Friday, April 11, 2008

Technology: GroupM, Consilient to expand mobile email advertising in AsiaPac

Singapore and St. John's - CNW-AsiaNet/ - Consilient, the mobile software developer and GSMA top Mobile Innovation winner for 2007, today announced a business alliance with GroupM, the leading global media investment management operation. The alliance will see both companies collaborating to grow the mobile advertising market with a particular focus on advertising in push email. GroupM is the parent company to WPP media agencies including MAXUS, MediaCom, Mediaedge:cia and MindShare.

Emmanuel Allix, GroupM Asia Pacific Technology Development Director said, "Mobile advertising is a powerful medium that when properly harnessed, can completely revolutionize the advertising industry. As mobile becomes a strategic direction for our company, GroupM continues to forge mutually-beneficial alliances with leading, innovative companies like Consilient.
We believe that Consilient's consumer mobile email technology has unlimited potential for targeted reach on mobile phones and we plan to move aggressively in this direction," Allix added.

The alliance will enable both companies to cross promote their services and offerings to clients, end-users and mobile operators throughout Asia Pacific. GroupM will promote Consilient's Push(TM) email advertising service as an advertising channel to their agencies in the region. Consilient will provide support and preferred access for GroupM's clients within their Push advertising service which is commercially available through leading mobile operators in Asia Pacific.

Consilient's popular mobile email service, Push(TM), allows mobile operators to run a completely free advertising-funded consumer mobile email service. Both the service subscription fee and GPRS data charges are paid by advertisers, enabling consumers to access mobile email for free.

Consilient's mobile advertising server, AdSpotz(TM) delivers targeted advertising in push email services in addition to other popular platforms such as the mobile internet. SingTel in Singapore, AIS in Thailand, Telkomsel in Indonesia, Maxis in Malaysia and Globe in The Philippines have all chosen Consilient's Push messaging software as their preferred mobile solution.

"Working with GroupM will enable Consilient to accelerate our growth in Southeast Asia, a key market for us," said Trevor Adey, Consilient CEO. "Our agreements with Asia's leading mobile operators and the unique advertising channel we offer will ensure that GroupM's clients remain top performers in their respective markets," Adey added.

The formal cooperation agreement between both companies covers the Asia Pacific region - including, Malaysia, Thailand, Korea, China, Philippines, Hong Kong, Australia, Taiwan, Japan, India, Vietnam and Indonesia.

GroupM is a leading media investment operation with a total worldwide market share of 17.5 per cent. RECMA projected the company had worldwide billings of US$60.51bn in 2006. It has a global presence with 402 offices in 81 countries.

About Consilient(R)

Consilient is a developer of mobile advertising and messaging software with offices in Singapore and Canada.
Consilient was named the overall Mobile Innovation GSMA award winner for 2007 at the Asia Mobile Awards in Macau.
Consilient's mobile advertising engine and push messaging software also won the "Most Innovative Consumer Application or Service" category at the GSMA awards. www.consilient.com

SOURCE: Consilient
CONTACT: Media Contacts:
Consilient:
Libby Carew,
Director of Marketing,
1-709-757-3425 or
1-709-749-4556,
Libby_Carew@consilient.com;
GroupM:
Emmanuel Allix,
Regional Technology Director,
+65 6232 5449,
Emmanuel.Allix@groupm.com

Sports: PM Rudd says `No Excuses` for lost foreigners in Beijing

PM Rudd Says 'No Excuses' For Lost Foreigners in Beijing at Launch of Olympic Technology Export

Beijing (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - On his first official visit to China as Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon. Kevin Rudd, MP, last night launched SmartTrans EventTrack(R), an advanced Australian technology export which will be used by major Olympic sponsors including Schenker Logistics and BHP Billiton to aid in the transport, management and safety of people and assets during the Beijing 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

In launching SmartTrans EventTrack, the Prime Minister proudly said, "This piece of technology is very, very innovative and will be very, very good for the many foreigners who will be visiting this great city for the Olympics.

"EventTrack is another very useful application that will assist many of Beijings Olympic visitors to maximise their enjoyment of the Olympic experience and all the wonderful sites and attractions Beijing has to offer.

"To have Australian technology in the hands of so many of the worlds company representatives as they move throughout Beijing is a unique and wonderful opportunity to showcase Australias practical solutions to unique problems in unique environments.

