGAPORE: New discount hotel booking site offers travelers one of the
widest range of hotel options in all the major travel destinations worldwide
along with two payment modes for online bookings, including the novel "book
now, pay later" option.
http://www.plentyrooms.com
BIG+BIH FAIRS...
BANGKOK: Bangkok International Gift Fair and Bangkok International Houseware
Fair (BIG+BIH), known as Asia's most prominent exhibitions for gift and
decorative industries, are back in April with even higher level of commitment
to deliver the best of quality, design and business values.
www.thaitrade.com
www.bigandbih.com
OVERCOMING BARRIERS...
LOMBARD: The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) will
hold its fifth European global conference, Turning Supply Chain Barriers into
Successes, in Copenhagen, Denmark May 13-15 at the campus of the Copenhagen
Business School in Frederiksberg.
SURVEY HIGHLIGHTS...
MELBOURNE: People in Australia and New Zealand most at risk from some
cancers will often downplay their own risk, a global survey today highlighted.
http://www.uicc.org
RISI INTRODUCES...
BOSTON: RISI, the leading provider of information for the global forest
products industry, Tuesday announced new weekly price coverage of US exports of
recovered paper to China.
www.risiinfo.com
ONTARIO GOVERNMENT...
TORONTO: Ontario is looking for innovative ways to turn available wood from
Ontario's Crown forests into new investment and jobs.
http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/About/2ColumnSubPage/249086.html
ASIAN MARKET...
SINGAPORE: Although currently Metformins and SFUs are most preferred
medications, in the future, new products such as DPP-4, GLP-1, DGAT are likely
to be used by the physicians which thereby increasing the number of type 2
patients on oral antidiabetic drugs.
http://www.frost.com
PAN PACIFIC...
SINGAPORE: Pan Pacific Hotels and Resorts and Parkroyal Hotels & Resorts
announce the opening of their Global Sales Office in Sydney, Australia.
http://parkroyalhotels.com
http://panpacific.com
VIP.TEL DOMAINS...
SINGAPORE: Telnic Limited, the registry operator for the new .tel top level
domain, Tuesday announced that all free trial VIP.tel test domains have now
been updated to support Profiles and now contain all of the major elements of
the personal functionality available when .tel domains go live.
http://www.telnic.org
SCOTIABANK INCREASES...
TORONTO and BANGKOK: Scotiabank today announced that it has completed the
acquisition of an additional 24 per cent of Thanachart Bank, Thailand's
eighth-largest bank and leading automobile lender, for THB7,700 million
approximately C$268 million.
www.scotiabank.com
HUDSON HIGHLAND...
NEW YORK: udson Highland Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: HHGP), a leading provider of
permanent recruitment, contract professionals and talent management services
worldwide, Tuesday announced that it will release fourth quarter and full-year
financial results for the period ended December 31, 2008 before the market
opens on February 17, 2009.
www.hudson.com
K2 CONNECT...
REDMOND: K2, a division of SourceCode Technology Holdings Inc., Wednesday
announced the global availability of K2 connect for SAP -- no-code software
that increases business efficiency and reduces IT costs by bridging the gap
between SAP and the world of process-driven applications, forms and Microsoft
Office SharePoint Server.
http://www.k2.com/connect
MOVIE BUFFS...
MELBOURNE: Movie buffs around the world now have an opportunity to lick
their favourite Oscar winning actors by purchasing their own stamps of Nicole
Kidman, Cate Blanchett, Russell Crowe and Geoffrey Rush.
www.auspost.com.au/legends
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTN
securities issues amounting to a total of US$305 million on February 13, 2009
at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed
plus accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
MILLION DOLLAR PUTT...
OBERTAUERN: This weekend the Snowgolf World Championship 2009 teed off a new
dimension in golf.
http://www.pnyg.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON: The following is being issued by Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM): 5-Year
benchmark notes, with a settlement date on February 5, 2009, maturing on
February 5, 2014. The issue size is US$7 billion and the yield is 2.767%, with
payment dates on August 5 and February 5, beginning August 5, 2009.
http://www.fanniemae.com
HIMALAYAN MIRACLE...
AUCKLAND: Goji Berry Plants (lysium barbarum) are now available to New
Zealand gardeners.
WORLD CANCER DAY...
GENEVA: Today the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) is launching "I
love my healthy active childhood," a campaign to raise awareness about the link
between excess body weight and cancer.
www.uicc.org
WORLD'S LARGEST...
FUKUOKA: QSAI Analysis and Research Center Co. has developed a multi-residue
analysis system that can simultaneously examine 650 different agricultural
chemicals remaining in food, the world's largest-class system in the number of
chemicals tested at one time.
http://www.nouyaku-bunseki.net/e/index.html
TELEGENT ANNOUNCES...
SUNNYVALE: Telegent Systems, the company that makes television mobile,
Wednesday announced that it has shipped more than 20 million mobile TV
receivers since its products became available on the market in mid-2007.
http://www.telegent.com
RESIDUAL PESTICIDE...
FUKUOKA: QSAI Analysis and Research Center Co. has developed a multi-residue
analysis system that can simultaneously examine 650 different agricultural
chemicals remaining in food, the world's largest-class system in the number of
chemicals tested at one time.
http://www.nouyaku-bunseki.net/e/index.html
TELEFONICA BRINGS...
SUNNYVALE: TV programming on their handset, anytime, anywhere
Telegent Systems, the company that makes television mobile with its
high-performance single-chip mobile TV solutions, together with Telefonica
Moviles Peru, Wednesday announced that Telefonica has included the ZTE i766, a
handset with a live TV feature enabled by Telegent, in its handset lineup.
http://www.telegent.com
NEW SPB...
ST. PETERSBURG: Spb Software, the world's top Windows Mobile applications
developer, will offer a sneak preview of the new Spb Mobile Shell 3.0 at Mobile
World Congress 2009.
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com
PRASUGREL RECEIVES...
TOKYO and INDIANAPOLIS: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Cardiovascular
and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee voted 9 to 0 that prasugrel, an
investigational antiplatelet agent, should be approved for the treatment of
patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) managed with an artery-opening
procedure known as percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), Daiichi Sankyo
Company, Limited, (TSE: 4568), and Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) announced
Wednesday.
www.daiichisankyo.com
www.dsus.com
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