SYDNEY--17 Aug--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
HOTEL VALUE...
SHANGHAI: "Was your hotel worth the money?" This was the question
investigated by hotel.info, the free online hotel reservation service for over
210,000 hotels worldwide. www.hotel.info is analysing the over 1 million hotel
ratings awarded by hotel.info booking customers from around the world in terms
of the price performance of 3 and 4 star hotels.
www.hotel.info
BOLT WINS...
BERLIN: Three-time Jamaican Olympic gold medalist and PUMA athlete Usain
'Lightning' Bolt shattered his own world record and delivered a stunning first
place finish in the 100m on Sunday night at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin,
cementing his title as the "Fastest Man in the World".
DESIGN COMPETITION...
NEW YORK: GetAFreelancer, the world's top freelance jobs micro-outsourcing
marketplace, Monday announced a global design competition to develop the
website's new logo.
CROWN ANNOUNCES...
PHNOM PENH: The Crown Worldwide Group, a worldwide leader of global
mobility, moving services, relocation services, information management, art
shipping and logistics services, Monday announced the opening of the second
school funded by Crown, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
WATERFALL BRIDGE...
HORSTEL: OASE Living Water, the leading worldwide premium supplier for water
gardens, fountain technology and lake management, has converted the 1.4
kilometre Banpo vehicle bridge in Seoul, South Korea, into the world's longest
waterfall bridge.
CRICKET MATCH...
INTERLAKEN: Jungfrau Railways staged a crazy event on the Jungfraujoch on 15
August: a friendly cricket match at 3454 metres above sea level with legendary
players from India and Great Britain.
GENERAL DYNAMICS...
JURUDONG, Brunei: General Dynamics United Kingdom Limited has been selected
for the next stage of Brunei's competition to provide a Joint Operations Centre
for the Royal Brunei Armed Forces.
www.generaldynamics.uk.com
www.gd.com
AUSTRALIA'S MASTERCHEF...
SYDNEY: There's no doubt that Julie Goodwin is one of Australia's greatest
cooks. She recently won MasterChef Australia, Channel 10's hit actuality show.
Goodwin, 38, runs an IT company with her husband, Michael. The Goodwins, who
live in New South Wales, hired ActionCOACH Business Coach Marcus Kroek to help
their business acquire more success.
SOCIAL NETWORKING...
SYDNEY: comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, Friday
released a study on social networking usage in Australia, which found that more
than 70 percent of Internet users in Australia visited a social networking site
in June, up 29 percent from the previous year.
www.comscore.com
http://twitter.com/comScore
http://twitter.com/gfulgoni
http://twitter.com/m_abraham
SEMINCONDUCTOR INDUSTRY...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has developed itself into an epicenter for
semiconductor manufacturing for the last 30 years. In fast tracking up the
value chain of Electrical and Electronics (E&E) industry, Malaysia has been
involving in research, design and development.
www.might.org.my
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of 13
securities issues on Aug 24, 25 and 26, 2009 at a redemption price equal to
100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
TELCAMP.TEL INITIATIVE...
TORONTO: The Royal Ontario Museum, (ROM) will debut TelCamp 1 Toronto,
Canada's first TelCamp. This grassroots initiative is designed to showcase the
attributes of the .tel domain and is the first to employ the newly created
TelCamp.tel site which provides automated registration and attendee lists,
submissions for agenda topics and further .tel resources.
http://www.telcamp.tel
SCIENCE WEEK...
CANBERRA: Australians will have the opportunity to send text-like messages
to potential intelligent life beyond Earth thanks to an initiative to be
launched Friday to mark National Science Week.
www.scienceweek.gov.au
OPERATION INFRA...
SYDNEY: Crime Stoppers International (CSI) had set up a Global
Communications hub in Europe headed by a former Scotland Yard Detective as well
as a Detective Senior Sergeant from Australian Police to assist in the global
coordination of Operation INFRA (International Fugitive Round Up and Arrest).
CSI spearheaded this operation on behalf of its affiliated programs world wide,
but in conjunction with its Law Enforcement partners these being Interpol, and
the U.S. Marshal Service as well as its law enforcement agencies across the
globe in which Crime Stoppers operates.
www.csiworld.org
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