May 3/PRNewswire-AsiaNetISSUE TO OVERCOME DEBT... DENVER: Newmont Mining Corporation will repay a portion of its outstanding debt by offering a public debt issue later this month, the company said today.SALES IMPRIMATUR OBTAINED... FREMONT: Sunrise Technologies International Inc, the refractive surgery company, announced today that it Korean regulators have given their imprimatur to the sale of its HYPERION LTK System via Seoul's Hye Kwang Technologies. NET LOSS REPORTED... DENVER: Newmont Mining Corporation today released its financial results for first quarter 2001, reporting a net operating loss of $5.5 million, compared to a net income of $10.3 million for the previous year.HEP B CAUSED AIDS?... LONDON: Medical Hypotheses, the scientific journal, has published a report by Dr Leonard Horowitz suggesting that Hepatitis B vaccines, partly developed from chimpanzees, may have triggered the AIDS pandemic.WATER SYSTEM DESIGN UNPLUGGED... WATERBURY: Haestad Methods, the provider of hydraulic and hydrolic computer models for civil engineers, today launched a new book, "Water Distribution Modeling", analysing the design of pressurised water systems.SOFTWARE SPANS NETWORKS... TAMPA: CommerceQuest, integration services and software suppliers, today released a new version of its patent-pending software, enableNet Data Integrator 4.0, allowing data movement and file transfer across diverse networks. MERGER ENDORSED... PLANO: PepsiCo Inc today said that its proposed merger with Quaker Oats had been "overwhelmingly approved" by the company's shareholders.VISTEON CERTIFIED... DEARBORN: Visteon Corp today announced that Moody's Investor Service had certified its debt rating, recognising its strong capital structure and earnings potential. (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).