"I applaud SmartTrans and their partners for their efforts to date in bringing a new Australian product to China and wish them very well with their endeavors up to, during and beyond this great and important event.

"I believe that as the year unfolds there will be no excuse whatsoever for any foreigners to become lost in Beijing and if they do get lost in Beijing, the fault will be theirs for not having invested themselves personally in SmartTrans and
EventTrack."

SmartTrans (ASX: SMA) EventTrack is the worlds only system specifically designed to manage the unique and challenging requirements of VIP transport and human logistics at major events such as the Olympics. Building on the success of its use during the Sydney Olympics, EventTrack 2008 is being rolled out today to manage the complex scheduling and transport requirements of guests and personnel during Games time.

SmartTrans (ASX: SMA) is a world leader in the application of technology to assist with transport planning and the automated location of people and assets based on Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Mobile Data Communication and automated routing and scheduling.

For media enquiries, please contact:
CHINA
In English or Mandarin Chinese:
Ms. Chen Zhu, Media Director, Illuminant Partners
Tel:
+86-158-1091-5800
Email: chen.zhu@illuminantpartners.com
AUSTRALIA
In English:
Ms. Michelle Myers
Tel:
+61-415-652-913
Email: michellemyers@bigpond.com
For sales enquiries, please contact:
SmartTrans China
Suite 1706, Tower A
GT International Centre
No. 3 Yong An Dongli Jianwai Ave
Beijing CBD, 100022
Tel:
+86-10-5879-4050
CHINA
SmartTrans Australia
Level 7, 11 Queens Road
Melbourne VIC 3004
Tel:
+61-3-9866 7333
AUSTRALIA
SOURCE SmartTrans

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Technology: Friendster now available in Indonesian

Friendster, the largest social network in Indonesia and across Asia, shares


Jakarta (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - Friendster, Inc. (http://www.friendster.com) today announced that Friendster.com is available in Indonesian, allowing Friendster users and visitors a greater choice of languages with which to navigate the site, enter content and use Friendster's complete set of social networking features.

Friendster now fully supports seven languages -- English, Indonesian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Spanish. These languages represent over 67 percent of the world's Internet users, or over three quarters of a billion Internet users in total.

In Indonesia, Friendster has over 8 million registered users and 4 million monthly unique visitors to Friendster.com as of February 2008(1). Since there are 20 million Internet users in Indonesia(2), 20 percent of Indonesia visited Friendster in February, and over 40 percent of Indonesia has a Friendster account. A typical user spends 30 minutes a day on Friendster and visits Friendster several times a week, communicating with friends and sharing/consuming content through a suite of features.

Friendster is the most popular online social network in Indonesia with over 3.9 million weekly unique users, according to analysis of Alexa data as of April 1, 2008(3). "This makes Friendster more than five times larger than Facebook which has no more than 700,000 unique users each week, and this makes Friendster seven times larger than MySpace which has no more than 530,000 in Indonesia," said David Jones, vice president of global marketing at Friendster. "As the second largest Web site in Indonesia (second only to Yahoo!) and the No. 1 social network in Indonesia, launching support for Indonesian will help Friendster maintain and extend its leadership position in the country as well as with Indonesians around the world.

Indonesian as a language choice on Friendster has been available in beta for about four weeks. In only four weeks, over 250,000 users per day are now using Friendster in Indonesian, and they are currently viewing pages on Friendster in Indonesian at the rate of 140 million pages per month. Several thousand new users in Indonesia are registering each day, and over four thousand people every day are registering with Indonesian set as their language. "We haven't marketed Indonesian much to our users, so we are pleased with this level of adoption during this initial brief beta phase," said Jones.

Friendster has implemented multi-language support on a single domain -- Friendster.com -- to promote communication and interaction among users who speak different languages.
Seventy-nine percent of active Friendster users have friends in more than one country, and 23 percent of friend connections are between users in different countries. These cross-border percentages, believed to be the highest of all major social networks, require multi-language support to be implemented in a single, global Web site. While other social networking sites create separate sites for different countries or languages, Friendster was the first global online social network to employ this single-site approach to allow and encourage multi-cultural exchange and communications -- regardless of language -- among users around the world. Additionally, Friendster users can enter content in any language throughout the site as they use Friendster's complete set of social networking features.

