Asianet Daily Summary - Press Releases For 2 November, 2009

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AsiaNet Daily Summary - Press Releases for 2 November, 2009


SYDNEY, Nov 2 /AsiaNet/ --


   TRADE FAIR...

   NICOSIA: Following the success of the initial two months of the 'Best of China 2009' on-line exhibition (with

3700+ exhibitors from China and a record of 30,000 unique daily trade visitors), BusinessGlobal.com has just

launched its second event, 'The Euro - China Partnership and Investment On-line International Trade Fair'.


 

   MOBILE POPPY...

   WELLINGTON: Australians overseas can commemorate Remembrance Day on 11 November by

downloading a digital poppy to their mobile phone.


 

   INDONESIAN CHILDREN...

   SYDNEY: Up to six million children under the age of five in Indonesia are expected to develop pneumonia

over the next year, The Confederation of Meningitis Organisations (CoMO) said on Monday, quoting a report

in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization.


 

   CHINESE CHILDREN...

   SYDNEY: 74,000 children under the age of five in China are expected to die from pneumonia over the next

year,  The Confederation of Meningitis Organisations (CoMO) said on Monday, quoting a report in the Bulletin

of the World Health Organization.


 

   PNEUMONIA PROTECTION...

   SYDNEY: Up to 2.7 million children under the age of five in the Philippines are expected to develop

pneumonia over the next year,  The Confederation of Meningitis Organisations (CoMO) said on Monday,

quoting a report in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization.


 

   PNEUMONIA DEATHS...

   SYDNEY: Up to 61 million children under the age of five in South East Asia are expected to develop

pneumonia over the next year, The Confederation of Meningitis Organisations (CoMO) said

on Monday, quoting a report in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization.


 

   GWAVA JOINS...

   MONTREAL: GWAVA Sunday announced its sponsorship of and participation in the Novell Hidden Gems

Tour.


 

   HIV CAMPAIGN...

   PHNOM PENH, Cambodia: As part of an ambitious global effort to test several million people for HIV in

observance of the Testing Millions World AIDS Day 2009 campaign, AHF/Cambodia

CARES will launch its inaugural testing effort during the annual Water Festival, which marks the end of the

rainy season and is the largest festival in the Cambodian calendar.


 

   KYLINTV JOINS...

   NEW YORK: China International TV Corporation (CITVC) and KyLinTV have jointly launched a series of

events in New York to celebrate the fifth anniversary of CITCV's innovative Chinese culture broadcast

package, Great Wall TV, in the United States.




 

   MONTHLY SUMMARY...

   WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae's September 2009 Monthly Summary is now available at


 

   QTRAX WEBCAST...

   NEW YORK: Qtrax, the free and legal music download service, will hold a live interactive webcast for

reporters on Monday, November 2, at 2 p.m. Eastern Time.


 

   RISI ANNOUNCES...

   BRUSSELS: RISI Saturday announced the winners of the 2009 Pulp & Paper International (PPI) Awards

program.


  


 

   ETHERNET EXPO...

   NEW YORK: Ethernet Expo Americas 2009, hosted by Light Reading, the leading online publication for the

telecom industry, and Heavy Reading, its prestigious market research division, has quickly emerged as the

industry's leading Carrier Ethernet event in terms of speaker line up and attendee quality and quantity.



 

   INVESTMENT MISSIONS...

   ATHENS: Invest in Greece, the official Investment Promotion Agency responsible for promoting, attracting

and supporting foreign direct investment into Greece, is organizing and participating in investment missions to

China and Korea from 2 to 6 November 2009, in cooperation with the Economic and Commercial Offices of

the Greek Embassies in Beijing and Seoul.


 

   NEOSTEM ACQUIRES...

   NEW YORK: NeoStem, Inc. Friday announced that the company has completed the acquisition of China

Biopharmaceuticals Holdings, Inc., a leading Chinese pharmaceutical company.


