SYDNEY--6 Mar--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
BIBLIOMETRICS CONFERENCE...
SYDNEY - The Healthcare and Science business of Thomson Reuters today
announced an upcoming international bibliometrics conference on research
evaluation, jointly organised with The University of Queensland (UQ) in
Brisbane from April 16-17. The conference will address issues and challenges of
metrics-based research evaluation.
http://www.uq.edu.au/
HIGHGATE HOTELS...
MIAMI - Highgate Hotels, manager and/or owner of 34 hotels throughout the
United States, Canada, Europe and the Cayman Islands, and AboutAnywhere.com,
operator of the world's only free online distribution network for the hotel
industry, have partnered for commission-free online distribution. This
strategic partnership will grant the hotels the Company manages 100% of the
revenue generated by consumer bookings directed to the hotels' websites via
AboutAnywhere.com.
www.AboutAnywhere.com
WORLD GAMES 2009...
KAOHSIUNG - The Kaohsiung City Government has joined hands with the
Kaohsiung Organizing Committee of the World Games 2009 to make an international
announcement for the upcoming event at the Park Hyatt Tokyo hotel in Shinjuku.
Mayor Chen Chu travelled on Thursday March 5th from the International harbor
city in the south of Taiwan, to present a personal letter of invitation to the
people of Japan.
ASTEA INTERNATIONAL...
HORSHAM, Pa.- Astea International Inc. (Nasdaq: ATEA), the leader in service
lifecycle management and mobility solutions, announces the establishment of
Astea International Japan Inc., a new subsidiary in Tokyo, Japan. With
resources in Tokyo, the company is providing sales, professional services and
customer support to leading service organizations in the region. The Japanese
subsidiary joins the Company's existing international
sales and service locations in the United Kingdom, Holland, and Australia.
www.astea.com.
LOAC SYSTEM...
SAN FRANCISCO - Hai Kang Life Corporation Limited (HKLife) announced its
patented field-assisted LOAC (Lab-on-a-Chip) system, the EFADchip technology at
the Cambridge Healthtech Institute's 16th International Molecular Medicine
Tri-Conference held in San Francisco through 25-27 February 2009. This forum
has been at the forefront for showcasing the growth, the challenges and the
opportunities in molecular medicine, a market poised to revolutionize
healthcare as we know it today.
http://www.haikanglife.com
ASIA PACIFIC AEROSPACE...
SINGAPORE - Frost & Sullivan today hosted the prestigious 2009 Frost &
Sullivan Asia Pacific Aerospace and Defense awards that showcased the regions
best players. In its second consecutive year, the Aerospace & Defense Awards
honored 27 companies across nine award categories. The banquet saw about
180 senior industry-members, C-suite executives and government officials at a
glamorous evening gala.
http://www.frost.com
SPIRIT CHIEF EXECUTIVE...
WICHITA, Kan. - Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. (NYSE: SPR) President and Chief
Executive Officer Jeff Turner will speak at the J.P. Morgan Aviation &
Transportation Conference in New York, N.Y., at approximately 10:45 a.m.
Eastern time on Tuesday, March 10.
http://www.spiritaero.com
ADVEQ EXPANDS...
ZURICH - Adveq, a leading independent private equity fund of funds
investment manager with offices in Beijing, New York, Frankfurt and Zurich,
today announced the appointment of Darren Wong as Executive Director and the
promotion of Tim Creed to Executive Director.
ADVEQ SAS 70...
ZURICH - Adveq, a leading independent private equity fund of funds
investment manager with offices in Beijing, New York, Frankfurt and Zurich,
today announced that the firm has passed its SAS 70 certification audit as of
December 31, 2008.
FORD FIESTA...
SANYA - Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) today continued to build on its global
small car strategy, and the momentum surrounding the worldwide rollout of the
new Ford Fiesta, with its official China market launch on the southern resort
island of Hainan.
www.ford.com.cn
RISI ANNOUNCES...
BRUSSELS - RISI today announced that several new speakers have been added to
the conference programs of its industry-leading events in Europe and Asia.
Three new speakers will join the program of RISI's 11th European Pulp and Paper
Outlook Conference to be held in Berlin, Germany on March 29-31, 2009.
www.risiinfo.com
PYRAMID RESEARCH...
CAMBRIDGE, MA.- As market penetration rates for mobile services continue to
soar in emerging markets, advertisers are expected to dramatically increase
their spending on "third-screen" ad campaigns targeted specifically to users of
mobile data services, providing a potentially huge new revenue stream for
operators of mobile networks, according to the latest report by Pyramid
Research, the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network.
www.lightreading.com
www.pyr.com
DA VINCI'S SELF-PORTRAIT...
MILAN - During the television program Ulysses, aired in Italy on Saturday,
the 28th of February, the well-known scientific divulgator Piero Angela stated
that a secret drawing, a youthful self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, had
just been discovered. Actually, the Leonardo3 ( http:/ www.leonardo3.net)
research center in Milan, Italy, had published its own edition of the Codex of
Flight (book & interactive software) in the October of 2007: this work
included the digital restoration of page 10, revealing the underlying portrait.
The same center had also created a 3D reconstruction of the image.
http://www.leonardo3.net
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