"Friendster has a large number of bilingual users who would like the choice to enter their content and use the site in either English or Indonesian, and countless users are looking forward to inviting their friends and family who speak Indonesian to join them on Friendster," said Jones.

Users can permanently or temporarily set their language of choice via links at the top right of every page of the Friendster.com Web site or via the "Settings" link.

Friendster Leads in Asia

Friendster is the No. 1 social network in Asia, with over 49 million registered users and 32 million monthly unique visitors from Asia(1). In Asia, Friendster is more than double the size of any other social network. While Friendster has 32 million monthly unique visitors in Asia, MySpace.com and MySpace.cn have only 15 million combined, Facebook has 14 million, CyWorld (Korea) has 14 million, Hi5 has 10 million, Orkut has 10 million, Xiaonei (China) has 5 million, 51.com (China) has 5 million, and Bebo has 4 million(1).

Friendster Advances Globally

Friendster is the eighth-largest Web site in the world and the third largest social network in the world in terms of traffic(1). In the last two months, Friendster moved from 12th place to eighth place in the world, passing Tencent (operator of QQ.com in China), Cyworld (a social network in Korea), NHN Corporation (operator of Naver, the top Korean Web portal), and Hi5 (a social network primarily used in Central/South America and non-Western Europe).

Friendster is growing faster than any other top social network in absolute terms and percentage terms over the last month and the last quarter(1). In February, for example, Friendster grew 9 percent or 3 million monthly unique visitors. In January, Friendster grew 15 percent, or 4.4 million monthly unique visitors. Over the last three months, Friendster has grown a total of 8.7 million monthly unique visitors, or 31 percent, more than any other top social network.

About Friendster

With more than 65 million members worldwide, Friendster is a leading global online social network. Friendster is focused on helping people stay in touch with friends and discover new people and things that are important to them. Online adults, 18 and up, choose Friendster to connect with friends, family, school, social groups, activities and interests. Friendster prides itself in delivering an easy-to-use, friendly and interactive environment where users can easily connect with anyone around the world. Friendster has a growing portfolio of patents granted to the company on social networking, with more expected over the next several months. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Friendster is backed by Kleiner Perkins
Caufield & Byers, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures and individual investors. For more information, visit: http://www.friendster.com.

1 comScore Media Metrix, February 2008
2 InternetWorldStats.com, December 2007
3 Analysis of Alexa and InternetWorldStats.com data

SOURCE Friendster, Inc.
CONTACT: Lerin O'Neill of The Hoffman Agency,
+1-408-975-3037,
press@friendster.com, for Friendster
Web site: http://www.friendster.com

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Business: Real Estate experts to convene in Sydney for CoreNet Global`s 2008 Summit

Corporate Real Estate & Workplace Professionals from Global Companies will Meet to Discuss the Latest Trends, Opportunities and Developments Impacting the Corporate Real Estate Sector

Sydney, (ANTARA News/Xinhua-PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - CoreNet Global, the world's premier association for the corporate real estate industry, today announced that over 200 realty professionals representing companies around the world will convene in Sydney in June for the association's 2008 Global Summit.

With a special focus on "Generations @ Work: How Corporate Real Estate Can Bridge the Talent Gap," the 7th annual CoreNet Global event in Australia will be held at Sydney's Sheraton on the Park from June 29-July 1, 2008.

Mr. Scott Haslem, Chief Economist at UBS, will open the Summit with a global, regional and local business outlook that will highlight the major trends driving real estate growth and restructuring, and the challenges these trends present for global enterprises.

Other confirmed keynote speakers include:

-- Best-selling author and business consultant, Mr. Peter Sheahan who will provide an introduction to the generational differences in the workplace and why those born between 1978 and 1994 are the most influential group in the world;

-- Ms. Sarah K. Abrams, President of Fidelity Real Estate Company, Boston who will discuss how a corporate realty department can transform itself into a function capable of influencing the direction of a company;

-- and Mr. Philip Ross, CEO of the Cordless Group, London who will examine how emerging technologies can be used to create corporate real estate advantages, and help create a sustainable workforce.

According to CoreNet Global's Region Director for Australia and New Zealand Mr. Peter Chenoweth, the association's annual Summit is increasingly attracting leading real estate professionals from both around Australia and the world keen to network with industry experts, establish new client relationships, and gain practical insights into international best practices and workplace strategies.

