SYDNEY--20 Nov--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
IRON ORE...
SINGAPORE - IntercontinentalExchange, Inc., a leading operator of global
regulated futures exchanges, clearing houses and over-the-counter markets,
today announced the introduction of an ICE OTC cleared iron ore contract based
on the well-regarded Platts Iron Ore Index.
www.theice.com
www.platts.com/IM.Platts.Content/MethodologyReferences
MethodologySpecs/ironore.pdf
PLATTS IRON...
SINGAPORE - Platts, the leading global energy and metals information
provider, today announced that its benchmark iron ore assessment IODEX 62% Fe
will be used by the IntercontinentalExchange to clear a Platts-based iron ore
swaps contract, which will be launched on December 2.
www.platts.com
www.mcgraw-hill.com
BEST BRAZIL...
SAO PAULO - The BEST: Brazil Excellence in Securities Transactions road show
will promote the Brazilian financial and capital markets to Asian investors,
from November 23 to 26. The event will visit Hong Kong, Tokyo and Seoul.
www.imperialhotel.co.jp
www.seoul.grand.hyatt.com
www.bmfbovespa.com.br/imprensa
BEST HOTELIER...
NEW YORK and ST. MORITZ - Readers of the international trade magazine
'Hotels' have voted the Swiss/Australian 56 year old, Hans Wiedemann, as
'Independent Hotelier of the World 2009'.
www.badruttspalace.com
ENTREPRENEUR AWARDS...
LYON - Four international personalities have been hounoured with the > Award on November 19th during the World
Entrepreneurship Forum.
www.world-entrepreneurship-forum.com
QUINTIQ CONTRACT...
MELBOURNE - Australia's air navigation services provider, Airservices
Australia, has selected Quintiq as its new workforce planning solution.
www.quintiq.com
CHRYSLER CEO...
CHICAGO - Sergio Marchionne, Chief Executive Officer of Chrysler Group LLC,
will address the Economic Club of Chicago at the group's annual Chicago Auto
Show luncheon meeting on Feb. 11, 2010.
www.chicagoautoshow.com/mediaaccess/index.asp
www.ChicagoAutoShow.com
http://cata.DriveChicago.com
NEOSTEM STRATEGIES...
NEW YORK - NeoStem, Inc., announced today that it has sent the following
letter to its shareholders, discussing the Company's acquisition, on October
30, 2009, of China Biopharmaceuticals Holdings, Inc., an integrated
bio-pharmaceutical company based in the People's Republic of China.
LIGHT READING...
NEW YORK - Light Reading, the leading online publication for the telecom
industry, and Heavy Reading, its prestigious market research division, produced
the Policy Control & Deep Packet Inspection Virtual Tradeshow on November 17,
with 1,216 registrants, 611 attendees, and 9 sponsors.
www.lightreading.com
www.heavyreading.com
http://techweb.com/aboutus
www.unitedbusinessmedia.com
FOOD INGREDIENTS...
FRANKFURT - Speculation over which of the 13 shortlisted ingredients would
take home silverware in this year's Food ingredients Excellence Awards ended
last night as National Starch Food Innovation was awarded the competition's
main prize.
www.ingredientsnetwork.com
FOOD INGREDIENTS...
FRANKFURT - Frankfurt bids farewell to the global food ingredients industry
as Fi Europe 2009 wraps up an impressive edition this afternoon. Fi Europe is
the premiere meeting place for the world's food ingredients industry and once
again the list of attendees was a who's who of the industry's decision
makers.
www.ingredientsnetwork.com.
EDUCATIONAL DATA...
WASHINGTON - At the annual National Science Distributed Learning conference
sponsored by the National Science Foundation, participants learned how JES &
Co.'s Achievement Standards Network framework is being used by Australia's
Curriculum Corporation in an effort to link educational resource data globally.
QUARK PHARMACEUTICALS...
FREMONT, California - Quark Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the leader in siRNA
therapeutics in clinicals, announced today that four of its siRNA R&D platform
based programs have met clinical development milestones; patient enrollment was
completed in three clinical studies and a new IND opened for ocular
neuroprotection drug candidate QPI 1007:
www.quarkpharma.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTN and
FINP securities on November 30, 2009 at a redemption price equal to 100 per
cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
INFOCROSSING CONTRACT...
LEONIA, New Jersey and BANGALORE - Infocrossing, a Wipro Company, today
announced that it has entered into a multi-year agreement to provide
infrastructure services for Cliffs Natural Resources, Inc. Cliffs is an
international mining and natural resources company.
www.wipro.com
www.wiprocorporate.com
www.sec.gov
HABITAT HUMANITY...
SICHUAN - Former U.S. President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jimmy Carter
and his wife, Rosalynn, today arrived in Qionglai City, Sichuan, to take part
in the 26th annual Habitat for Humanity Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project.
www.habitatchina.org
www.habitatchina.org
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION...
LOS ANGELES - Korn/Ferry International, a premier global provider of talent
management solutions, today released results of a five-year analysis focused on
compensation for newly hired executives. The Korn/Ferry Executive Compensation
Index shows declining pay in 2009 for the majority of new senior executives
around the world after reaching a peak in 2008.
www.kornferry.com
www.kornferryinstitute.com
ICON 2009...
BUSAN - ICON 2009, the International Contents Creator's Conference will open
in BEXCO located in Busan, South Korea for 2 days from November 26th to 27th.
www.iconconf.or.kr/english
HSBC BUSINESS...
LONDON - To showcase the strength of their customer relationships and as
part of their new global campaign which focuses on the needs of international
businesses, HSBC have commissioned a series of films that gives four clients
the opportunity to talk about how HSBC Commercial Banking have helped them with
their specific needs of reducing risk, reducing costs, keeping cash flowing and
expansion into new markets.
www.hsbc.com/1/2/business
MENICON ACQUISITION...
NAGOYA, Japan - Menicon Co., Ltd. and David Thomas Contact Lenses Ltd.
announced on November 19 that the two companies reached agreement on November
16, 2009 for Menicon to acquire 100% of the ownership of DTCL.
www.davidthomas.com
www.menicon.com
MFG.COM MANUFACTURERS...
BANGKOK - Representatives from MFG.com, the largest global sourcing
marketplace for manufacturers, are meeting face to face with Thai manufacturers
this week at the Metalex 09 trade show being held here.
www.MFG.com
MURDOCH UNIVERSITY...
SYDNEY - Members of the National Tertiary Education Union at Murdoch
University today commenced further protected industrial action which will, if
necessary, include them withholding student results.
CURTIN UNIVERSITY...
SYDNEY - Staff at Western Australia's Curtin University have voted to step
up industrial action for better pay and conditions putting at risk the release
of year-end results to students including those from Asia.
www.nteu.org.au/bd/curtin#a32310action
MFG.COM MALAYSIA...
BANGKOK - Representatives from MFG.com, the largest global sourcing
marketplace for manufacturers, today are meeting face to face here with many
Malaysia manufacturers at the Metalex 09 trade show.
www.MFG.com
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