SYDNEY--22 Jul--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
SALIM GROUP...
MELBOURNE - A nominee of the Salim Group has taken a strategic stake in
Bioeffectives therapeutics maker, Solagran (ASX: SLA) that will raise proceeds
of approximately $5.54 million.
www.solagran.com
R-TECH UENO STUDY...
TOKYO - R-Tech Ueno, Ltd. announced on July 17 that as a phase 1 clinical
study on the new compound RK-023 that is being developed by our company as a
therapeutic drug of androgenetic alopecia (male pattern baldness; see the note
below) has been completed.
JOHAL DAIRIES...
WOLVERHAMPTON - Johal Dairies were yesterday refused permission to appeal
against a High Court judgment which found that they had paid an illegal
immigrant GBP40,000 to steal confidential customer information from rival dairy
supplier J.N.Dairies.
http://www.JNDairies.com
THAI GIFTS...
BANGKOK - Gifts and home decorative industries from Thailand are confident
in their competitive edges. The country is determined to excel in the global
marketplace through quality, design and integrity. These reputable features
will be reaffirmed at Asia's most prominent design exhibitions - Bangkok
International Gift Fair and Bangkok International Houseware Fair (BIG+BIH)
during 13-18 October 2009.
www.bigandbih.com
HUDSON HIGHLAND GROUP...
NEW YORK - Hudson Highland Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: HHGP), one of the world's
leading providers of permanent recruitment, contract professionals and talent
management solutions, announced today that it has rescheduled its second
quarter financial results call to Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. E.T.
from its previously announced Thursday, July 30, 2009 9:00 a.m. E.T. The
company's second quarter financial results will cover the period ended June 30,
2009 after the market closes on Wednesday, July 29, 2009.
www.hudson.com
AIRFARES V AUSTRALIA...
SYDNEY - V Australia continues to shake up the market with the introduction
of super cheap one-way tickets between Los Angeles - Sydney and Brisbane
offering more flexibility for travelers, which are on sale now. While one-way
fares are not new to the arena, V Australia is the first airline to offer
one-way fares across ALL of its fare brackets, including its lowest lead-in
fares, offering one-way tickets from just $359*, approximately 76% lower than
the lowest one-way fare currently offered by competitor airlines.
www.vaustralia.com.au
ALLOT GLOBAL...
BOSTON - Allot Communications Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALLT), a leader in IP service
optimization and revenue generation solutions based on deep packet inspection
(DPI), announced today that its inaugural Global Mobile Broadband Traffic
Report (http:/ www.allot.com/globalmobilebroadbandreport.asp ) (GMBT) indicates
that worldwide mobile data bandwidth usage has increased significantly by
approximately 30% during the second quarter of 2009. Asia leads the growth with
36%; Europe posted 28% growth and the Americas 25%. The Allot GMBT Report,
which tracks global IP application usage and growth, collected data from
leading mobile operators worldwide with a combined user base of more than 150
million subscribers.
http://www.allot.com
CLINICAL RESEARCH SAFETY...
WASHINGTON - Clinical trials conducted in the developing world meet the
same safety, ethical and quality standards as those conducted in the developed
world. That is the conclusion of a major report released today by the
Association of Clinical Research Organizations (ACRO). The report, commissioned
against a backdrop of declining participation rates in the United States and
recent criticism of international research by several academic journals, was
developed for ACRO by VOI Consulting, Inc, a Ft. Lauderdale-based life sciences
advisory and publishing company.
www.acrohealth.org
SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS...
WICHITA, Kan.- Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPR) will release
its second quarter 2009 financial results at 6:30 a.m. Central time on
Thursday, July 30.
http://www.spiritaero.com
HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS...
COPENHAGEN - This week, thousands of people from across the globe will
arrive in the Danish capital Copenhagen to take part in the most important
international event for homosexual, bi-sexual and transgender men and women -
World Outgames 2009. On the agenda is one of the largest and most important
conferences on homosexual rights the world has ever seen.
http://www.visitcopenhagen.com/factsheetWOG
LTE BASEBAND PROCESSOR...
TOKYO - Altair Semiconductor, a 4G chip company developing the world's most
advanced mobile semiconductors for handheld devices, will be conducting a
demonstration of it's FourGee(TM)-3100 LTE baseband chip at the Wireless Japan
conference in Tokyo, Japan on July 22, 2009. The demonstration will feature a
video streaming application over an LTE link, and include the actual chip logic
and protocol stack implemented on an FPGA platform.
www.altair-semi.com
UNIRISX, LLC APPOINTS...
PHILADELPHIA and HONG KONG - UniRisX, LLC, the leading SaaS provider of
global insurance services, today announced the appointment of David Piesse as
Chairman of Asia Pacific Operations. In his new role, Mr. Piesse will be
responsible for leading the global on-demand insurance provider's Asia Pacific
customer expansion efforts from the organization's newly established Hong Kong
office.
www.unirisx.com
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