SYDNEY--13 Jul--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
ALLIANCE MEMBERSHIP...
HSINCHU, Taiwan: MediaTek Inc., a leading fabless semiconductor company for
wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions, today announces it
has joined the Open Handset Alliance.
http://www.mediatek.com
http://bit.ly/c4YxlO
US FDA MEETING...
MELBOURNE, Australia: Australian regenerative medicine company, Mesoblast
Limited (ASX:MSB; ADR:MBLTY), today announced that based on positive results
from its bone marrow transplant clinical trial, conducted at the University of
Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, a formal meeting has been scheduled with the
United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to discuss a proposed Phase 3
clinical trial program.
www.mesoblast.com
http://bit.ly/9bWoyN
THINK TANK FUNDING...
OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada: The Think Tank Initiative has selected 28 think
tanks, or independent policy research institutions, in Latin America and South
Asia to receive a total of US$35 million to strengthen their roles as
influential players in national policymaking.
www.idrc.ca/thinktank
http://bit.ly/cgotwp
NEW LEASES...
SYDNEY, Australia: Hong Kong Aviation Capital ("HKAC"), a leading investor
in the global aviation sector, today announced new leases of three (3) new
Airbus 320 aircraft to IndiGo Airlines of India. The leases will start on
delivery of the aircraft new from Airbus to IndiGo in 2011. In addition, HKAC
announced the agreement by IndiGo to extend the leases of four (4) existing
A320 aircraft.
www.hongkongaviation.com
http://en.hnagroup.com
www.braviacapital.com
http://bit.ly/dghM7P
ACQUISITION FINANCE...
SANTA ROSA, Calif.: Cathaya Capital, L.P. is investing US$11 million in ZAP
(OTC Bulletin Board: ZAAP) to finance the 51 percent majority interest
acquisition of Zhejiang Jonway Automobile Co. Ltd. upon final closing of the
transaction.
http://bit.ly/9x2jXu
MD REJOINS...
GREENWICH, Conn.: Starwood Capital Group, a leading global private equity
firm focused on real estate and energy infrastructure, announced today that
Sundaram V. Rajagopal is rejoining the firm as Managing Director, India and
Southeast Asia, Starwood Capital India Advisors Private Limited.
http://bit.ly/dj1Voi
SALES GROWTH...
BEIJING: The sales presentation for June released by Evergrande Real Estate
in Hong Kong on June 12th showed that in spite of the market downturn, the
Company continued to keep a monthly growth on performance in June, and achieved
sales growth both on link relative ratio and year-to-year growth.
http://bit.ly/bNTJvr
MIGRATION PROJECT...
WASHINGTON: ATERAS and Alchemy Solutions today announced that the companies'
legacy migration and modernization technologies have been selected by Unify for
an important migration project (20+ business critical applications) with a
large State agency.
www.ateras.com
http://bit.ly/d2KXc1
SECURITIES REDEMPTION...
WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae (OTC Bulletin Board: FNMA) will redeem the principal
amounts indicated for the following securities issues on the redemption dates
indicated below at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal
amount redeemed, plus accrued interest thereon to the date of redemption.
http://www.fanniemae.com
http://bit.ly/a0wjzs
PRODUCTIVE EXPERIENCE...
AMSTERDAM: According to leading global business media company UBM
International Media, Argentina promises to deliver a productive experience for
CPhI South America 2010, the company's world leading pharmaceutical ingredients
and services event.
http://www.ubm.com
http://www.cphi-sa.com
http://bit.ly/aiRIxu
FIRE SAFETY...
HONG KONG: Hong Kong Chubb Fire Safety has been awarded a $23.4 million
contract from Cathay Pacific Services Limited for the design, supply,
installation, testing and commissioning of an integrated fire system at the
Chek Lap Kok Airport.
http://www.utcfireandsecurity.com
http://bit.ly/9jDPQq
ELECTROPLATING SYSTEM...
SAN JOSE, Calif.: Novellus Systems (Nasdaq: NVLS) today introduced the SABRE
3D electroplating system for the rapidly-growing advanced wafer-level packaging
(WLP) market.
www.novellustechnews.com
http://bit.ly/aAhlnX
PHILIPPINE MEDICINES...
ROCKVILLE, Md.: In an effort that will contribute to raising the quality of
medicines in the Philippines and surrounding regions, the Laboratory Services
Division (LSD) of the Philippine Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has
attained the internationally recognized accreditation for testing and
calibration laboratories, International Organization for
Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO IEC) 17025:2005.
http://www.usp.org
http://bit.ly/cqrko7
SUPPLIER AWARD...
BELOIT, Wis.: Sheffield Bio-Science, a leading global pharmaceutical
supplier of superior quality cell nutrition and excipient products for the
biotech and pharmaceutical markets, has been awarded the distinguished 2010
Lilly Global Supplier Award.
http://bit.ly/bIKRlt
JV ACQUISITION...
CHICAGO: Ryerson Holding Corporation ("Ryerson"), a leading distributor and
processor of metals in North America, today announced that via its subsidiaries
it has acquired Van Shung Chong Holdings' ("VSC") 20 percent stake in Ryerson
China Limited, a joint venture between Ryerson and VSC formed in 2006.
www.platinumequity.com
http://bit.ly/9CgwPC
NEW HIRE...
BOSTON: RISI, the leading information provider for the global forest
products industry, today announced the hiring of Ray Barbee as Senior Vice
President and General Manager of its Wood Products, Timber and Biomass business
areas.
http://www.risi.com
http://bit.ly/cW65rg
3G CONFERENCE PHONE...
UMEA, Sweden: Konftel, Europe's leading and fastest growing manufacturer of
conference phones, today announced the new Konftel 300M, the world's first 3G
conference phone for businesses.
http://www.konftel.com
http://bit.ly/bWP3Cz
AMENDMENTS PASSED...
BERLIN: Amendments to the photovoltaic feed-in tariffs of Germany's
Renewable Energies Act (EEG) were passed today, marking a shift towards the
rooftop segment.
http://bit.ly/dyXXlP
PRODUCT RELEASE...
LAKE MARY, Fla.: FARO Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: FARO), the world's leading
provider of portable 3D measurement and imaging solutions, announced today the
release of the world's most accurate break resistant spherically mounted
retroreflector (SMR) as a part of their newly expanded line of laser tracker
targets.
http://bit.ly/cl3NOC
NEW VP...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.: Telegent Systems, the company that makes television
mobile, today announced that Ron Kao has joined Telegent as vice president of
Asia Pacific.
www.telegent.com
http://bit.ly/cbN6qo
SAP CERTIFICATION...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.: Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) Savi Technology today
announced its SmartChain(R) (http:/ www.savi.com/products/software/ ) Consignment
Management Application (CMA) software platform version 6.0 achieved SAP
certification ( http://www.sap.com/ecosystem/customers
directories/searchpartner.epx) as powered by the SAP NetWeaver(R) technology
platform(1).
www.savi.com
http://bit.ly/d0azDM
AUTHORING TOOL...
BRISTOL, UK: Digital TV software specialist, Ocean Blue Software, has
released its Triton(TM) MHEG-5 and CI Plus Authoring Tool as an open source and
royalty-free product for application authors and developers.
http://www.oceanbluesoftware.co.uk/triton.shtml
http://www.oceanbluesoftware.com
http://bit.ly/bCyGLJ
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