Comments Mr. Chenoweth, "CoreNet Global Summits are one of the most effective forums for real estate practitioners to gather and meet individuals that are taking the industry to the next level, whilst exploring issues that are posing real challenges to the sector."

Aside from the keynote sessions, Mr. Chenoweth points out that delegates will be able to select from a range of optional workshops from 'Supporting Talent with Strategic Workplace Design' and 'The Next Evolutionary Workplace' to "Attracting and Retaining Property Professionals in a Competitive Employment Market."

In conjunction with its Summit, CoreNet Global will also be announcing the recipient of its 2008 Corporate Property CRE Executive of the Year Award at a gala dinner scheduled for the evening of June 30, 2008.

With regards to sponsorship, Mr. Chenoweth notes that Colliers International, Bovis Lend Lease, PSG Asia, Brookfield Multiplex, Schiavello, Powerhouse Group, Jones Lang LaSalle, Manhattan Asia Pacific, Vision Software, Haworth, Invest Victoria, Johnson Controls, Qube Global Software, Woods Bagot, Corporate Property, Blake Dawson and LseMod have all committed their support.

"Subsequently, this year's event will equip delegates with the knowledge required to operate more efficiently within a corporate industry that is facing progressive change on multiple fronts," concludes Mr. Chenoweth. "It will also provide a forum where many valuable relationships are initiated and many business deals begin," he concluded.

For further information regarding registration or corporate sponsorship, please contact CoreNet Global on +61 3 9646 9703 or via email at pchenoweth@corenetglobal.org. Alternatively, please visit http://www.corenetglobalausnz.com for details.

About CoreNet Global

CoreNet Global members manage US $1.2 trillion in worldwide corporate assets consisting of owned and leased office, industrial and other space. With 7000 members representing large corporations around the world, CoreNet Global operates in five global regions: Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America and North America, including Canada.

CONTACT:
Peter Chenoweth, CoreNet Global
Phone: +61-3-9646-9703
Mobile: +61-414-932-830
Email: pchenoweth@corenetglobal.org
Janet Middlemiss, JEM Worldwide
Phone: +852-2857-3832
Mobile: +852-9195-7829
Email: janet@jemworldwide.com
SOURCE CoreNet Global

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Fund/bank: VALE makes payment to holders of convertible notes

Rio de Janeiro, (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (VALE) will pay additional interest to holders of the mandatorily convertible notes (notes) due June 15, 2010 issued by its wholly-owned subsidiary, Vale Capital Ltd., in two series, RIO and RIO P.


Under the indentures governing the notes, additional interest due to each noteholder is an amount in U.S. dollars equal to any cash distribution net of any applicable withholding tax and fees paid by the Depositary of our ADSs -- each representing one common/preferred VALE share, RIO/RIOPR -- to the holder of one ADS, multiplied by the number of ADSs that would be received by the noteholder upon conversion of the notes at the conversion rate specified in the applicable indenture (as adjusted for the forward-stock split approved in August 2007). Therefore, the approval by our Board of Directors of a dividend distribution to shareholders, as announced today, triggered the payment of additional interest to noteholders.

The additional interest paid per series RIO note and per series RIO P note will be equal to an amount in U.S. dollars equivalent to R$ 0.819988 and R$ 0.973215, respectively, converted at the current Brazilian real/US dollar exchange rate on April 30, 2008.

The additional interest will be paid to noteholders listed on the records of the trustee as of April 15, 2008 (regular record date). The Bank of New York, the trustee, will pay the noteholders on May 7, 2008.

SOURCE VALE
CONTACT: Roberto Castello Branco,
roberto.castello.branco@vale.com,
or Alessandra Gadelha,
alessandra.gadelha@vale.com,
or Patricia Calazans,
patricia.calazans@vale.com,
or Theo Penedo,
theo.penedo@vale.com,
or Marcus Thieme,
marcus.thieme@vale.com,
or Tacio Neto,
tacio.neto@vale.com,
all of Vale,
+55-21-3814-4540
Web site: http://www.cvrd.com.br
(RIO)

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Health/Medical: Landmark study aims to improve osteoporosis care standards worldwide

Istanbul, (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - Nearly 60,000 women aged 55 years and older have enrolled in a landmark, multi-national study that will focus on the management of osteoporosis across the globe.

