PARIS, December 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that it has been selected by China Telecom, China's leading telecom operator, to provide end-to-end communication solution for China Telecom and increase the capacity and coverage of its mobile voice and data network throughout the country. The contract was secured through Alcatel Shanghai Bell, Alcatel-Lucent's Chinese flagship company.

MUMBAI, India, December 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- Ipanema Partnership to Help Customers Boost Network Performance

Tata Communications, a leading provider of the new world of communications, today announced the launch of its Application Performance Optimization (APO) service to provide companies with end-to-end, network application management. Ipanema Technologies, a well-known WAN (Wide Area Network) optimization solutions provider, is one of the technology partners for this service.

LONDON, PARIS and NEW YORK, December 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Prime Source, a NYSE Euronext company, has chosen Asset Control's AC Plus financial and reference data management software to support the growing data needs of its independent valuation service. Prime Source will use AC Plus to bring its data management to a state-of-the-art level for the management of financial data sources and customers' portfolios.

Launched in February 2008, Prime Source provides financial institutions with a comprehensive portfolio valuation service covering a wide range of asset classes and financial instruments, from plain vanilla to the most complex structured products and illiquid securities.

THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, December 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- Market Introduction of Bilingual Profiles by Chinglish.com

The Netherlands and Hong Kong jointly host this year's Business of Design Week (BODW), the leading international design fair in Asia. For the occasion, Dutch internet company Chinglish.com was asked to develop Chinese-English profiles for all members of the official delegation led by the Dutch minister for foreign trade, Frank Heemskerk. The goal is to promote Dutch Design while showcasing a deepening understanding of China. BODW will take place December 8-13, 2008 in Hong Kong. Chinglish.com will present the new bilingual profile feature at the Dutch Pavilion in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center.

LONDON, December 2 /PRNewswire/ --

Romania and Bulgaria are currently the fastest growing countries within the Central and Eastern European (CEE) market for uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), as stated in a recent Frost Sullivan study. The process of joining the European Union in 2007 gave Romania the euro 3078 million in aid it needed to develop its industry, transportation, rural and environmental infrastructure and to boost its agricultural sector.

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CAMBRIDGE, England, December 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- BreastHealth UK Agreement With Spire Healthcare Offers New Diagnostic Tests

Women concerned about breast cancer will have access to a nationwide network of specialist BreastHealth UK (BHUK) clinics, following the announcement of a strategic collaboration between Spire Healthcare and BHUK.

BHUK offers comprehensive, personalised, private breast screening services. A unique offering is Digital Infrared BreastScan (DIB), which offers safe and non-invasive technology to support breast cancer screening in younger women. It discerns 'hot spots' in the breast, potentially caused by increased blood flow to cancerous tissue. DIB will be available in the UK exclusively from BHUK.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden, December 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- Moovbox M Series Mobile Broadband Gateway Deployed on RailAir Service for Internet Access and GPS Tracking

POZNAN, Poland, December 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- Deal Would Make Econcern a Major Player in Chinese Sustainable Energy Market

Econcern has announced from its Sustainable Energy Event, running alongside the COP14 in Poznan, agreements to invest EUR863m in onshore wind farms in China. The agreements represent over 720 MW of sustainable energy capacity.

NIEUWEGEIN, the Netherlands, December 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ballast Nedam company, CNG Net, has signed a cooperation contract with HTM Personenvervoer for the supply of natural gas to fuel its buses and for the financing, creation, operation, management and maintenance of a natural gas filling station. The filling station is designed to refuel 135 buses with natural gas at the HTM site in The Hague. The long-term concession contract has a contract value of well over EUR 50 million.

ARNHEM, The Netherlands, December 2 /PRNewswire/ -- ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international consulting, design, engineering and management services company, announced today that LFR Inc., a fully owned subsidiary of ARCADIS has been awarded a multi-million dollar Guaranteed Site Solutions(TM) (GSS) Environmental Services Agreement with Kinder Morgan Canada Terminals Limited (KMCT), a partnership for the Vancouver Wharves facility in North Vancouver, Canada.