SYDNEY--8 Nov--AsiaNet/ InfoQuest
HEALTH 2.0...
NEW DELHI, India: Health 2.0 India [http://www.health2con.com/india ] will
take place in New Delhi, India on January 30, 2012 at The Leela Kempinski
Gurgaon.
http://www.cimglobal.net/
http://bit.ly/v95dDy
NEW FUNCTIONALITY...
MADISON, Wis.: Collaboration with clinical research sites has resulted in a
valuable quarterly release of the Allegro(R) CTMS@Site(TM ) system from Forte
Research Systems, Inc. that includes more key functionality to improve
operations at sites.
http://www.forteresearch.com/
http://bit.ly/twPAry
STRONG COMMITMENT...
BEIJING: Fred P. Hochberg, the chairman and president of the Export-Import
Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank), is leading a business development
mission to China November 5 - 10.
http://www.exim.gov/
http://bit.ly/uhi47r
DIGITAL RECORDING SYSTEM...
TOKYO: Graphin Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Techno Horizon Holdings Co., Ltd.,
announced on November 7 that it will put on sale next spring a 4K-compatible
uncompressed digital recording system, dubbed "MACH-REC," which uses an
exchangeable recording medium.
http://www.g-in.co.jp/english/index.html
http://bit.ly/sUs1Z9
ADDITIONAL SECURITY...
SYDNEY, Australia: CMC Markets has today announced the implementation of a
fully segregated client money model, including client margins, in Australia and
New Zealand.
http://bit.ly/v4nujg
CONTROL PROGRAMMES...
GENEVA and NEW DELHI: A comprehensive four-year project including over
10,000 patients in clinical and pharmacovigilance studies for diagnosis and
treatment of visceral leishmaniasis (VL, also known as kala-azar) in India and
Bangladesh was launched by an international consortium formed last month to
support control and elimination strategies in both countries, where the
concentration of disease burden is among the world's highest.
http://www.dndi.org/
http://www.who.int/tdr
http://www.oneworldhealth.org/
http://bit.ly/vJ9icf
POLICY MANAGER...
AHMEDABAD, India: Elitecore Technologies, the leading provider of telecom
software (OSS/BSS) solutions, announced the release of NetVertex Version 6.0
Policy management.
http://www.elitecore.com/telecompractices/multi-dimensional-policy.html
http://bit.ly/tLZ0lm
NEW RKW PLANT...
FRANKENTHAL, Germany and CAIRO: The RKW Group has started production at its
first plant in Egypt. The company built a totally new manufacturing facility in
Cairo in less than 16 months.
http://bit.ly/v7tNZV
INVESTOR WEBCASTS...
NEW YORK: BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP) ("BGC Partners," "BGC," or "the
Company"), a leading global brokerage company primarily servicing the wholesale
financial markets, today announced two upcoming webcasts.
http://www.bgcpartners.com/ir
http://bit.ly/sHuAnz
POKER TOURNAMENT...
LONDON: PokerStars.com will attempt to hold the world's largest poker
tournament on December 4, by bringing more than 150,000 players together to
play in an online poker game as part of the PokerStars 10th Anniversary
Celebration [http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/promotions/10th-anniversary ], the
company announced.
http://www.pokerstars.co.uk/
http://www.pokerstars.com/ten
http://bit.ly/rZPPfK
AWARD CEREMONY...
LONDON: Big efforts bring great results. Ron Arad and Javier Mariscal
invited the winner of the 4th Edition of the international competition, Jump
the Gap, Michael Warykiewicz, to join them in the mad Gala Ceremony created by
Roca for the Award Ceremony, which brought together VIP's from the media and
the design and architecture world. That was what they were cooking.
http://www.whatarewecooking.net/
http://www.jumpthegap.net/
http://www.roca.com/
http://www.rocalondongallery.com/
http://www.bcd.es/
http://bit.ly/uPTR7s
GDAY USA...
SYDNEY: The Australian screen industry is extending its reach into the USA,
following a new International Engagement Program announced by Australias screen
excellence body, the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA).
http://www.aacta.org/
http://bit.ly/s2c8eR
PREMATURE BIRTHS...
NEW DELHI and SEATTLE: Thirteen million babies are born prematurely every
year, but new funding announced today will allow for pioneering research into
the causes of preterm births and the development of solutions so they can be
prevented.
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/
http://www.gapps.org/healthybirth
http://www.seattlechildrens.org/
http://bit.ly/uy0dzu
HOLDING PATTERN...
WASHINGTON: Americans continue to be pessimistic about home prices, the
economy, and personal finances, according to results from Fannie Mae's October
National Housing Survey.
http://bit.ly/tilZvV
KOREAN OFFICE...
ST. PAUL, Minn.: CHS Inc. (NASDAQ: CHSCP), the nation's leading cooperative,
today announced it has opened an office in Seoul, South Korea, intended to
strengthen business with that nation's growing customer base.
http://www.chsinc.com/
http://bit.ly/tQihRr
PHARMACEUTICAL LEADERSHIP SUMMIT...
MAHARASTRA, Mumbai: The much awaited & talked about Leadership event of the
year will be staged in Mumbai on 10th December 2011 at Hotel Lalit with the
theme "Generation Next Indian Pharma Leaders - Billionaire Minds & Drivers for
Growth".
http://www.pharmaleaders.co.in/
http://bit.ly/vuR4vf
OFFICE RELOCATION...