Launch of the Global Longitudinal Registry of Osteoporosis in Women (GLOW) was announced today at ECCEO 8 (Eighth European Congress on Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis) in Istanbul, Turkey. This groundbreaking observational study (registry) in osteoporosis aims to gain insights to improve the standard of care for postmenopausal women at risk of osteoporosis.

"We know that there are patients at high risk for osteoporosis, sometimes already having suffered a broken bone, who aren't getting diagnosed and treated. We have to figure out why not," said Dr. Robert Lindsay, GLOW Executive Committee Co-Chair and Chief of Internal Medicine at Helen Hayes Hospital, West Haverstraw, NY. "Globally we have an aging female population that wants to maintain independence and vitality. We can help by finding the key to improving diagnosis and treatment of this debilitating disease."

GLOW will monitor tens of thousands of older women who have visited a primary care physician in the past two years. Since patient recruitment for GLOW is not linked to osteoporosis diagnosis and does not alter physician practice, the study provides a good representation of "typical" older women and the bone health care they receive in the real world. Women are participating from 17 cities in 10 countries on 3 continents.

"We want to understand regional differences in physician and patient behavior and how that impacts patient outcomes," said Professor Pierre Delmas, GLOW Executive Committee Co-Chair and Professor of Medicine and Rheumatology, Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon, France. "Hopefully, armed with that knowledge we will be able to recommend best practices and improve the management of osteoporosis worldwide."

GLOW is being conducted by The Center for Outcomes Research (COR), University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS), with the support of an unrestricted research grant from The Alliance for Better Bone Health. The Alliance for Better Bone Health is a collaboration between sanofi-aventis and Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals.

"We are grateful for the commitment of the sponsors and scientific advisors to the GLOW project. We anticipate that these data will provide important information to improve the quality of lives of women at risk for osteoporotic fractures," said Dr. Fred Anderson, Director of the Center for Outcomes Research and research professor of surgery and medicine at UMMS. "This pioneering initiative will be the first comprehensive multi-national look into the relationship between risk factors, patient outcomes and treatment patterns for osteoporosis."

Milestone data from GLOW will be communicated on an ongoing basis at international medical conferences and through peer-reviewed publications. For more information on GLOW, please visit: http://www.outcomes.org/glow

About GLOW

GLOW is a prospective, longitudinal, observational study of women over 55 years of age who visited a primary care physician during the two years prior to the study. Women were recruited through 700 primary care physicians in 17 cities in North America, Europe, and Australia. GLOW will gather information on osteoporosis risk factors, treatment approaches, patient behavior, and fracture outcomes with an annual patient survey over a 5 year period.

GLOW study sites are the following:
Lyon, France
Paris, France
Leuven, Belgium
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Barcelona, Spain
Essen, Germany
Verona, Italy
Southampton, UK
West Haverstraw, NY USA
Worcester, MA USA
Pittsburgh, PA USA
Seattle, WA USA
Cincinnati, OH USA
Los Angeles, CA USA
Birmingham, AL USA
Hamilton, Ontario Canada
Sydney, Australia

About osteoporosis

Osteoporosis-related fragility fractures are an international public health problem responsible for increased mortality, functional impairment and added health care costs. Estimates are that between 40 and 50 percent of white women above the age of 50 in North America, Europe and Australia will incur an osteoporosis-related fracture in their lifetime. Although their rates are lower, non-white women and men are also susceptible. Because the likelihood of fragility fractures increases dramatically with age, fracture numbers are projected to rise as the population ages.

