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September 28th, 2009 LONDON - Russian freediver Natalia Molchanova, aged 47, has become the first woman in the world to make 100 metres in Constant Weight, freediving to 101 meters at Sharm el Sheik, Egypt in the Ruler of the Deep competition. Her total dive time was 3 minutes and 50 seconds.

September 27th, 2009 UITHOORN, The Netherlands - - Concentrating Global Activities in Thailand Improves Customer Relations The global headquarters of HOYA Vision Care, one of the leading developers and producers of high-quality optical lenses and eyeglasses, will be moved to Bangkok on October 1st. Also the global Quality function and part of the R&D function will be moved from Japan to Thailand.

July 12th, 2009 BOZEN, Italy - Health Robotics today announced that it has decided to complement its successful indirect channel strategies with direct investments in local infrastructure at a few territories where a couple of Health Robotics' distributors have been negatively affected by a number of factors, such as the global economic crisis, a distributor's litigation with investors, and some financial difficulties supporting our customers. Some of these new channel strategy decisions have followed a direct channel operation model, while others have taken the form of JV (joint venture) channel strategies.

July 12th, 2009 PLAINVIEW, New York - KyLinTV, the world's leading Chinese IPTV platform, announces the launch of its new strategic partnership with Phoenix China News and Entertainment (Phoenix CNE), aimed at delivering the latest and best in Chinese television programming to viewers in Europe. Based in New York, KyLinTV already has a proven track record in North America, where it offers more than 60 Chinese channels and 30,000-plus hours of video-on-demand (VOD) programming to Chinese-speaking households.

June 1st, 2009 LONDON - With the Twitter population topping six million, a 600% increase in the last 12 months, Twitter is the hottest social media tool for individuals and companies alike. Internet World (IW) and Technology for Marketing & Advertising (TFM&A) have developed this unique conference to look beyond the hype of Twitter and provide practical guidance for all digital marketing, online sales and customer experience managers on how to deliver ROI on Twitter activity.

May 31st, 2009 BERLIN - The 14th annual RETAILVISION EUROPE in Berlin surprised newcomers and veterans alike with a positive note amid the general economic gloom for worldwide retail. Insight from Keynote Presentations provided market research of some commercial value to both retailers and vendors in attendance.

May 25th, 2009 LONDON - Disney Channel Grows CEE Distribution to 12 Million Households With Launches in Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Bulgaria- The Walt Disney Company today announced that it will re-brand its Jetix channels in five Central and Eastern European countries to become Disney Channel, the world's leading kids TV brand. Kid-driven, family inclusive Disney Channel is set to launch later this year in Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Bulgaria, increasing the channel's distribution to 12 million households in the CEE region.

May 17th, 2009 LONDON - Moneybookers, one of Europe's leading online payment systems, today announces that it has been awarded both the Best Execution and the Judges' Award at the 2009 Media Momentum Awards in London. The Media Momentum Awards honour the fastest growing digital media companies in Europe.

March 29th, 2009 DUBAI, UAE - This new TV channel that will soon be making waves over the air directly into the homes of people in Europe, Africa & Middle East has made partnerships with the world's leading TV satellite- HOTBIRD. Expected to be on air starting April this year; PHYSIQUE TV promises to deliver to the world all compelling information and vivid videos available.

March 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Givex, a leading global gift card and loyalty transaction processor, announced today its successful certification to Vision BeanStore by the PCMS Group. Vision BeanStore is a multi-sector PoS product developed to meet the needs of retailers from many different markets.

September 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - People protested and raised slogans against a TV channel Monday when it cancelled auditions for one of its music programmes, police said. The channel was conducting auditions at Kamani auditorium here and had made arrangements for around 400 people only.

April 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram has lashed out at the Indian Premier League (IPL) organisers for taking the cash-rich Twenty20 tournament out of the country.

March 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI/MUMBAI - Cognex(r) Corporation, the world's leading supplier of machine vision systems, vision sensors and industrial ID readers, today conducted a seminar on 'Automation in Solar Industry' for Indian solar manufactures at Hyderabad. Cognex showcased a wide array of vision products applicable to the solar industry, particularly in ensuring the fabrication of high-quality solar cells at a low cost with minimal wastage.

June 20th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Making a startling discovery, a scientist has claimed in his new book that the evolution of vision has provided humans with four real superpowers: telepathy, X-ray vision, seeing the future, and speaking with the dead. And, as it turns out, these superpowers have been instrumental in shaping the way people interact with one another and see the world.

April 14th, 2009 NOSHERA DHALA - Over 500 couples tied the knot on Monday in a mass marriage ceremony held here on the occasion of Baba Jalan Dass Baisakhi Mela. The organisers were praised for taking care of all expenses.

January 31st, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Hockey enthusiasts across the country were upset as the state-run Doordarshan failed to telecast the first day's matches of the Punjab Gold Cup featuring India, Olympic champions Germany, European champions Netherlands and New Zealand. Despite assurances by the Doordarshan officials, the channel failed to telecast the first day's action and the inauguration ceremony here Saturday.

April 6th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Hayden Panettiere's fans paid 50 dollars to have a picture with her at the Supanova Pop Culture Expo. The Hollywood starlet was wearing a black jumpsuit and fawn cardigan at the Brisbane event, as she had security guards making sure that nobody took her picture.

March 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government and the Indian Premier League (IPL) will review the schedule for the second edition of the Twenty20 league Wednesday with home ministry officials maintaining that it would ask the organisers to reschedule the tourney. 'Dates have already been announced for the general elections that would require security personnel to be positioned and repositioned for nearly a month.

January 24th, 2009 MUMBAI - Last weekend Ashutosh Gowariker created quite a flutter in the film industry by vocally criticizing host Sajid Khan for satirizing well-known personalities from the film industry on stage - and he wants the footage of his protest to be shown without any cuts. The buzz in the industry was that the 'Jodhaa-Akbar' director wanted the footage of the heated unpleasant exchange between Sajid Khan and him to be deleted from the telecast and was upset and embarrassed to see the channel highlighting the on-stage fight in their promos of the awards telecast.

March 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Organisers of the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Tuesday submitted a re-revised tournament schedule to the Union Home Ministry. The action was taken after the Home Ministry advised IPL organisers that it may not be possible to hold the Twenty20 series as per its previous revised schedule.