LONDON, October 21 /PRNewswire/ -- World-Check, the leading global provider of risk intelligence, and eSum Technologies Inc, a leading e-business solutions provider in South Korea, have announced a strategic alliance that will offer a seamless solution for customer and identity authentication screening against the World-Check risk intelligence database.

eSum Technologies Inc. will market, implement, and support the integration of the World-Check database locally to deliver an effortless screening process for financial and non-financial institutions seeking to enhance their existing Know Your Customer (KYC), Customer Due Diligence (CDD) and Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) verification processes.

HALIFAX, Canada, October 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Proving Bigger Really is Better

Ocean Nutrition Canada Limited (ONC), supplier of MEG-3(R) brand Omega-3 EPA/DHA from fish oil to the food and dietary supplement industries is pleased to announce their capacity expansion. The US$19 million investment secures ONC's position as the largest fish oil manufacturer in the world.

The expansion of their world class molecular distillation plant in Mulgrave, Nova Scotia, Canada means a 100% increase in MEG-3(R) concentrate capacity. Through their joint venture collaboration with Alicorp Corporation in Peru, to build a second fish oil manufacturing plant, they have realized a 200% capacity increase in their MEG-3(R) 30% fish oil.

PORTSMOUTH, England, October 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- With Photo

Down Syndrome Education International has been awarded a grant by the Big Lottery Fund to test a structured language and reading teaching programme in UK primary schools. This targeted teaching approach offers new opportunities for young people with Down syndrome to further improve their language and reading skills.

The Big Lottery Fund has awarded a GBP481,000 grant to investigate the effectiveness of a focused and practical classroom intervention. The study, lasting 4 years, will be conducted by Down Syndrome Education International working in partnership with the Centre for Reading and Language, at the Department of Psychology at the University of York.

SANDVIKA, Norway, October 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- REC has entered into a long-term take-or-pay agreement for the supply of fine particulate silicon - or 'silicon powder' - from the FBR-process. The contract has a value in excess of USD 500 million (~NOK 2.9 billion).

REC has entered into a long-term take-or-pay agreement with a PV-company based in Asia for the supply of fine particulate silicon from the FBR-process, so-called silicon powder. Silicon powder has traditionally had low or negative value, due to storage and land-filling requirements. REC has developed technology to capture and package these fine silicon materials, which opens valuable commercial opportunities.

BOSTON, October 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Supports Brokers, Financial Institutions' Requirements for Reporting Publicly Traded Securities

Eagle Investment Systems LLC, a leading provider of financial services technology and a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon, today announced that its investment accounting solution supports the new provision requiring brokerages to report cost basis for any stocks traded in a public arena. This new mandate was included in the 2008 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (also known as the bailout bill), which was finalized earlier this month.

BEND, Oregon, October 20 /PRNewswire/ --

Bend Research Inc. announced today that it will independently offer unique drug-delivery expertise and technologies to outside firms in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

Bend Research will continue its 23-year collaboration with Pfizer but will also be free to work with outside firms using proprietary technologies developed jointly by the two firms.

These technologies include the spray-dried dispersion (SDD) technology (which increases the oral bioavailability of low-solubility compounds), controlled-release, multiparticulate, and pulmonary delivery platforms.

LONDON, October 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Further semiconductor device manufacturers, service software developers and financial services firms reinforce the global appeal of the Symbian Foundation platform

On the first day of the 2008 Symbian Smartphone Show, the ten initial board members of the Symbian Foundation (ATT, LG Electronics, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, Samsung Electronics, Sony Ericsson, ST-NXP Wireless, Texas Instruments and Vodafone) have welcomed the latest supporters of the Symbian Foundation initiative.

MANCHESTER, England, October 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Kooth, the pioneering advice and support service for 11-25 year olds, received the Local Government IT Excellence Award for Service Transformation at the Society of Information Technology Management (Socitm) Annual Conference last week in Newport.

The Kooth service helps vulnerable young people deal with a wide range of problems from alcohol and drug misuse through to bullying and depression. The free, confidential and anonymous service is staffed by a team of specially trained counsellors and advice workers, who also fully moderate the site checking the suitability of all the user-created content to make sure Kooth.com remains a safe site for young people to use.

LONDON, October 20 /PRNewswire/ --

Ventyx(R) today announced two company-sponsored workshops scheduled just prior to the E-Mart Energy event in Geneva, Switzerland. These two interactive, half-day workshops are complimentary and will be held at the Geneva Palexpo on the morning and afternoon of 28 October, 2008.

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The workshops are designed to provide the company's industry-leading, in-depth analysis of key energy industry issues and offer practical solutions for meeting growing challenges in the industry. The two workshops include:

AMSTERDAM, October 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Permanent Growth of DKV Leads to Professional Risk Management

- Overdue Payments Automatically Redirected to Atradius

- All Debts in Europe are Insured Against Insolvency

Atradius Collections, a business unit of credit insurer Atradius, provides DKV, market leader in Europe of international service cards in transports, with an international and automated debt collections system. DKV has installed an integrated order to cash solution, where all invoices more than 90 days overdue are subcontracted automatically to Atradius Collections. To manage the customer default risk DKV has insured the pan European portfolio with Atradius Credit Insurance.