SYDNEY--14 May--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
STRATEGIC ALLIANCE...
SAN DIEGO: HUYA Bioscience International, a leader in US/China
pharmaceutical co-development, Thursday announced an agreement with Abbott to
identify and pursue proprietary preclinical and clinical drug candidates that
originate in China.
www.huyabio.com
COAL PLANT...
ST. LOUIS and SYDNEY: Peabody Energy and White Energy Company Limited
Thursday announced they have signed an agreement to pursue development of a
coal upgrading plant that would be sited at a Peabody operation in the Powder
River Basin.
JAPANESE ARTISTS...
AMSTERDAM: In 2009, the Netherlands commemorates 400 years of trade
relations between the Netherlands and Japan. This year, Gallery Delaive will
show the work of three Japanese artists at the Art Amsterdam.
http://www.artamsterdam.nl
http://www.delaive.com
NEW PARTNER...
WASHINGTON: Foley & Lardner LLP announced Wednesday that Robert Huey has
joined the firm as a partner in the Washington, D.C. office, working in the
Transactional & Securities Practice. Prior to joining Foley, Huey was a partner
at Hunton & Williams LLP.
BENCHMARK NOTES...
WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae on Wednesday priced a new issue of US$5 billion
5-year Benchmark Notes which will mature on May 15, 2014.
http://www.fanniemae.com
SUPERMICRO DESIGNS...
SAN JOSE, Calif.: Super Micro Computer, Inc., a leader in
application-optimized, high performance server solutions, announced Wednesday
that it has designed a new, non-blocking architecture for 1U multi-GPU
(graphics processing unit) systems.
www.Supermicro.com
WEBINAR ALERT...
WILMINGTON, Mass.: Analog Devices, Inc. and Digi-Key Corp. Wednesday
announced a
TechOnline/EETimes Webinar on Understanding and Optimizing Sampled Data
Systems (Part II) on : Wednesday, May 20, 2009, @ 9:00 a.m. (Pacific) / 12:00
p.m. (Eastern) at
http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=144340&s=1&k=4E167160502837ABC9DA7E51198A8D2C&partnerref=4PRN
TED WEBSITE...
NEW YORK: The acclaimed 18-minute talks available free on the TED website
will now be accessible beyond the English-speaking world, through the TED Open
Translation Project, which launches Wednesday.
www.ted.com/translation
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of four
securities issues on May 26, 2009 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent
of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
FIRST PERMIT...
CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif. and HONG KONG: EFT BioTech Holdings, Inc.,
announced Wednesday that its 49% owned subsidiary, Excalibur International
Marine Corporation, received the first permit to ferry passengers across the
Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and Mainland China.
www.eftb.us
PORTRAIT CARICATURES...
SOLOTHURN: Over 150 spitting-image portrait caricatures of leading
international politicians, celebrities and stars are available at
nicocartoon.com.
http://www.nicocartoon.com
AVEVA LAUNCHES...
FRANKFURT: Launching at ACHEMA 2009 will be a range of new and upgraded
AVEVA product solutions aimed at tighter technology integration and increased
productivity throughout the entire project lifecycle.
http://www.aveva.com
OFFER EXTENDED...
CALI: Transtel Intermedia S.A. (the "Company") Wednesday announced that it
has extended the expiration of its (i) private offer to exchange, for each
$100,000 of principal amount (excluding accrued but unpaid interest) of its
outstanding 12% Senior Notes due 2016 (the "Existing Notes"), one of its units
(the "New Units"), each New Unit consisting of either $100,000 principal amount
of its unissued Senior Secured Amortizing Step-up Dollar Notes due 2016 (the
"New Dollar Notes") or the Peso-equivalent of $100,000 of principal amount of
its unissued Senior Secured Amortizing Step-up Peso-Denominated Notes (payable
in U.S. dollars) (the "New Peso Notes" and, together with the New Dollar Notes,
the "New Notes") and 100 warrants to purchase shares of its common stock (the
"New Warrants", and such private offer to exchange being the "Exchange Offer"),
and (ii) solicitation of consents to (a) delist the Existing Notes from the
Euro MTF, the alternative market of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, (b) make
certain amendments to documentation relating to (A) the indenture governing the
Existing Notes, (B) the indenture governing the 12-1/2% Senior Secured
Convertible Notes due 2008 (the "12-1/2% Secured Notes"), (C) the warrant
agreement governing the warrants offered by the Company pursuant to the offer
to exchange completed May 17, 2006, (D) the security documents relating to the
Existing Notes and (E) certain other documentation relating to the Existing
Notes (the "Consent Solicitation"), and (c) waive certain events of default
relating to the Company's 12-1/2% Secured Notes and the Existing Notes.
CEO AWARD...
SHANGHAI: RISI, the leading information provider for the global forest
products industry, Wednesday announced that Shandong Chenming's Chairman, Chen
Hongguo has been selected for the second time as the Asian CEO of the Year.
www.risiinfo.com/asiaconf
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