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AsiaNet Daily Summary - Press Releases for Monday, Oct. 13, 2008
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| วันที่ 13 ตุลาคม 2551 16:58 น. |
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ที่มา AsiaNet/InfoQuest
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QUARK PHARMACEUTICALS...
FREMONT, Calif. - Quark Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a
development-stage pharmaceutical company discovering and
developing novel RNA interference-based therapeutics, today
announced that the journal Cancer Research published results on
efficacy of siRNA targeting its proprietary target gene against
non-small cell lung cancer in the edition dated October 1,
2008. The paper, entitled RNAi-Mediated Silencing of Nuclear
Factor Erythroid-2 Related Factor 2 Gene Expression in Non
Small Cell Lung Cancer Inhibits Tumor Growth and Increases Efficacy
of Chemotherapy, reports on research performed in collaboration
with Professor Shyam Biswal of the Division of Pulmonary and
Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University.
www.quarkpharma.com
http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/68/19
7975
WI-FI ALLIANCE...
SHANGHAI - The Wi-Fi Alliance today announced that
Shanghai-based TA Technology recently became its newest
Authorized Test Laboratory, providing independent testing
services to its worldwide roster of member companies in one of
China's key economic capitals. The lab completed testing on its
first Wi-Fi CERTIFIED product late last month.
www.wi-fi.org
GREATEST RACE...
NAIROBI - On Sunday 26th October the world's leading
marathon relay series The Greatest Race on Earth 2008/09 gets
under way with the Nairobi Marathon. Last year's Nairobi
Greatest Race on Earth category winner, China's Lu Lu Li, will
be hoping to better her overall second place this year. In the
Greatest Race on Earth category she crossed the finishing line
first.
www.thegreatestraceonearth.com
MOMAGRI CHINA...
BEIJING - momagri
, the Paris-based think tank established to
prepare solutions to the inadequacies facing the agricultural
sector worldwide, held a press conference in Beijing on October
10, to outline its new vision for agriculture. Topics included
the threats facing the 21st century: how to feed 9 billion
people by 2050, how to fight poverty and how to guarantee food
security in a world of never ending crises.
DEFENDORY DAY
ATHENS - On Friday 10th October, the General Director of
Defence Investment and Armaments, Mr. Evangelos Vasilakos
completed his meetings at the 15th International Exhibition of
DEFENDORY INTERNATIONAL 2008.
OPEC OUTPUT...
LONDON - Platts -- The 13 members of the Organization of the
Petroleum Exporting Countries pumped an average 32.47 million
barrels per day of crude oil in September, a Platts survey of
OPEC and oil industry officials showed today. This is down
340,000 barrels per day from August and reflects output
declines in Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Angola.
www.opec.platts.com
www.platts.com
www.mcgraw-hill.com
TUBE CITY...
PITTSBURGH - Tube City IMS, LLC, a service provider to steel
mills and foundries throughout the world, today announced that
it has opened its first representative trading office in Ho Chi
Minh City, Vietnam. J. David Aronson, President - Raw Materials
and Optimization Group, said Vietnam is an increasingly
important market in the Asia-Pacific region.
www.tubecityims.com
DOMAIN AUCTION...
BRISBANE - Fabulous.com and T.R.A.F.F.I.C., joint organizers
of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Down Under domain name conference, will
hold a charity auction of ten premium domain names with the
revenue to be donated to the Internet Commerce Association , a
non-profit advocate for the domain name industry.
www.TrafficDownUnder.com
www.InternetCommerce.org
www.RickLatona.com
PTC ALLIANCE...
PITTSBURGH - In an effort to access high growth markets in
China and India, PTC Alliance is opening an office in South
Asia. Additionally, a dedicated organization will be in place
to serve and support current customers and their global growth.
The new office will be located in Chennai, India. This newly
created organization will be responsible for all of Asia.
www.ptcalliance.com
CRTC SCANDAL...
TORONTO - An Australian public interest advocate has
requested NDP Leader Jack Layton address a scandal at the
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission; a
case involving some of the most powerful people in Canada,
including billionaire Ted Rogers.
www.mieact.org.au
www.mediascam.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Fannie Mae will redeem the principal
amount of eight MTN securities issues amounting to a total of
US$740 million on October 21, 22 and 23, 2008 at a redemption
price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed
plus accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
AERCAP TRANSACTIONS...
AMSTERDAM - AerCaps CEO Klaus Heinemann commented:
Despite
the growing turmoil in the global markets, AerCaps quarterly
business activities continued with a high degree of normality.
During the third quarter of 2008, a significant number of
letters of intent were converted to signed lease agreements,
all aircraft and engines scheduled for delivery were completed
and accepted by our clients, our committed capital expenditures
were completed and funded, and all targeted asset sales were
executed.
JIMTOF 2008...
TOKYO - The Japan Machine Tool Builders' Association, along
with Tokyo Big Sight Inc. will hold the six-day-long JIMTOF
2008 - the 24th Japan International Machine Tool Fair - at the
Tokyo International Exhibition Center "Tokyo Big Sight". The
event will take place from Thursday, October 30, 2008, to
Tuesday, November 4, 2008.
www.jimtof.org/eng/index.html
BALENCIAGA FRAGRANCE...
PARIS - Balenciaga S.A. and Coty Inc., today announced an
exclusive partnership to create, develop and distribute
fragrance lines under the Balenciaga name. Effective
immediately, the partnership will renew the Balenciaga brand in
keeping with its fragrance heritage, which first started in
1946 with the launch of the famous
Le Dix
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www.coty.com
ADDINTOOLS FEATURE...
HAINAN - Addintools announced a new feature of its
well-demanded Classic Menu for Office 2007 v3.93c, a
light-weight interface add-on for ribbon-styled Microsoft
Office 2007 which easily, without modifying any core files,
brings back the classic style of Microsoft Office 2003
interface yet keeping new features of Microsoft Office 2007 and
the ability to automatically deploy on client computers in
offices. The new feature is a smart and useful way of using
keyboard shortcuts without memorizing massive amount of
Microsoft Office 2007 hotkeys.
www.addintools.com
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distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide
clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.
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