 

   FANNIE MAE...

   WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of five securities issues amounting to a

total of US$455 million on Nov 9 and 10, 2009 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal

amount redeemed plus accrued interest.


 

   ALDAR COMPLETES...

   ABU DHABI: Aldar Properties, Abu Dhabi's leading property development, management and investment

company, Friday announced the completion of the external structure of Ferrari World Abu Dhabi.


 

   ART AWARD

   STOCKHOLM: Through its frequent collaborations with cutting-edge artists, designers and photographers,

ABSOLUT VODKA is a proud supporter of the arts.



 

   GATSBY ORGANISES...

   OSAKA: For the second year running, GATSBY is organizing the Styling Dance Contest, spanning across

seven countries - Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia and Taiwan, to

search for the best student dancer in Asia.


 

   DULUTH CONFIRMS...

   TORONTO: Duluth Metals Limited Friday confirmed 12 million Indicated ounces and 6 million Inferred

ounces of contained platinum, palladium and gold (Total Precious Metal or TPM) in the Nokomis Deposit as

reported by Scott Wilson RPA's latest NI 43-101 Resource Estimate.


 

   ENERSYS ANNOUNCES...

   READING, Pa.: EnerSys the world's largest manufacturer, marketer and distributor of industrial batteries

announced Friday that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the industrial battery businesses of the

Swiss company Accu Holding AG.


 

   HYPERTENSION MANAGEMENT...

   TAIPEI: According to the theme of World Hypertension Congress 2009 in Beijing: from bench to bedside and

community, Microlife is promoting a total solution for hypertension management. This solution entails a series

of innovative professional blood pressure measurement devices designed for risk factor screening, diagnosis,

and treatment follow-up.

 

   ALLIED PRESENTS...

   PEMBROKE: Allied World Assurance Company, Ltd, a member company of Allied World Assurance

Company Holdings, Ltd, Friday announced that Benjamin Howell, Vice President, Professional

Liability, Asia, will be presenting at the Courses & Seminars Limited Financial Institutions Seminar, to be held

on 5 November, 2009 in Hong Kong.

 

   HEALTH STRATEGY...

   HANOI: Today's most vulnerable human being is a woman of child-bearing age, living in a poor, rural

community threatened by climate change, an international conference in Hanoi has concluded. Hundreds of

health, development and human rights experts and officials at the meeting last week called for a new

global health strategy.


 

   AEROCONSEIL CEO...

   BLAGNAC: Alain Carcass agrès, CEO of Aeroconseil, is one of the representatives accompanying Christine

Lagarde, Minister of the Economy, Industry and Employment, to China from the 28th to the

30th October, 2009, in order to meet the most senior officials in the country.


 

   JETBRAINS RELEASES...

   PRAGUE: JetBrains, creators of intelligent, productivity-enhancing development tools, Friday announced the

release of YouTrack 1.0, the company's brand new bug and issue tracking system.








 

   ROTARY PRESIDENT...

   EVANSTON, Ill.: Kalyan Banerjee, a businessman from Gujarat, India, will become president of Rotary

International www.rotary.org -- one of the largest humanitarian service organizations in the world -- on 1 July

2011.



 

   CONDOMINIUM DEVELOPMENT...

   NEW YORK: Ideally located in New York City's historic Greenwich Village, Devonshire House, an

architecturally distinctive pre-war building located at 28 East 10th Street, has been transformed into a one-of-

a-kind condominium development.


 


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   ARTNET AUCTIONS...

   NEW YORK and BERLIN: artnet Auctions is now featuring the Modern + Contemporary Sale, an online

auction featuring 70 artworks by 50 artists representing some of the most important artistic movements from

the 20th century to the present.





 

   TELNIC WINS...

  

PHILADELPHIA, PA: Telnic Limited, the Registry Operator for the new communications-focused .tel top

level domain (TLD), Thursday accepted a Models of Excellence award at Data Content '09.



 

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