GENEVA, Switzerland, May 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- Shocking Lack of Global Statistics Prompts Creation of First Global Resource on Hepatitis: The Hepatitis Atlas

GENEVA, Switzerland, May 19 /PRNewswire/ --

The World Hepatitis Alliance, a newly formed Non-Governmental Organisation, today called on governments around the world to do more to drive improvements in prevention, diagnosis and treatment for people living with chronic viral hepatitis B and C.

Although it is estimated that 500 million, approximately one in 12 people, are infected with either chronic viral hepatitis B or C globally(1,2), there is a serious lack of awareness and political will to tackle these diseases.

POMPEY, France, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Chromatide and Novasep have extended their partnership to develop large scale solid phase peptide and oligonucleotide synthesis technology. The resulting systems and equipment will meet the growing needs of biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries for more efficient, continuous flow instruments for gram to industrial scale production of high quality products.

MONTREAL, Canada, May 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- All Dollar Amounts are Expressed in Canadian Dollars

Petrolympic Ltd. ("Petrolympic" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: PCQ.V) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a binding letter of agreement (the "Agreement") with Ressource & Energie Squatex inc. ("Squatex") pursuant to which Petrolympic will acquire a 30% legal and beneficial interest in 36 exploration permits totaling 672,438 hectares in the St. Lawrence Lowlands, Bas St-Laurent and Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec (the "Transaction").

Upon signing of the Agreement, Petrolympic made an initial payment of $500,000 to Squatex in order to cover certain outstanding payments on the permits.

BERLIN, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Germany is a leading European market for flat panel displays. In 2007, nearly 4.5 million units of liquid crystal display (LCD) and plasma television sets were sold in Germany. Germany's large consumer market plus the country's strong R&D landscape and the presence of next-generation companies are attracting investors from all points on the value chain to Germany. Companies can learn about potential investment opportunities in Germany at the SID Display Week in Los Angeles, California, May 18-23, 2008.

OXFORD, England, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The college will hold a formal opening of the new centre on the 16 June from 6pm to 9.30 pm at the Milton Keynes Hilton. Please book, if you would like come contact charmian@oxfordcollegeofmarketing.ac.uk.

LOS ANGELES, May 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- Fuelled by a multi-lingual publishing infrastructure, OleOle.com provides football fans with a web platform that enables them to reshape online football coverage

DUBLIN, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- A young lady from New Zealand who discovered that chewing sugar-free gum made her seriously ill has bravely agreed to act as a guinea-pig in an experiment in California. Abby Cormack, 26, hopes that the potentially dangerous tests, to take place next month, will show that the ingestion of aspartame causes an aberration of blood capillary and neuron function.

Multimedia News Release: http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/zsweet/32699/

This is the first time any human has voluntarily subjected themselves to such damaging experimentation to prove the correlation between aspartame and the resulting symptoms.

BARCELONA, Spain, May 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- Adds six clients during first four months of 2008

- Unveils new website to support the European market

Shared Service Week 2008 -- APEX Analytix, a leading provider of services and software used by shared services organisations to conduct accounts payable recovery audits, prevent payment errors and detect fraud, today announced that it has expanded its European customer base by signing six new clients during the first four months of 2008. The companies include leaders in the automotive, construction, defence, energy, food and pharmaceutical industries -- four of them ranked among the Global 1000.

LONDON, May 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- Program enables channel partners to help merchants cost-effectively monitor compliance with the PCI standard using nCircle's certified technology

nCircle, the leading provider of agentless security risk and compliance management solutions, today announced its PCI partner program to help channel partners increase their revenue by offering merchants a number of managed services to help their customers cost-effectively monitor and comply with the PCI data security standard. Partnering with nCircle, partners can ensure that merchants, regardless of their size and location, have access to the industry's most accurate and automated PCI scanning service -- the nCircle Certified PCI Scan Service(TM).

LOS ANGELES and DUBLIN, Ireland, May 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- The popular football blog and forum is extending its reach on OleOle's ground-breaking, global football platform

OleOle, the provider of the world's largest social media platform for football, today announced that it has acquired and integrated Arseblog (http://www.arseblog.com), the award-winning website focused on Arsenal FC. Readers can now find Arseblog's daily posts, breaking news, exclusive features, interviews and podcasts (known as Arsecasts) on OleOle.com.