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MZ Group Continues Its Global Expansion Process And Arrives In Australia

newsroom@abnnewswire.net — Tue, 7 May 2013 10:34:04 GMT

The MZ Group, the world's largest independent investor relations, announces the beginning of its activities in Australia and the implementation of the concept one-stop-shop characteristic of the Group in the region. Focusing on large growth opportunity in the country, Kevin Russeth, Annabel Murphy and Paul Kelly, take the expertise of MZ Group to assist Australian companies to hone their communication efforts globally.

"With extensive knowledge in strategic programs of investor relations, will assist local businesses in improving the information provided to its stakeholders, increasing their visibility and improve their communication with the global capital markets," said Rodrigo Alves, president of the MZ Group Latin America. "We are very excited about this new challenge," added Rodrigo Alves.

Together, Kevin, Paul and Annabel have 60 years of experience in capital markets and investor relations in Australia. Having built strong relationships with analysts, bankers, corporate officers and investors domiciled in Australia, Kevin, Paul and Annabel have deep knowledge of the needs of these companies.

"MZ Group is facing an incredible opportunity to offer differentiated services and value added services to Australian companies," says Kevin Russeth, Senior Vice President of MZ Group in Australia. "With its global presence and a history sturdy, MZ Group also provides a safe solution for public and private companies wishing to improve their performance in the area of investor relations. Instead of competing directly with local providers, the MZ Group Australia will work closely with strategic partners and internal teams existing investor relations, in order to maximize the return to shareholders."

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Vasseti Plc (FRA:1VS) In Final Stages To Complete Its First Phase Of Thailand Telecommunication Network

newsroom@abnnewswire.net — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:57:23 GMT

Vasseti (UK) Plc (FRA:1VS) through its Thailand telco unit, is now testing its network infrastructure in several data centres within Bangkok as the phase one of V Telecoms' Bangkok Metro Core Network implementation. In addition, Vasseti will be connecting this core network to its global network hub in Hatyai as well as it Malaysian network in Padang Besar and Bukit Kayu Hitam at the Thailand-Malaysian border.

"We will have Bangkok and Hatyai connected to Kuala Lumpur and Singapore on a next generation optical transmission network that is developed in collaboration with our sister companies in Malaysia and Singapore. Upon commissioning of this high capacity network, we shall commence our offer for wholesale internet services (IP Transit)to various tier-2 internet service providers in Thailand as well as international leased circuits (IPLC) to other tier-1 telcos in Thailand", said Mr Ekarat Charoenphong, CEO of V Telecoms Connexia Co., Ltd. (Thailand). He added, "We also plan to offer premium retail/enterprise services to mainly large corporations as well as multi-national corporations based in Bangkok and other major towns/cities in Thailand".

According to the President and MD of Vasseti, Mr Ranjeet Singh Sidhu, through a telephone interview, the fibre optic infrastructure is being deployed in collaboration with some local players in Thailand to reduce time-to-market its products. He added, "We want to reach the market by next month so that we can capture the rapid growth in capacity demands that ISPs in Thailand is experiencing now. Our aim has always been to deliver best experience to the end users and we believe by having smart collaborations as the ones we developed in Thailand, will enable us to achieve our objectives sooner".

In addition, Vasseti is spearheading its regional network development through its flagship undertaking i.e. Vasseti South Asia Network or VSAN - which will link Hong Kong, Vientiane, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Jakarta through a unique terrestrial fibre optic network.

"As I have always said, Vasseti is committed to realise its dream to implement a regional network which will cover some of the most underserved areas in the world, which happen to be between three of the world's most promising economies i.e. China, India and Indonesia" added Mr Ranjeet.

While Vasseti is planning to bring these exciting developments to Thailand, it does not see itself as competing with the existing local players. According to Mr Ranjeet, "We are here to complement the fast growing domestic market. We believe with our presence, we will enable greater service quality and faster service delivery to the end customers. But we remain committed to work with any or all the existing players as we believe the market is big for now and will soon to grow even larger."

At the time of writing this press release, Vasseti has confirmed that it will be meeting various telcos and ISPs at a global telecommunication event called "Carriers World Asia 2013" scheduled next week from 27th and 28th March 2013 at Dusit Thani Hotel Bangkok.

Link: http://media.abnnewswire.net/media/en/docs/75054-vasseti-20130425.pdf

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Vasseti (FRA:1VS) Launched Global IP Transit Services and Joins the League of International IP-Transit Providers

newsroom@abnnewswire.net — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:25:33 GMT

Vasseti (UK) Plc (FRA:1VS), through its regional telecommunication divisions, launched its global IP-Transit services for service providers based in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia.

Mr. Sayed Mustafa Ali, Chief Technology Officer, reports, "The services are in the pilot phase and our commercial offer to the wholesale market will start next month. We have started taking orders and our IP Transit services include direct peering with other global players such as Reliance, NTT, Hurricane, Bharti, Tata, Cable & Wireless, and Starhub and to global content aggregators such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Akamai."

