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FLOW THRILLS… PERTH - Nido Petroleum Ltd (Nido) is pleased to announce that the Galoc 3 horizontal production well flowed oil to the surface unassisted at a maximum rate of 5,397 barrels per day during clean up flow testing on 20 and 21 February 2008.

www.nido.com.au COMPANY APPOINTS… SYDNEY - Edgar, Dunn & Company, a leading independent global financial services and payments consultancy, announced Tuesday that David Dee has been promoted to Director, where he will serve EDC’s Asia Pacific clients from its Sydney office. http://www.edgardunn.com STARS PARTY… LOS ANGELES - Sunday night, after all the Oscars had been awarded, four hundred of Hollywood’s most recognizable names reveled inside Prince’s private Post-Oscar Event held at his Beverly Hills estate, “The 77″. http://www.citizensofhumanity.com http://www.wireimage.com MICREL PREVIEWS… CHENGDU - Micrel Inc., an industry leader in IC analog, high bandwidth and Ethernet solutions, Wednesday announced that it would be previewing the industry’s newest and most innovative power analog IC solutions at the 13th Annual International IC-China Conference & Exhibition. http://www.micrel.com UNIVERSITY CHOOSES… SYDNEY - The University of Western Sydney has chosen Verizon Business to help protect its network from internal and external security threats. http://www.verizon.com http://www.verizonbusiness.com INTEXYS POWERS… TOULOUSE - Intexys Photonics introduces its family of Optical Engines for parallel optics applications and more particularly, for the Optical Active Cable emerging market. http://www.intexysphotonics.com CHAPTER FORMS… SYDNEY - The Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) recently announced the formation of the ACAMS Australasian Chapter. www.acams.org CARBON CAPTURES… SYDNEY - The world’s most advanced carbon capture system, the Purenergy CO2 Capture System, was showcased at the recent Australian Canadian Premier’s Conference held in Adelaide, Australia. www.eestechinc.com. ANADIGICS UNVEILS… WARREN - ANADIGICS, Inc., a leading provider of semiconductor solutions in the broadband wireless and wireline communications markets, Tuesday announced its new ACA2604 RF amplifier for fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) applications. http://www.anadigics.com MICRO ANNOUNCES… AUSTIN - Luminary Micro, creators of the award-winning Stellaris family of ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontrollers (MCUs), Tuesday announced rapid-time-to-market communications modules and reference design kits for Ethernet-enabled display applications and serial-to-Ethernet communications applications. http://www.LuminaryMicro.com NORDBANK FILES… HAMBURG - HSH Nordbank confirms that it has filed its claim against UBS in respect of significant losses incurred on a US$500 million portfolio of CDOs linked to the US mortgage market which were structured and sold by UBS. FAIR SHOWCASES… BENTO GONCALVES - MOVELSUL BRASIL 2008, showcasing the quality of Brazilian furniture by more than 415 exhibitors and the largest international furniture fair in Latin America, will be held March 24-28 in the southern Brazilian city of Bento Goncalves. http://www.movelsul.com.br FANNIE MAE… WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$245 million on March 7, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com FANNIE MAE… WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTNR securities issues amounting to a total of US$25 million on March 7, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com FANNIE MAE… WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of FINP securities issues amounting to a total of US$5.098 million on March 7, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com ATMEL REDEFINES… SAN JOSE - Atmel Corporation announced Tuesday the AVR XMEGA family, an important addition to their successful AVR microcontrollers. http://www.atmel.com ATMEL INTRODUCES… ROUSSET - Atmel Corporation announced Tuesday a new series of high-performance, ultra-low power ARM7TDMI-based microcontrollers, the AT91SAM7L series, embedding power switches controlling multiple power islands and programmable voltage regulators to reduce power consumption in active and standby modes. http://www.atmel.com CANBET BLASTS… MELBOURNE - This March, UK bookmaker and leading gaming operator, Canbet is giving one lucky punter the chance to win a 20,000 pounds Betting Bank to bet with on Grand National Day, and pocket the day’s profit, in its revolutionary Big Bet Blast promotion. www.canbet.com BIONOMICS INITIATES… MELBOURNE - Bionomics Limited Tuesday announced the initiation of treatment for the first patient in the Phase I trial of its anti-cancer drug, BNC105. www.bionomics.com.au AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.