SynCo Bio Partners Wins Best Contract Manufacturing Organization 2009 ViE Award

AMSTERDAM - SynCo Bio Partners B.V. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), the cGMP manufacturer of clinical and commercial biopharmaceuticals, has won the Vaccine Industry Excellence (ViE) award for Best Contract Manufacturing Organization (CMO) 2009. This award was presented to SynCo at the Washington World Vaccine Congress on the 22nd of April and is a recognition of the excellent work by SynCo’s scientists and manufacturing staff on behalf of its clients over the last 9 years.

ARCADIS Results First Quarter 2009 Available Live Via Webcast

AMSTERDAM - Scheduled for Thursday, 7 May, 2008 11:00 AM (Eastern Time)

AMSTERDAM, April 28 /PRNewswire/ –

Dutch Fairytale Becomes Reality

AMSTERDAM - A Unique Global Traveling Amusement Park for People With Multiple Severe Handicaps and the Elderly Suffering From Serious Dementia is now Open to the Public

Breakthrough for Online Event Driven Marketing SaaS, E-Village Introduces Clang

AMSTERDAM - The Dutch market leader in online marketing software E-Village launches Clang today. This worlds’ first event driven marketing ‘Software as a Service’ is a unique mix of CRM, Campaign Management, and Email Marketing, all put into one application. With Clang, organizations can now present the right offer at the right time to the right customer. Clang is currently available in the UK, The Netherlands, Spain and Canada.

ARCADIS Wins Major Project Management Contract in Oman

AMSTERDAM - ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international design, consulting, engineering and management services company, today announced that it has won a major contract to provide project management services to the Brazilian mining company Vale (Companhia Vale do Rio Doce) for a large project in Sohar, Oman. The contract will be executed through a joint venture (on a 50/50 basis) with a local partner, W.J. Towell & Co. The contract totals approximately US$ 24 million. Further financial details regarding the contract were not disclosed.

Red Carpet Roll-Out for Cinema 21:9 Interactive Website

AMSTERDAM - Philips announces the launch of the exclusive ‘Carousel’ movie to promote the eagerly anticipated Cinema 21:9 LCD TV.

CyberTech Advances Compliance-Recording Leadership With Large Contract for Voice and Data Recording

AMSTERDAM - Global Bank Selects 6,000 Channels of Trading Floor Recording

- Deal Reflects Increasing Demand for Compliance Recording Worldwide

Kiadis Pharma Reports ATIR(TM) Clinical Data, Further Supporting its Potential in Mismatched Bone Marrow Transplantations

AMSTERDAM - ATIR(TM) Data Presented at the Annual EBMT Presidential Symposium

Biopharmaceutical company Kiadis Pharma reported preliminary clinical data on ATIR(TM) showing its potential in mismatched bone marrow transplantations. Data was presented by the company’s principal investigator Dr. Denis Claude Roy during the prestigious Presidential Symposium at the Annual European Bone Marrow Transplantation meeting (EBMT) in Goteborg, Sweden, on Monday, March 30, 2009. Only the 6 highest ranked presentations, representing the most promising new developments in the transplantation field, were selected for this Symposium.

EMCF Cuts UK Clearing Fees to 3 Euro Cents

AMSTERDAM - European Multilateral Clearing Facility, the European Central Counterparty (CCP), introduces a 40% fee reduction for the UK securities market effective April 14th as part of its strategy of price leadership in Europe

Twenty Elsevier Journals Voted Among 100 Most Influential Journals in Past Century by the Special Libraries Association

AMSTERDAM - SLA Centennial Observance Honors Cell, The Lancet and Other Key Elsevier Journals

Elsevier and Brain Mapping Foundation Co-Host 6th Annual World Congress of IBMISPS on Brain Mapping and Image Guided Therapy

AMSTERDAM - Program Focuses on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as Well as Other Neurological Disorders

Live Painting by Ayako Rokkaku at Art Fair Tokyo 2009 - Gallery Delaive

AMSTERDAM - “…I want to keep drawing for as long as possible”

At the opening and the weekend of the Art Fair Tokyo 2009, Ayako Rokkaku will perform a live painting session on a 2.20 x 7.00 metres canvas.

AerCap Holdings N.V. Announces 20-F Filing

AMSTERDAM - AerCap Holdings N.V. (NYSE: AER) today announced it has filed its annual report on Form 20-F, including its audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) in accordance with United States requirements. AerCap’s Form 20-F can be accessed on the Investor Relations page of the Company’s website at www.aercap.com, as well as on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Interested parties may also request a complimentary paper copy of the filing by contacting Peter Wortel, Vice President Investor Relations, at pwortel@aercap.com.