Mr. Sayed Mustafa elaborated that the company will offer both ipV4 and ipV6 flavours in its IP Transit offering and will be one of the most competitive providers in the region. "We can leverage our own domestic networks that are present in the region, it will be a win-win situation for the service providers and end users." Vasseti has spent a considerable amount of resources on R&D to ensure its telco subsidiaries at least meet if not exceed global customer expectations. "Apart from traditional IPT and IPLC service offerings, we can support customer needs including Global Routing Optimization, Routing Customization and Traffic Engineering," he added.

Vasseti has embarked on a vision to become a leading regional terrestrial fibre optic telecommunication infrastructure player over the next few years. The key strategy is its flagship Vasseti South Asia Network ("VSAN") which will have over 30,000 kms of fibre optic network through more than a dozen countries in South Asia.

"We have put forth a great effort and we will continue investing to realise the VSAN which will connect three of the most populous countries in the world -- which are among the least connected regions in the world. Over time, this region will drive one of the fastest growths in the global telecommunication markets," said Mr. Ranjeet S. Sidhu, President of Vasseti (UK) Plc.

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ABN Newswire Integrates PayPal Express Checkout Payment Gateway, Increasing Security and Simplicity

newsroom@abnnewswire.net — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 01:28:29 GMT

ABN Newswire has completed the integration of PayPal's Express Checkout to process payments by customers for ABN Newswire press release distribution and translation services.

Previously, ABN Newswire prepared payment invoices and issued these by email for new and existing customers of the Newswire Service. With the incorporation of PayPal's Express Checkout into ABN Newswire's website and internal systems, the process of receiving payments from customers has been simplified.

There is no requirement for purchasers of ABN Newswire services to have an account either with PayPal, or ABN Newswire. They can now simply pay online via PayPal's checkout process, securely and safely.

Tim Mckinnon, CEO of ABN Newswire commented, "This is an innovation in our online ecommerce system that provides customers with a very easy way to pay us, which reduces their costs, and in addition protects their credit card, bank details and financial information because there is no need for us to record that information. PayPal handles the transaction for both parties and financial information is kept safe. The benefit to ABN Newswire is a reduced amount of invoice and statement generation, and at the same time speeding up the payment cycle to improve cash flow".

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ABN Newswire Appoints Wedgewood Communications (New York) for Regional Representation in Canada and USA

newsroom@abnnewswire.net — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:56:31 GMT

ABN Newswire announces an agreement with Wedgewood Communications, a corporate advisory and public relations firm in New York to represent ABN Newswire to North American companies wishing to reach investors both domestically and offshore.

Wedgewood Communications, a subsidiary of Wedgewood Investment Group LLC. is a New York based Financial Communications Services company offering proactive investor relations program, financial lobbying, strategic management and market intelligence to micro, small and mid-cap public companies. Their experienced team is comprised of former brokers, traders, investor relations professionals, lobbyists and journalists. This group of investment professionals has built an extensive global network of retail and institutional investors allowing Wedgewood Investment Group to distribute public company news within the financial community.

Michael Westhaver, principal at Wedgewood commented, "We are very pleased to accept ABN Newswire as our partner in assisting our Clients to reach investors with timely information here in the USA and Canada, as well as leverage ABN Newswire's extensive network of global financial news publishers".

Tim Mckinnon, CEO of ABN Newswire said, "It is time for more companies to look at transparency and visibility in more than just a domestic market. "Going Global" is becoming a mandate, not an option. We are postitioned to assist companies in foreign languages, including news distribution, video content, and multi-language corporate websites. Partnering with Wedgewood is a significant step in helping companies in the Wedgewood network reach new potential partners and investors, as well as strengthening their domestic presence through the major financial news publishers we are affiliated with".

For more information, please visit Wedgewood:
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ABN Newswire Launches Live Corporate Video Webcasting on Amazon Cloud Services

newsroom@abnnewswire.net — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:18:48 GMT

ABN Newswire, Asia's leading multi-lingual corporate newswire has launched live corporate video and live presentations on Amazon's cloud based services.

Amazon is a leading provider of robust data hosting and infrastructure that supports the deployment of data storage, and reusable "instances" of virtual machines allowing rapid scalability to serve large amounts of data from a network of hosting centers around the globe.

ABN Newswire provides corporate video for a range of public companies, and distributes video data to professional financial platforms such as Bloomberg and Yahoo Finance.

ABN Newswire CEO Tim Mckinnon commented, "We see this opportunity to provide a reduced internal management of our video data by creating a platform of high network availablity, scalability and high bandwidth to give our subscribers high quality video data during live webcasts through the Amazon cloud based delivery system."

ABN Newswire hosts live CEO presentations in Sydney and New York at www.investorium.tv and produces multi language video content for financial analysts and investors in Asia.

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OTC Markets Partners with BNY Mellon to Launch First-Ever OTC ADR Index

newsroom@abnnewswire.net — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 16:23:13 GMT

American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) have long offered U.S. investors convenient access to global investment opportunities. Instead of establishing a brokerage account in a foreign country for the purpose of buying shares in an overseas company, U.S. investors can purchase a security that translates to shares of that company in U.S. dollars.