About the Center for Outcomes Research (COR)

COR is based at the University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA, USA. The mission of COR is to collect and evaluate data that reflect real world practices and outcomes and to provide physicians with confidential reports that allow comparison of their practices to evidence based performance standards. For more information, please visit: http://www.outcomes.org

SOURCE: University of Massachusetts
NOTE TO EDITORS:
Spokespeople available for comment:
Dr. Robert Lindsay
Executive committee co-chair, GLOW
Chief of Internal Medicine
at Helen Hayes Hospital, West Haverstraw, NY
Professor Pierre Delmas
Executive committee co-chair, GLOW
Professor of medicine and rheumatology,
Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon, France

CONTACT: Helen Crow,
+44-0-7787-533-023,
helen.crow@ketchum.com, or
Peter Impey,
+44-0-7976-734-493,
peter.impey@ketchum.com,
both of Ketchum,
for University of Massachusetts
Web site: http://www.outcomes-umassmed.org
http://www.outcomes.org/glow

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Business: Business in Asia Today - April 11, 2008

TAKEDA TO ACQUIRE US FIRM MILLENNIUM VIA US$8.8 BLN TENDER OFFER
Tokyo (ANTARA News/Asia Pulse) - In what would be the biggest acquisition by a Japanese drug company, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. (TSE:4502) plans to purchase U.S. biopharmaceutical firm Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc. for US$8.8 billion, or roughly 880 billion yen, through a tender offer.
The leading Japanese drugmaker said Thursday that it will tap its cash holdings to buy a 100 per cent stake in Millennium. The offering price of US$25 per share is a 52.9 per cent premium over Millennium stock's closing price Wednesday.

GUANGDONG DEVELOPMENT BANK BACK IN THE BLACK
Beijing (ANTARA News/Asia Pulse) - Guangdong Development Bank Co Ltd (GDB) reported a record net income of 2.67 billion yuan (US$381.3 million) for last year, marking its return to the black and achieving its best financial results ever, a company source said Thursday.
"We are delighted with last year's results since it was the first year after the introduction of new strategic investors such as China Life, State Grid, CITIC Trust and Citigroup," company President Michael Zink said.
Last year's net income marks an increase of 3.21 billion yuan from 2006, when GDB registered a net loss of 541 million yuan, according to Zink.

VIETNAM'S NATIONAL SHIPPING LINES SETS HIGH TARGET FOR 2008
Hanoi (ANTARA News/Asia Pulse) - Vietnam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) plans to invest about US$3 billion in development through 2010, Vinalines Director Mai Van Phuc said.
The money would mostly be invested in the building and development of its flotilla, the upgrade of seaport infrastructure and the development of transport service, Phuc added.
Vinalines is currently building new ships and buying second-hand ones from foreign partners to increase its total ship capacity from 2.1 million tonnes by theend of 2007 to 2.8 million tonnes by the end of 2008, and up to 5 million tonnes by 2010.

INDONESIA'S MEDCO TO BUILD US$55 MLN POWER PLANT IN SINGAPORE
Jakarta (ANTARA News/Asia Pulse) - Indonesia's Medco Energi Group said it will build a US$55 million biomass fuelled power plant in Jurong, Singapore in cooperation with Singapore's Biofuel Indusyries (BI).
The project, using plant and wood waste for fuel, will have a generating capacity of 25 megawatts of power, said Fazil Alfritri, president of Medco Power Venture (MPV), a subsidiary of the Medco Group.

CADBURY LOSES PURPLE CASE TO AUSTRALIAN CONFECTIONER DARRELL LEA
Melbourne (ANTARA News/Asia Pulse) - Chocolate giant Cadbury has lost a court bid to stop Australian rival Darrell Lea using the colour purple. The Federal Court has dismissed an application by Cadbury Schweppes that the use of purple by Darrell Lea amounted to misleading
and deceptive conduct.
Justice Peter Heerey said he was not persuaded that Darrell Lea in using purple had passed off itsbusiness or products as those of Cadbury or had contravened the Trade Practices Act.
Cadbury had claimed customers linked purple with their products and mistook Darrell Lea's goods for Cadbury's, and vice versa.

AUSTRALIAN STOCKBROKER LIFT CAPITAL GOES INTO ADMINISTRATION
Melbourne (ANTARA News/Asia Pulse) - Unlisted Australian stockbroker Lift Capital Partners Pty, which specialises in margin lending, has gone into voluntary administration.
Tony McGrath and Joseph Hayes of corporate recovery and advisory firm McGrathNicol have been appointed as voluntary administrators, the corporate recovery firm said today.
Lift Capital operates as a margin lender and has approximately 1,600 clients with interests predominantly in listed shares and managed funds.

