NORWICH, England, December 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- Less Than Half a Year Under New Ownership, Turnover for 2007 Expected to Increase by 34% on an Annual Basis

- Well Positioned for 2008 Thanks to Boosted Incoming Orders

- ATB CEO Christian Schmidt: "Turnaround is Truly Outstanding and was Achieved in far Shorter Time Than Originally Estimated"

Less than half a year under new ownership, the engineering company ATB Laurence Scott is well on track to achieve its former success. According to preliminary figures for the year 2007, the company expects to increase its turnover by 34% to GBP 18 mill. With an impressive flow of orders solid growth is set for 2008.

PERTH, Australia, December 19 /PRNewswire/ --

Nido Petroleum is pleased to announce that the appraisal programme for Galoc, the first offshore oil development in the Philippines for almost seven years, has been completed and the interim results look very positive.

Data acquired from the appraisal programme is undergoing petrophysical analysis combining the log and pressure data with the recovered core, the results of which will be used to optimise the placement of Galoc 3 in the southern portion of the field.

Whilst work is still ongoing, the results to date have confirmed the findings of the predevelopment studies.

DALLAS, December 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- Kingdom sought trusted vendor for national ID project, e-government rollout to protect 27 million citizens

WASHINGTON, December 18 /PRNewswire/ --

Microloans to the poor around the world soared to 133 million last year, up from 13 million just nine years ago, according to a report released today by the Microcredit Summit Campaign, an initiative of RESULTS Educational Fund. The dramatic progress was also evident in the Campaign's focus on loans to the very poor, those living on less than a US$1 a day, which reached 93 million families in 2006, just shy of the Campaign's goal of reaching 100 million poorest. "We know that by today the 100 million poorest will have been reached," Microcredit Summit Campaign Director Sam Daley-Harris said, "but we won't be able to report those results until the 2007 data is collected, verified, and released at the end of 2008."

LONDON, December 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- " CT Screening has Value for Predicting Cardiovascular Risk and Colon Cancer"

Lifescan - the UK's largest provider of private, organ targeted CT screening - welcomes the statement published in the latest Report from COMARE that with reference to radiation exposure "cancer risk has not been demonstrated by epidemiological studies at doses below 100 mSv". The maximum radiation exposure when screening lung, colon and heart using the Lifescan low-dose MDCT protocols is less than 10mSv. This is also significantly under the maximum annual occupational dose of 20 mSv.

In other words this report suggests that low dosage CT scanning is not considered to carry significant risk.

Lifescan does not offer full body screening.

LONDON and NEW YORK, December 18 /PRNewswire/ --

Ecofin Ltd., a multi-billion dollar asset management firm, which invests in global utilities and infrastructure sectors, has gone live with the Execta(TM) Portfolio Management and Execution Management System ("EMS") from Tethys Technology, Inc. Ecofin has implemented Execta simultaneously in London and New York and plans to implement TotalTCA(TM), the pre-trade, real-time and post-trade transaction cost analysis offering from Tethys, in the near future.