Today, a wide variety of ADRs — more than 1,400 — trade on the OTCQX(R), OTCQB(R) and OTC Pink(R) marketplaces, a fivefold increase from just 10 years ago. In the first nine months of 2012, 251 new OTC ADR programs were established. This includes companies in every industry from almost every country across the globe.

To highlight all the great ADRs trading on our marketplaces, this month we partnered with BNY Mellon, the global leader in investment management and investment services, to launch the OTCM ADR Index, the first-ever index of ADRs traded on the OTCQB, OTCQB and OTC Pink marketplaces.

The Index, which can be found under the ticker symbol "OTCDR" on most data terminals, is designed to benchmark the fast-growing and diverse number of ADR investment opportunities available to investors through their U.S. brokers. It is comprised of 535 large-cap international companies traded on our marketplaces. In all, 38 countries are represented across 10 industries.

Press Release From http://www.otcmarkets.com

Mining Risks Summit: Taxation and Royalties - How the Landscape is Changing

newsroom@abnnewswire.net — Tue, 4 Sept 2012 10:13:26 GMT

"Taxation And Royalties - How The Landscape Is Changing" will be the keynote session at this year's mining risk summit, with expert speakers from Control Risks, KPMG and TD Asset Management leading the discussion.

Regional views from Quebec, China, Africa, Latin America, Indonesia and Mongolia will be shared by a diverse group of experts, discussing business risks within the mining industry.

This year's Mining Business Risks Summit, organised by The Fraser Institute and CRU, will also include interactive workshops on the following topics:

- "Alternative Measures and Predictors of Commodity Price Volatility"
- "Implementing Sustainable Reporting Systems",
- "Corruption - the Rise and Rise of the Shadow Economy"

Dominic Halahan of CRU says: "A unique opportunity to discuss 'above the ground' mining business risks and their interrelationship. Delegates from mining companies, governments and other important stakeholders will discuss the social and political risks derived from building and operating mines to better understand how to mitigate these complex and interrelated challenges. The most fascinating event I attend by far!"

Register for 2nd Mining Business Risk Summit
TORONTO, Canada, 1-2 November 2012
http://www.crugroup.com/events/miningrisks/registration

About the Fraser Institute

The Fraser Institute is an independent Canadian public policy research and educational organization with offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal and ties to a global network of 80 think-tanks. Its mission is to measure, study, and communicate the impact of competitive markets and government intervention on the welfare of individuals. To protect the Institute's independence, it does not accept grants from governments or contracts for research.

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Marielle Gourlay (The Fraser Institute)
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ABN Newswire Expand Institutional View of Minerals and Energy Assets through 13 Language Data Feed to Thomson-Reuters

newsroom@abnnewswire.net — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:29:10 GMT

Thomson Reuters (TSE:TRI) (NYSE:TRI) has advised that the integration of ABN Newswire's 13 language investment news data feed for public company announcements has been completed and is now live.

"Reaching new markets and investors with opportunities to invest in a growing range of minerals and energy assets, ABN Newswire is very pleased to be integrated on the platform, and in our full range of languages. Now more important as international transaction volumes increase and become more transparent through delivery in local languages." said Tim Mckinnon CEO of ABN Newswire.

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Madison Resources Group (MRG) Announces Key Executive Appointments in New York

newsroom@abnnewswire.net — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 02:55:56 GMT

The Madison Resources Group has appointed the key executive team based in Manhattan, New York. Addressing the needs of public and pre IPO minerals and energy companies with capital and reputation management, MRG continues to accelerate growth for represented clientelle with the following expertise:

Victor Webb from international investor relations firm, Martson Webb International, brings three decades of investor relations, public relations and media experience to the group.

Michael Westhaver MD of the Wedgewood group of companies and Alan Loewenstein, MD of Wedgewood Investment Group LLC, with a core business of providing funding, market compliance, management and listings service, provide access to key financial markets and institutional equity in both Europe and the USA.

Tim Mckinnon, CEO of ABN Newswire LLC, brings his organization's real time access to the financial and media platforms, reaching the desktops of institutional and retail investor's desktops worldwide in 13 languages.

The Madison Resources Group nurtures in-ground assets through the entire life cycle to listed on-market commodities and allows the asset owners to focus on their core business of developing their mineral or energy asset instead of the many administrative, marketing, financial and compliance functions needed to operate.

"Marston Webb International has much to offer the Group in terms of our long standing position as a leading reputation advisory both in terms of industry and government", says Victor Webb, principal of Marston Webb International.

"The Wedgewood Group of companies offers a complete solution for companies in todays global market, whether it be for financing, M&A, listing, restructuring or IR. We are pleased to have formed a strong allegiance with MRG which completes our vertical integration model" said Michael Westhaver, Managing Director of Wedgewood.

Companies are welcome to approach the Madison Resources Group directly to discuss their requirements.

http://madisonresourcesgroup.com

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