Thailand Financial News

GREEN PROJECT… NEW YORK: The New Songdo City International Business District in South Korea being developed by New York’s Gale International has been accepted as a pilot project and partner by the U.S. Green Building Council for its LEED for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) certification, the first national standard for neighborhood design.

http://www.NewSongdoCity.com ENERGY MARKET… WASHINGTON: US Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, said at a Platts Energy Podium in Washington Monday that he is working with three other senators on a bill designed to shut down certain types of damaging energy market manipulation. http://www.platts.com http://www.energypodium.platts.com ENGINEERING SERVICES… CHICAGO: MWH, a global provider of environmental engineering, construction and strategic consulting services, announced on Monday that it has been selected by Ertan Hydropower Development Company, Ltd. (EHDC) to provide engineering and construction management consulting services for the Jinping I Hydropower project in China. http://www.mwhglobal.com COLLEXIS EXEC VP/CMO… COLUMBIA: Collexis, leading developer of knowledge management (KM) and discovery software, has recently hired Darrell W. Gunter as its Executive VP/Chief Marketing Officer. http://www.collexis.com/ SIDLEY PARTNERSHIP… TOKYO: Akira Nakazawa in the Tokyo office of Sidley Austin Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi Jimusho, in association with Nishikawa & Partners, is among the 36 associates and counsel elevated to partnership in the firm, which now has 659 partners in offices in the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia. http://www.sidley.com SIDLEY AUSTIN… HONG KONG: Charles Allen in the Hong Kong office of Sidley Austin is among the 36 associates and counsel elevated to partnership in the firm, which now has 659 partners in offices in the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia. http://www.sidley.com HITACHI DEAL… LOS ANGELES: Response Genetics, Inc. has announced that it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd., a leading diagnostics manufacturer in Japan. http://www.responsegenetics.com http://www.hitachi-chem.co.jp NEW FORMAT… BERNE: On 1 August, the national holiday, Switzerland’s information portal swissworld.org, which is run by Presence Switzerland, changes to a new format with a rejuvenated, more user-friendly presentation and content. http://www.swissworld.org http://www.presence.ch OMEGA WATCHES… TOKYO: American actor and OMEGA ambassador George Clooney poses for photographers at the Nicolas G. Hayek Center building during an Omega-Event, in Tokyo, 30 July 2007. http://asianetnews.net/ViewImage.asp?ID=74381 http://asianetnews.net/ViewImage.asp?ID=74382 http://asianetnews.net/ViewImage.asp?ID=74383 http://asianetnews.net/ViewImage.asp?ID=74384 FANNIE MAE… WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of one securities issue amounting to a total of US$50 million on August 9, 2007 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com GERRESHEIMER GROWTH… DUSSELDORF: Gerresheimer AG continued its growth trend in the first-half of 2007, which ended on May 31. Sales, which were consolidated with the sales of Wilden AG for the first time, climbed by 40 per cent to 447.3 (previous half year 2006: 320.6) million euros. Gerresheimer. http://www.gerresheimer.com/ir INTERNET PLATFORM… PETACH TIKVA: True Internet, Thailand’s leading Internet Service Provider (ISP) and one of the fastest growing providers in Asia, is implementing Oversi’s caching and content delivery platform to manage the growing P2P (peer-to-peer) traffic load on its network and optimize the delivery of commercial media content to its customers. http://www.oversi.com http://www.truecorp.co.th / ACONEX SELECTED… BUCHAREST: Aconex, has been selected by project management firm PCMG to provide its online information management service to three major residential and hospitality developments located near Mamaia beach and within Constanta in Romania. www.aconex.com TELEKOM RESULTS… KUALA LUMPUR: Telekom Malaysia Berhad recorded an impressive 18.9 percent growth in international revenues in the first half of 2007, rising to RM2.27 billion from RM1.91 billion during the same period last year. www.tm.com.my AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.