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KUALA LUMPUR – BOH Tea, Malaysia’s largest tea producer, is searching for an advertising agency as it prepares to launch a new product range later this year.

SHANGHAI – Leo Burnett China has secured the US$3.5 million account for Zhe Jiang Mobile’s Olympic branding campaign, following a four-way pitch.

Saatchi & Saatchi in Mumbai have cracked an Ariel brief with this very interesting, almost subliminal, execution. The tag “no stains, no memories” is illustrated by stains that tell you the story of how they came to be. In the lipstick stain, there’s scenes of love. Neat. Two other executions inside.

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LONDON – Disney is to revive Enid Blyton’s Famous Five characters for a new TV series, which will see the offspring of Julian, Dick and Anne, George and Timmy the Dog, battle a pirate DVD bootlegging operation.

LONDON – Lewis Hamilton has starred in another Vodafone Formula One sponsorship film that articulates the concept of “making the most of now”.

Sorry about the blackout folks, Adland’s server has moved from one physical location to another with the rest of the big machines hosted by Memset last night – and I forgot to put up a post to warn you that we’d be offline during the night (for us). Just as we were getting ready to move, US traffic decided to march on in, so I’m sure a few of you wondered where the heck the site went. No matter what time I’d choose someone would see a blank nothing instead of the site – but at least I had a good nights sleep. 😉

Job losses are inevitable at PR agencies that focus heavily on IPO and M&A activity if markets continue to stall, according to senior consultants and analysts.

Heather Mills’ failure to stop her divorce judgement from being made public is down
to poor media handling on her part, according to a top legal PR adviser.

• Notorious German Third Reich U-boat base Valentin for sale to serious bidder – Times Online
  Germany’s notorious submarine factory is, however, up for sale to anyone interested in a building with 7m-thick walls, the largest surviving bunker from the Third Reich.

(TrendHunter.com) Serero Architects have won the open competition to redesign any of the Eiffel Tower’s public reception and access areas as a celebration of the 120th birthday of Gustave Eiffel’s original creation.

Serero’s project plans to extend the top floor plate of the tower by attaching a high performance …