TAM and Air China Sign Codeshare Agreement

September 28th, 2009 HONG KONG - - Irish Investment Bank and CITIC GROUP Begin Joint Venture Carbon Bank Ireland, Ltd., an Irish investment bank, today announced the execution of a joint-venture agreement with the Chinese financial conglomerate, CITIC GROUP, to implement a trading platform for Voluntary Emission Credits (VERs). These will be generated by companies which wish to reduce their carbon emissions in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC).

September 25th, 2009 TOKYO - Star Alliance members Air China and ANA will commence a code-sharing agreement on flights operated by both airlines between Beijing Capital International Airport and Tokyo's Haneda Airport from October 25 this year. (Logo: www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080625/CNW017LOGO ) Beijing is the fourth city to be included in the international destination line-up from the normally domestic-only Haneda Airport, joining Seoul, Shanghai and Hong Kong.

September 10th, 2009 GENEVA and DALIAN, People's Republic of China - In a bid to bring leading digital identity solutions to China's large and quickly developing economy, WISeKey and WI Harper, one of China's most successful venture capital firms, today signed a letter of intent to collaborate on developing business opportunities in China. The agreement between Geneva-based WISeKey with WI Harper, a leading venture capital firm with offices in Beijing, Taipei, and San Francisco, is designed to open the Chinese telecom, mobile, and digital media industry to WISeKey eSecurity technologies.

July 6th, 2009 MOSCOW - Modern Commercial Navy (MCN) PLC and United Industrial Corporation JSC have signed a cooperation agreement, anticipating the developmental work of technical and commercial operation factors of the construction of multifunctional supply icebreaker and also tankers for transportation of liquefied natural gas. The tankers' capacity total 75 000 mcubed.

June 23rd, 2009 MOSCOW - - Baker Botts Lawyers Counsel Russian Oil, Gas Company in Complex Oil Supply Transaction A US $15 billion loan agreement between Russian oil and gas company Rosneft and the Chinese government is the first step in the development of a major oil supply contract between the two countries. The agreement, which closed in April of 2009, is one of the largest private loans booked in Russia this year.

June 17th, 2009 HANGZHOU, China - Ownership of "Wahaha" Trademark Belongs to Wahaha Group After Danone Suffers 38th Defeat May 21st, 2009, Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court of Zhejiang Province made the Final judgment to reject the application from Danone on the revocation of No. 207 ruling of Hangzhou Arbitration Commission (2007).

April 27th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that it has inked two framework agreements valued USD 1.7 billion in total with China Mobile and China Telecom, to provide network upgrades, integration and maintenance services in 2009. As the leading operators in China, China Mobile and China Telecom were granted 3G licenses in January 2009, for TD-SCDMA and CDMA/EV-DO technologies, respectively.

April 26th, 2009 SAO PAULO - Agreement allows customers of both airlines to earn and redeem TAM Fidelidade points or Aeroplan Miles on any flight operated by either TAM or Air Canada TAM (NYSE: TAM: Bovespa: TAMM4) and Air Canada, a founding member of Star Alliance, today announced that they will start implementing a bilateral agreement that will allow members of TAM Fidelidade or Air Canada's Aeroplan programs to earn and redeem frequent flyer points/miles beginning April 28, 2009 on flights operated by either company. This initiative is part of a Memorandum of Understanding signed between TAM and Air Canada in June 2008, aiming to expand services offered to customers of both airlines.

April 16th, 2009 CLEVELAND, Ohio - Simbionix, the world's leading developer of medical simulation systems, today announced an agreement with Johnson & Johnson LLC for distribution of Simbionix's simulators and related products. Johnson & Johnson LLC, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, operates in Russia, the Ukraine, and other CIS countries.

April 6th, 2009 SAO PAULO - In the first stage, both companies will share frequencies between Sao Paulo and London, with connections to five Scottish and English cities and four Brazilian capitals TAM (NYSE: TAM; Bovespa: TAMM4), Brazil's largest airline, and Britain's bmi, the second-largest airline operating out of Heathrow Airport, in London, will initiate an operational codeshare agreement on April 14. Approved by officials of both countries, the initial phase of the bilateral agreement will allow the two companies to expand services for customers traveling between Brazil and the United Kingdom, resulting in more destination options in both countries and convenient connections for the largest Brazilian and British cities.

August 31st, 2009 JetBlue, Lufthansa ink codeshare dealNEW YORK — JetBlue Airways and German air carrier Lufthansa have signed a codesharing agreement following the decision by Lufthansa's parent to buy a stake in JetBlue. Codesharing allows airlines to sell seats on each other's flights.

September 2nd, 2009 Soon-to-be sister carriers start codeshare dealDENVER — Frontier Airlines and Midwest Airlines, soon to be under the same fold, began a codeshare agreement on Wednesday. Codesharing allows airlines to sell seats on each other's flights.

April 22nd, 2009 BEIJING - China and France have signed an agreement to extend their cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear power. The three-year agreement, which was signed Tuesday by the heads of the China Atomic Energy Authority (CAEA) and the French Atomic Energy Commission, is the 10th agreement of its kind between the two nations.

April 18th, 2009 Taiwan to discuss trade agreement with ChinaTAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan will discuss a partial free trade agreement with China and sign pacts to enhance economic cooperation during high-level talks in late April, negotiators said Saturday. President Ma Ying-jeou has worked aggressively since taking office last May to turn a corner on his predecessor's anti-China policy and improve economic and trade ties with the mainland.

September 18th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and China Friday signed an agreement to build a communication satellite in the next three years, officials said. China will provide $200 million to Pakistan to build the PAKSAT-1R satellite.

April 21st, 2009 BEIJING - Russia and China signed an agreement on oil cooperation in Beijing Tuesday, under which a new branch from the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline will be built to China. The agreement sets out terms for oil cooperation between the countries, in particular on the laying of a pipeline from the Skovorodino refinery in Russia's Far East to Mohe county in China's Heilongjiang province.

April 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - China and the United States will resume military exchanges that were suspended last November. Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said on Thursday that President Hu Jintao and his US counterpart Barack Obama reached the agreement at their first meeting on Wednesday, one day before the G20 summit in London.

June 28th, 2009 Jordan, Canada sign free trade agreementAMMAN, Jordan — Canada has signed a free trade agreement with Jordan, its first with an Arab country. The agreement, signed Sunday in Jordan's capital, Amman, will give the Mideast country preferential trade conditions, including full exemption from customs duties for Jordanian goods.

April 24th, 2009 Taiwan and China to increase economic cooperationTAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan and China will discuss a partial free trade agreement and sign pacts this weekend to increase economic cooperation, a senior Taiwanese negotiator said Friday. The statement by Straits Exchange Foundation Chairman Chiang Pin-kung comes amid efforts by President Ma Ying-jeou to turn the corner on his predecessor's pro-independence policies and open a new era in relations with the mainland, from which Taiwan split during a civil war in 1949.

July 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India and US are expected to sign an "end-use monitoring" agreement to ease the sale of sophisticated US arms to New Delhi. The signing will be held here this evening when visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet External Affairs Minister S.M.