MEDIA RELEASE PR37105
AsiaNet Daily Summary - Press Releases for Monday Nov 16, 2009
SYDNEY, Nov 16 /AsiaNet/ --
HARLEQUIN THAILAND...
TORONTO - Harlequin Enterprises Limited, a global leader in series romance and one of the world's
leading publishers of women's fiction, announced today a new third party licensing deal in Thailand with
Sommjai Books Co., Ltd., a division of Crystal Publishing, one of Thailand's foremost romance publishers.
INTERNET AUDIENCE...
SINGAPORE - comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a report on the
growth of Internet audiences in the Asia-Pacific region based on data from its comScore World Metrix service.
The study found that the Asia-Pacific region has seen significant growth in the past year, increasing 22
percent to nearly half a billion visitors to Internet sites, with most individual countries in the region experiencing
double-digit growth rates.
ATRIAL FIBRILLATION...
ORLANDO, Florida - Results from the RecordAF registry, presented today at the Scientific Sessions of the
American Heart Association, show that in recently diagnosed and actively treated patients with atrial
fibrillation, a rhythm-control strategy provides better short term control of the arrhythmia
versus a rate-control strategy but does not translate into a reduction in the occurrence of clinical events at 1
year. RecordAF also confirmed that these patients suffer from a high rate of clinical events, mainly
cardiovascular
hospitalisations.
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTN and MTNR securities issues on
November 23, 24 and 25 2009 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed
plus accrued interest.
ELI LILLY...
INDIANAPOLIS - Eli Lilly and Company announced today that Steven M. Paul, M.D., executive vice
president, science and technology, and president, Lilly Research Laboratories, will retire from Lilly effective
February 28, 2010.
ACCURAY JAPAN...
SUNNYVALE, California - Accuray Incorporated, a global leader in the field of radiosurgery, announced
today that Juki Hozumi has joined Accuray as General Manager of Japan effective November 1, 2009.
MOBILE HEALTH...
BEIJING - IVT Corporation announced today that it will demonstrate its new mobile health system at GSMA
Mobile Asia Congress in Hong Kong on Nov. 18-19, at Booth F08, and CES 2010 in Las Vegas. This system
allows medical monitoring from home, reducing risk of diseases and assisting with emergency rescue.
NICE SYSTEMS...
RA'ANANA - NICE Systems Ltd., a leading global provider of advanced solutions that enable organizations
to extract Insight from Interactions to drive performance, today announced that it has won the Asia Pacific
Frost & Sullivan Growth Strategy Leadership Award in the Call Monitoring Systems Market.
PTT CHEMICAL...
BANGKOK - Mr. Veerasak Kositpaisal, President & CEO of PTT Chemical Plc., and Mr. Anuchit Boonthong,
Chairman of SMC Corporation Limited, signed the Memorandum of Understanding to initiate a mutual co-
operation on the development and support of Thailand's blow molding industry.
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