June 13/PRNewswire-AsiaNetCONTENT COMPANY ECLIPSES COMPETITION... TOKYO: This week's anticipated solar eclipse in Southern Africa will be broadcast with the technical help of Internet Initiative Japan Media Communications, who will deliver the video content to its broadband content network, the company said today.AUSTRALIA'S ECONOMIC INDICATORS RELEASED... NEW YORK: Australia's economic indicators will be released by the Conference Board, the economic trend analysts renowned for drawing comparative business data for industrialised countries worldwide, at a press briefing at the Hotel Intercontinental, Sydney on June 19.KOREAN PRONG TO NETWORK MARKET... BROOMFIELD: McDATA Corporation, the open storage network developers, today opened an office in Seoul, Korea, its second largest market, saying that "having a physical office in Seoul will allow us to work more closely with our partners and system integrators to meet the Korean market's growing storage needs".LIFE SCIENCE GETS LIFT... PRINCETON: Quintiles Transnational Corp and Care Capital LLC will form a strategic alliance to provide life science companies with business and investment support, according to a joint statement from the companies today.FIRST EURO BOND ISSUE... QUEBEC CITY: The Quebec government today ran its first euro currency bond issue for institutional investors, raising its initial figure by 0.5 billion to sate an eager market, the province's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for the Economy and Finance Pauline Marois said today.THE FUTURE IS ELECTRIC... DETROIT: Electric cars would gain market share over their gasoline-fuelled counterparts if an equity partnership deal for the development of hydrogen storage devices between General Motors and QUANTUM Technologies Inc announced today, reaches its goals.RAILWAY LICENSE DEAL... BRISBANE: Several Australian and New Zealand railroads will be fitted with new sleepers, the wooden planks underpinning railway tracks, following a license deal between Oz-Tex Solutions and U.S company, TieTek Inc, according to a press release distributed today.SINGAPORE SITE SOUGHT... HONG KONG: CreoScitex Asia Pacific, the pre-press system developer, today launched its new Singapore office to service the "booming opportunities" in the region, a company news release said.ASTHMA TREATMENT POTENTIAL... CAMBRIDGE: Millenium Pharmaceutical today announced that its anti-inflammatory asthma and allergy treatment, LDP-977, has entered into phase II of a clinical trial, while a development, marketing and sales deal for Europe and Asia has been signed with Taisho Pharmaceutical.WORLD INDUSTRY CHOOSES ASIA TO MEET... WAKEFIELD: The Management Service Provider Association (MSP), a collection of international companies formed to shape and promote the industry's emerging market, today said it would capitalise on CommunicAsia 2001, the trade show in Singapore, to seek out market opportunites in the Asia-Pacific.EXECUTIVE MOVEMENTS:SAN FRANCISCO: e-Commerce technology specialists, the Brodia Group, today named Roger Connolly as vice president, global sales.FINANCIAL RESULTS:TAIPEI: ASE Test Limited, provider of semiconductor testing services, today said its unaudited consolidated revenues for May 2001 were down 32 per cent on last year, at $US 22.32 million, compelling the company to trim its second quarter forecasts by 20 per cent. (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).