HONG KONG, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Major First Step to Tap Alternative Energy Business in China

J.I.C. Technology Company Ltd ("JIC" or "the Company") to be renamed as Hong Kong Energy Holdings Limited ("HKE") (HKEx: 987), a wholly-owned subsidiary of HKC (Holdings) Limited ("HKC (HOLDINGS) or the "Group") (HKEx: 190), has initiated to invest in three alternative energy projects at the Lunaobao Wind Farm in Hebei, the Siziwang Qi Wind Farm in Inner Mongolia, and a pilot cellulosic ethanol project.

OSLO, April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Most people don't realise that sending an e-mail is just as risky as sending a postcard written in pencil. Protectoria was launched today, a user-friendly service available to anyone wishing to send confidential information via e-mail without worrying that the information falls into the wrong hands.

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LONDON, April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Dubai Bank, one of the leading Islamic banks in the market, has adopted Misys Trade Innovation to strengthen its trade finance operations in the rapidly growing Middle Eastern banking market. The bank will implement the solution to underpin and reinforce its trade finance function, allowing enhanced visibility and management of its day-to-day financing operations across its markets.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

MagKinetics Inc., a US development stage renewable energy company, will present their technology April 23 for "A system and Method for Creating Electricity from Moving Vehicular Traffic" at the Fairmount Hotel, Sheikh Zayed Road, 33rd floor Dubai, UAE at 14:00 and then again at the Fairmount, 33rd floor at 19:00- 22:00. The presentations will disclose the MagKinetics investment opportunity and overall business plan. MagKinetics is searching for an investor that is financially capable, willing to be a part of changing the world, and interested in adding a new variable to the "Peak Oil Theory."

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CARLSBAD, California, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- WebDefend Deployed At PopCap.com To Help Safeguard Customers

LONDON, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Users of Townsend's RealTick execution management system (EMS) can directly route to pioneering dark pool for U.K. listed equities

Townsend Analytics (http://www.townsendanalytics.com), a leading provider of global multi-broker, cross-asset electronic trading solutions, is adding the recently launched, broker-neutral Euro Millennium dark pool from NYFIX to its extensive choice of destination offerings through Townsend's RealTick(R) EMS.

LONDON, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Every Year Thousands of Animals are Harmed, all in the Name of Research

LONDON, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

Liz Earle Naturally Active Skincare have been presented with an award from PETA Europe (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), where they have won 'Best Cruelty Free Skincare' for their 2008 PETA Proggy Awards. These awards highlight companies for their progress and commitment to creating high quality, cruelty-free products/services.

In 2001, religious fundamentalists destroyed two colossal, ancient Buddha statues in the Afghan region of Bamiyan. Behind those statues, there are caves decorated with artwork dating from the 5th to 9th centuries A.D and those also suffered from the destruction of the Taliban along with their natural environment, but recently they became the source of a major discovery.

Scientists at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) have shown that the paintings were made of oil, hundreds of years before the technique was “invented” in Europe. The results were presented at a scientific conference in Japan last January and are just now published in the Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry.

Red colobus monkeys in a park in western Uganda have been exposed to an unknown orthopoxvirus, a pathogen related to the viruses that cause smallpox, monkeypox and cowpox. Most of the monkeys screened harbor antibodies to a virus that is similar – but not identical – to known orthopoxviruses.

The study was begun in 2006 when Colin Chapman, a researcher at McGill University, invited Goldberg to collaborate on a health assessment of two groups of red colobus monkeys in Kibale National Park, in western Uganda.

Chapman, also an associate scientist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, had spent two decades studying the behavior and ecology of the monkeys. He wanted to broaden the study to include an analysis of the pathogens they carried. Wildlife veterinarians from the Wildlife Conservation Society helped collect the samples, and a team from Oregon Health and Science University, led by Mark Slifka, conducted immunological analyses to characterize the virus.

A new study has found that between 1983 and 1999, the death rate in women increased in a large number of the worst-off counties in the US, primarily because of chronic diseases related to smoking, high blood pressure, and obesity. As a result of this stagnation or decline in the health of the worst-off segment of the population, inequality in life expectancy across different counties of the US worsened.

Majid Ezzati of Harvard University and colleagues analyzed death rates in all counties of the US states plus the District of Columbia over four decades, from 1961 to 1999. They obtained data on number of deaths from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and data on the number of people living in each county from the US Census. NCHS did not provide data for subsequent years. They broke the death rates down by sex and by disease to assess trends over time for women and men, and for different causes of death.