FINANCIAL TECH INDIA ACQUIRES 90% STAKE IN ICX FOR US$1.5 MLN
Mumbai (ANTARA News/Asia Pulse) - Financial Technologies India Ltd (BSE:526881), the main promoter of India's largest commodity exchange MCX, on Thursday said it has acquired 90 per cent stake in a South Africa-based ICX Platform (Pty) Ltd for US$1.5 million.
Financial Technologies has acquired a 90 per cent stake in ICX Platform (Pty) Ltd, a technology company situated at
Johannesburg, South Africa, the firm said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange.

INDIA'S RIL TALKS WITH FOREIGN COS TO SELL 10% STAKE IN D6 BLOCK
Mumbai (ANTARA News/Asia Pulse) - Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries (BSE:500325) is mulling over bringing a new strategic foreign partner for deepwater exploration in its KG Basin D-6 block and is understood to be talking to many players for divesting up to a 10 per cent stake. RIL is considering this deal as part of a long-term strategic move as the company needs a partner for the level of deepwater drilling that is required at this particular block, industry sources said on condition of anonymity.
The potential partners could be among the global energy giants like ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Total and Petrobras, as these are the companies with required expertise, sources said.

INDONESIA'S RAJAWALI GROUP TO DEVELOP CAMBODIAN AIRLINE
Jakarta (ANTARA News/Asia Pulse) - Indonesia's Rajawali Group on Thursday signed a cooperation agreement with the Cambodian government to develop its national airline. Under the agreement, Rajawali will build the infrastructure facilities needed to develop the airline, the company's spokesman, Christiantoko, said on Thursday.
As a follow-up to the agreement, both sides will set up a new company which will be 49 per cent owned by Rajawali and 51 per cent by the Cambodian government, he said.

DUBAI'S EMAAR INTENSIFIES TOURIST ZONE INVESTMENT IN INDONESIA
Mataram (ANTARA News/Asia Pulse) - The biggest state-owned company in Dubai, Emaar Properties LLC Dubai, has been speeding up the realization of its investment in a US$600-700 million integrated tourist zone in the Indonesian province of Central Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara.
"Emaar is speeding up the drawing up of a master plan of the project," said M. Abdul, a member of the Vice Presidential expert staff, when presiding over a meeting on preparations of infrastructure facilities for investment by Emaar Properties LLC Dubai, in Mataram on Thursday.
"All the relevant agencies and institutions need to act quickly, and all the work supporting the investment need to be carried out in parallel," he said.

Source:
Business in Asia Today -April 11, 2008
published by Asia Pulse

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Business: Bentley opens BE Conference 2008, announces keynote

Bentley opens BE Conference 2008 Registration, announces keynotes by leading infrastructure experts event features best practices for sustaining infrastructure and keynote by Andrew Winston, Co-author of Best-Seller 'Green to Gold' Technology Writers BE Conference 2008


Exton, Pa. (BUSINESS WIRE) - Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that registration is open at www.bentley.com/BEconference/registration for BE Conference 2008 ? BEst Practices for Sustaining Infrastructure, being held May 28-30 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Md.
During this two-and-a-half-day event, decision makers and senior practitioners from infrastructure organizations around the globe, including owner-operators and AEC firms, will share innovative best practices using Bentley solutions. Conference sessions will address the needs of executives, managers, architects, engineers, designers, builders, and other infrastructure professionals and include user-led content and programs dedicated to 10 "solutions communities": BIM and Beyond, Bridge Information Modeling (BrIM), Cadastre and Land Development, Communications, Oil and Gas, Mining and Metals, Electric and Gas Utilities and Power Generation, Rail and Transit, Roads, and Water and Wastewater. The BE Conference 2008 keynote presentation will be made by Andrew Winston, founder of Winston Eco-Strategies and co-author of the best-seller "Green to Gold."

Other presentations will be made by renowned thought leaders from some of the world's most preeminent organizations, highlighted by: Walker Lee Evey, president and CEO,Design-Build Institute of America"Trends and Challenges to Integrated Project Delivery"

Rebecca L. Flora, AICP, LEED AP - U.S. Green Building Council,USGBC executive committee chair,executive director, Green Building Alliance"Beyond Green Buildings: A Road Map for Transforming Our Built Environment"

Mark Reichardt, president and CEO,Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc."The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Vision"

Tom Warne, president and founder, Tom Warne & Associates"Meeting the Challenges of Modern and Aging Transportation Systems"

