April 25/PRNewswire-AsiaNet NEW SOY PRODUCT... TOKYO: Kyowa Hakko, the Japanese pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, will market a new super soy food ingredient, CSPHP, in the U.S and Europe, the company said today. SINGAPORE CENTRE OPENS... HONG KONG: WHEREVER.net, the Internet protocol communications services provider, today announced the opening of its Singapore Customer Service Centre.BROADBAND PARTNERSHIP... SUNNYVALE: P-Cube Inc has joined with TeleKnowledge in a project to share command of their broadband networks with their service provider customers.CHINESE TELCO CHOSEN... BEIJING: China Netcom Corporation, a Chinese telco, today said that it will roll-out Luminous Network's PacketWave Optical Access Switches in China's major metropolitan networks.INDUSTRY RECORDS ATTAINED... FRANKFURT: The German Machine Vision industry, producers of technology which enables machines or production units to "see", has grown by a record 28.4 per cent during 2000, achieving sales of 1.105 billion DM ($US 895 million). INTEL DEAL... SAN JOSE: Numerical Technologies Inc, marketers and developers of proprietary technology, today announced a lucrative, long-term cross-licensing deal with Intel Corp involving photolithography manufacturing for semi-conductors.GLOBAL SUMMIT... SINGAPORE: The global Localisation Industry Standards Association (LISA) and SMP Marketing today announced key planks of Singapore's Global Strategies Summit, to be held on May 2-4, 2001. CONTRACT WON... SAN DIEGO: Cymer Inc, the excimer light source supplier to semiconductor manufacturers, today announced that it has signed a contract with a major Korean company to supply its CymerOnLine product.STAFF PRO WINS... CARLSBAD: Callaway Golf Company today announced that its staff pro, Bruce Fleisher, won yesterday's Las Vegas Senior Classic. EQUITY STAKE... BEIJING: SOHU.COM today said Beida Jade Bird Science and Technology Ltd has taken an 8.63% equity stake in the company.EARNINGS RELEASES: HAMILTON: W.P Stewart & Co. Ltd today reported its first quarter earnings, posting a net income of $23.3 million. PURCHASE: PepsiCo has reported double-digit earnings growth for the sixth consecutive quarter, when the company's first quarter 2001 results were released today. (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated press releases for worldwide clients. Contact: www.asianet.com.au for full-text versions).