ST. LOUIS: Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) today announced the relocation of the
Office of the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, headed by
Eric Ford, to Brisbane, Australia.
http://bit.ly/tWjlNi
TUNGSTEN PROJECT...
MONTREAL, Quebec, Candana: Colt Resources Inc. ("Colt" or the "Company")
(TSXV: GTP) (FRA: P01) (OTCQX: COLTF) is pleased to announce details of an
initial resource estimate for its 100% owned Tabuaco (Sao Pedro das Aguias)
tungsten project, located in the Company's wholly owned Armamar Meda
concession in northern Portugal.
http://www.renmarkfinancial.com/
http://www.sedar.com/
http://bit.ly/tz7JdW
FOOTBALL KITS...
LONDON: Global sportlifestyle brand PUMA(R) has revealed an inspiring and
contemporary collaboration, launching technical football kits for PUMA's 10
partnered African National football teams.
http://www.pumafootball.com/
http://vision.puma.com/
http://www.designmuseum.org/
http://bit.ly/s7JnzB
RECORD ATTENDANCE...
BOSTON: Eagle Investment Systems LLC, a leading provider of financial
services technology and a subsidiary of BNY Mellon, has commenced its largest
ever client conference being held at the Boca Raton Resort & Club in Boca
Raton, FL from November 6 - 9.
http://www.eagleinvsys.com/
http://www.bnymellon.com/
http://bit.ly/tZWgyY
SALE MANAGEMENT...
BOSTON: Hilco Streambank [http://www.hilcostreambank.com ] has been chosen
by the Australian receiver KordaMentha [http://www.kordamentha.com ] to market
and sell the intellectual property assets of RPO Pty. Ltd., [http://www.rpo.biz
] an Australia based developer of new touch screen technology for the consumer
electronics market.
http://www.streambankllc.com/
http://bit.ly/tEMeQr
CUSTOMER DEMAND...
SUNNYVALE, Calif. and TOOWONG, BRISBANE, Australia: Centrify Corporation,
the leading provider of security and compliance solutions that centrally
control, secure and audit access to cross-platform systems and applications
using Active Directory, today announced its expansion into the Asia Pacific
Region (APAC) with its new office in Brisbane, Australia.
http://www.auscert.org.au/
http://www.centrify.com/
http://bit.ly/vbq9sT
OCR SPEED...
MILPITAS, Calif.: ABBYY(R), a leading provider of document recognition, data
capture and linguistic technologies and services, today announced ABBYY
FineReader 11, an intelligent OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software
application for efficient document scanning and conversion.
http://finereader.abbyy.com/
http://www.abbyy.com/
http://bit.ly/tKjGCk
BEAUTY TRADE SHOW...
LOS ANGELES: Today, NYX Cosmetics announces their presence at COSMOPROF Asia
Hong Kong the leading business-to-business beauty trade show in the Asia
Pacific region.
http://www.nyxcosmetics.com/
http://bit.ly/tbrwuM
68 DAYS OF CHANGE...
HONG KONG: Laboratoires Dom AVMM (Suisse) Inc (Lab Dom) -- a world-leading
regenerative medicine and cellular therapy company specialising in precursor
stem cell, placental extract, organ-specific and botanical cell products -- is
launching its innovative '68 Days of Change' consumer cellular therapy
challenge at Hong Kong's 'Cosmoprof Asia 2011' aesthetic exhibition being held
from 9-11 November 2011.
http://www.changewithlabdom.com/
http://www.labdom.com/
http://bit.ly/s95Dmg
DISTANCE LEARNING...
OXFORD, England: The Oxford College of Marketing
[http://www.oxfordcollegeofmarketing.com/index.html ] is the premier supplier
of distance learning for aspiring students in Malaysia who are seeking top
international marketing qualifications.
http://qm.cim.co.uk/
http://www.oxlearn.com/
http://bit.ly/ucEI86
BUSINESS EXCELLENCE AWARD...
HONG KONG: Goodman today announced that it has been awarded the Westpac
Business Excellence Award for large companies at the AustCham Westpac
Australia-China Business Awards 2011.
http://www.goodman.com/
http://bit.ly/ueyIp9
PERFECT COUPLE...
BERLIN and TOKYO: Germany's automotive industry is driving sales of
industrial robots to new highs. Robotic industry experts expect turnover to
increase by over 40 percent in 2011 in some segments, breaking revenue records.
http://bit.ly/uAIdy2
SECURITY CONTRIBUTION AWARD...
SHENZHEN, China: Tyco Security, a world leader in security products and
services is awarded the "Global Security Contribution Award" by the world's
largest professional security organizations - China Public Security Expo (CPSE)
and Global Security Alliance.
http://www.tyco.com/
http://bit.ly/tbloop
3RD PLACE...
LONDON: A new study ranks Australia 3rd and New Zealand 4th out of 110
countries in a worldwide assessment of wealth and quality of life. Norway and
Denmark lead the rankings.
http://www.prosperity.com/
http://bit.ly/sIXP0N
IPAD FLIGHT...
AUCKLAND, New Zealand: Low fares leader Jetstar will today rollout iPads on
board, the first airline in the world to offer tailored technology for the
device, revolutionising the in-flight entertainment experience for its
customers.
http://bit.ly/sED7nc
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