John Young, COO, American Water"The Sustainability Mandate - Challenges, Opportunities, andResponsibilities Facing the Water
and Wastewater Industry"

Ankush Krishan, managing director, IRCON, Indian Railways"Delivering Sustainable Rail Infrastructure Around the World"

Pieter Diedericks, senior project director, Petro-CanadaEdmonton Refinery Conversion Projects"Managing Mega Projects ? an Owner-Operator Perspective"

Dr. Mukti Das, principal civil engineer,Bechtel Power Corporation"Use of STAAD.Pro in Bechtel Corporation"

Aiden Byrne, principal lead program manager,Virtual Earth Business Unit, Microsoft"The New Geospatial Paradigm: A Convergence of Technologies"

Dr. Richard H.F. Jackson, director, FIATECH"FIATECH, Delivering ISO 15926"

Alan Edgar, Associate AIA, workgroup program manager,Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate,chair, NBIMS executive committee"Surfing the BIM Transformation"

Dr. Bracht, Verband Deutscher Ingenieure, professor,FH Clausthal Zellerfeld"The Digital Factory Concept"

Commenting on the upcoming conference, Bentley CMO Ed Mueller said, "This is my first BE Conference, and I'm truly impressed with the incredible enthusiasm and effort that is going into this event. The entire Bentley team is working hard to guarantee a remarkable experience for attendees ? one that clearly echoes the company's commitment to sustaining the built and natural environments by empowering practitioners to efficiently create infrastructure assets that improve quality of life, consume materials and energy less intensively, and are more impervious to catastrophe."

BE Conference is also about sustaining the infrastructure professions, which face the difficult task of satisfying the growing need for more infrastructure with scarcer engineering resources. At the conference, executives, managers, and practitioners will come together to network and share pragmatic innovations developed by the Bentley solutions communities that will help them meet this critical challenge.

Mueller continued, "In many ways, BE Conference 2008 will be a first-time experience for all who attend. Its approach is fresh and its focus unique ? the extensive sharing of best practices using Bentley solutions for specific types of infrastructure projects, along with a host of special events highlighted by our annual BE Awards of Excellence ceremony and celebration. I'm eager to attend this exciting event and look forward to personally meeting with as many of our conference participants as I can."

The highly focused agenda of BE Conference 2008 will enable attendees to explore innovative ways to increase productivity, improve project quality, and reduce the costs associated with sustaining infrastructure.

In short, it will provide them the opportunity to learn how to work smarter as they face the dual challenge posed by burgeoning demand for new and revitalized infrastructure and the need for new entrants into the infrastructure professions.

BE Awards of Excellence The BE Awards of Excellence are always a high point of the BE Conference. The BE Awards, which are judged by independent panels of industry experts and presented at an evening ceremony and celebration, honor the extraordinary work of Bentley users improving the world's infrastructure. These projects set benchmarks and showcase the
imagination and technical mastery of the organizations that created them.

Exhibit Hall The BE Conference 2008 exhibit hall will have a new dynamic this year.

The exhibit floor will provide a learning and casual networking environment that will enable attendees to meet, collaborate with, and learn from Bentley experts in the "Solutions Areas." In addition, they will have the opportunity to visit with representatives from companies that help drive, extend, and provide value to Bentley's software, including HP, Leica, McGraw-Hill, and Microsoft.

BE Conference Attendees Attendees to BE Conference 2008 will come from AE firms; architecture firms; design-build firms; engineering consultants; structural engineering firms; facility owner-operators; departments of transportation (DOTs) and transportation ministries; rail companies; site engineering firms; communications and utilities firms; national governments
and associated contractors; local governments; cadastral authorities; public works agencies; plant engineering procurement/construction (EPC) contractors; and plant owner-operators.

To register for BE Conference 2008, taking place May 28-30 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Md., visit www.bentley.com/BEconference/registration.

For more information about the conference, visit www.bentley.com/BEconference.

About Bentley Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle of the world's infrastructure. The company's comprehensive portfolio for the building, plant, civil, and geospatial verticals spans architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) and operations. With revenues now surpassing $400 million annually, and more than 2,400 colleagues globally, Bentley is the leading provider of AEC software to the Engineering News-Record Top Design Firms and major owner-operators, and was named the world's No. 2 provider of GIS/geospatial software solutions in a Daratech research
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