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AsiaNet Daily Summary - Press Releases for Tuesday 10, 2009
SYDNEY, Nov. 10 /AsiaNet/ --
LOGWIN ANNOUNCES...
HONG KONG: Logwin, one of the world's leading providers of global transportation and freight forwarding
services, Tuesday announced that a number of significant milestones have been achieved in the Far East
region since the company rebranded from its former name of Birkart Globistics one year ago.
STANBROKE WINS...
MELBOURNE: An Australian privately owned cattle company which exports its product to Asia, the Middle
East and Europe, has won the most keenly contested Export Award in the agribusiness sector. Stanbroke,
privately owned by the Menegazzo family and now considered the largest vertically integrated beef business in
the world, was awarded the 2009 NAB Agricultural Award for Excellence (Export), at a gala event in
Melbourne earlier this month.
MUSIC DISTRIBUTION...
MIAMI: SoBe Entertainment and The Orchard have signed an International Music Distribution agreement.
The agreement will allow The Orchard to digitally distribute SoBe Recording Artist's music internationally:
Brooke Hogan, Jah Cure, Urban Mystic, Stack$ and newly signed Phyllisia.
AUSTRALIAN OFFICE...
SYDNEY: OpenSymmetry, a worldwide leader in outsourced incentive management and reward technology
solutions, Tuesday announced the opening of its new Australian offices in Sydney, New South Wales and the
appointment of Mark Wild as Managing Director of OpenSymmetry Australia Pty Ltd.
SAVVIS APPOINTS...
SINGAPORE: Savvis, Inc., a global leader in outsourced internet infrastructure services for the enterprise,
Tuesday announced the appointment of Suan Soon Cheng as its new Managing Director of Asia Pacific,
based out of its Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore.
PHARMA SHOWS...
MAARSSEN: Momentum is building for the early December staging in Mumbai of the third CPhI India and
second P-MEC India pharma ingredients, services and technologies event. A combined total of over 600
exhibitors from over 80 countries are expected at the Bombay Exhibition Centre for the 2009 events, being
held on 1 - 3 December.
BEAUTIFULPEOPLE.COM LIVE!...
globe on Monday, the 26th of October.
NEW PARTNER...
LONDON: Fried Frank announced Tuesday that Mark Wesseldine will join the firm's finance practice as a
partner and will be based in London.
FREELANCER.COM SURPASSES...
SYDNEY: FreelancerTM, formerly known as GetAFreelancer, the world's top freelance jobs micro-
outsourcing marketplace, Monday announced that over 500,000 freelance jobs have been posted to date
through the website.
AGILE ALLIANCE...
PORTLAND, Ore.: The Agile Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the advancement of
Agile software development principles and practices, Tuesday announced six new members to the Agile
Alliance.
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of a securities issue of US$250 million
on Nov 19, 2009 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued
interest.
MOTORS LIQUIDATION...
DETROIT: Motors Liquidation Co. (MLC), formerly known as General Motors Corp., announced Tuesday it
intends to continue with the sale process of its powertrain manufacturing and engineering facility in
Strasbourg, France, which operates as a subsidiary of MLC.
LEGAL SERVICES...
AUCKLAND: Latitude South NZ Ltd Monday launched its new legal services outsourcing offering, designed
for UK in-house legal teams and law firms to reduce the costs of substantive legal work by utilizing a team of
New Zealand-based former lawyers with UK and international experience.
DAVAL AWARDED...
LONDON: Following the provision of clinical and scientific data to the US Food and Drug Administration
(FDA), privately owned UK company Daval International Limited has been informed that its innovative anti-
inflammatory agent AIMSPRO has been awarded an Orphan-Drug designation for the treatment of
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP...
SAN DIEGO: HUYA Bioscience International, a leader in globalizing China's biopharmaceutical innovation,
Monday announced a strategic partnership with the School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of
China.
INTELLIGENT PROJECTORS...
TOKYO: Nippon Avionics Co., Ltd., an NEC Corporation subsidiary, formally released the "iP-01UE" and "iP-
01BE" on November 2 as the latest models in the "Intelligent Projector- iP" series of all-in-one projectors with a
built-in document camera.
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