ARCADIS Presents Conceptual Design for Storm Surge Barrier to Protect the New York Metropolitan Area

AMSTERDAM - ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international design, consulting, engineering and management services company, today announced that it has provided an idea of what a storm surge barrier aimed at protecting the New York and New Jersey Metropolitan Region from severe coastal flooding might look like. The barrier is situated in the Verrazano Narrows, connecting the Upper New York Bay with the Atlantic Ocean. The ideas were disclosed in a presentation as part of a New York conference ‘Against the Deluge: Storm Surge Barriers to Protect New York City.’

Three Prize Winners Awarded in Elsevier’s Article 2.0 Contest

AMSTERDAM - “Thinking Outside the Box” Yields web 3.0, Nonlinear and Smartphone
Applications

The Naked Truth Revealed: World Class Photographic Exhibit Captures the Reality Behind Living with Psoriasis

AMSTERDAM - Psoriasis Patients from Around the World Come together to Bare Their
Skin and Share Their Stories for New Pan-European Educational Programme

Annual Results 2008 Fortis Bank Nederland: Net Operating Profit EUR 604 Million

AMSTERDAM - All businesses - Retail Banking, Private Banking and Merchant Banking -
made a positive underlying contribution to net operating profit. The net
result was EUR 18.5 billion negative, mainly as a result of the loss of the
transfer of the stake in RFS Holdings B.V. In addition, a provision of
approximately EUR 0.9 billion was created in relation to the Madoff affair.

The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates a Decade of Open Source Leadership

AMSTERDAM - The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) - developers, stewards, and
incubators of leading community-driven Open Source projects - announced its
tenth anniversary at ApacheCon, its official user conference, trainings, and
expo.

Elsevier Partners With Communispace to Launch Global Online Community

AMSTERDAM - Innovation Explorers Unites 300 Researchers From 69 Countries

Elsevier, the leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical
information products and services, today announced the launch of Innovation
Explorers, an online community of 300 researchers from 69 countries. Through
online activities ranging from facilitated chats to one-on-one interviews,
the members will help Elsevier identify, design and deliver relevant products
and services that resonate with and inspire research scientists around the
world.

Brazilian Federal Agency CAPES Expands Local Research Community Access to Scopus

AMSTERDAM - Elsevier announced today that the Brazilian Federal Agency for the
Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES) is expanding local
research community access to Scopus(R), the company’s flagship product and
the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed
literature. CAPES, which assists the Brazilian Ministry of Education in the
formulation of national policies related to post-graduate study, will be
making Scopus available to 200 universities and research institutes in
Brazil, up from 44 in 2007.

Albelli Launches Photo Book Service in the UK

AMSTERDAM - Albumprinter, Europe’s leading photo book provider, today announced the
launch of its consumer label, albelli, in the UK www.albelli.co.uk

MMO Life Relaunches MMORPG Community Portal

AMSTERDAM - Gamers Take the Lead in Redesign MMO HUB

AMSTERDAM, March 20 /PRNewswire/ –

Scopus Selected by the Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance (iFQ) to Analyze German and International Research to Establish Government Funding Policies

AMSTERDAM - Citation Database to be Used in New Competence Centre for Bibliometrics

Elsevier announced today that its flagship product Scopus
(www.info.scopus.com), the world’s largest abstract and citation
database of peer-reviewed literature, was chosen by the Institute for
Research Information and Quality Assurance (iFQ) to be used in the
development of its new German Competence Centre for Bibliometrics. The iFQ is
a scientific institute that was created by the German Research Foundation
(Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) to focus on assessing Germany’s
funding programs, and analyzing their global impact.

ECA Dismisses ‘Super League’ Rumours

AMSTERDAM - ECA Very Happy With Existing Competitions

The ECA Executive Board, assembled in Amsterdam for its regular meeting,
wants to dismiss the content of articles published today in some of the major
sports newspapers in Europe. These articles mention plans for a future “Super
League”.

Project Management Institute’s Global Congress 2009-EMEA to Be Held In Amsterdam

AMSTERDAM - World’s leader in project management research and career building meets
on 18-20 May 2009

AerCap Signs Two Debt Facility Agreements; US$846 Million ECA A320 Delivery Funding Facility and US$86 Million A330 Pre-delivery Payment Funding Facility

AMSTERDAM - AerCap Holdings N.V. (”AerCap”, NYSE: AER) today announced that
AerVenture Limited, its consolidated joint venture, has signed a facility
agreement with Calyon S.A. and other banks and financial institutions,
outlining the terms pursuant to which the European Export Credit Agencies may
provide guarantees on up to US$846 million of financing to commercial banks
to fund deliveries of A320 family aircraft under AerVenture’s forward order
with Airbus through 2011. This completes the remaining financing requirement
for the Airbus A320 family order of aircraft. The aircraft are part of an
original 70 aircraft order placed by AerVenture Limited in January 2006. The
European Export Credit Agencies consist of Coface in France, ECGD in the
United Kingdom, and Euler-Hermes in Germany. The loans are to be provided by
a syndicate of banks led by Calyon acting as Global Arranger and are subject
to customary ECA requirements.