Jul 13--PRNewswire/AsiaNetBUSH ENERGISES INITIATIVE... MILAN: U.S President Bush's National Energy Policy initiative is gathering momentum with today's announcement from Secretary of Energy, Spencer Abraham, that Nuvera Fuel Cells Inc has been awarded $US 17 million over three years to research, develop and advance transportation-based fuel cells.INTERNATIONAL MATHS COMPETITION WINNERS... WASHINGTON: The International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO), the world's preeminent mathematical competition for high school students from over 83 countries, today announced this year's results from the nine-hour grueling test administered over two days, with the Chinese team claiming the gold medal and the U.S and Russia tying for second place.EC APPROVES LEUKEMIA DRUG... CAMBRIDGE: The European Commission has approved Schering AG's application to market a leukemia treatment across 15 European countries, a news release from the drug's joint venture developers, Millenium Pharmaceuticals Inc an ILEX Partners L.P said today. CAPITAL FOR OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY... SEOUL: NESS Display Corporation Limited, specialists in organic light-emitting diode technologies, today announced a US$15 million injection of venture capital to be channeled into research, development and marketing, from The Carlyle Group, an Asian investment holding company focussing on the wireless sector.BANK GOES UNIVERSAL... ATLANTA: Certegy Inc, formerly Equifax Payment Services, has finished converting National Australia Bank's card processing system to a universal, third-party platform called Based 2000, following an industry trend to outsource card processing to focus on core business, a press release has stated.SOFTWARE RESELLING DEAL... VENTURA: Vsource Inc will provide all sales and marketing services for Gateway Inc's products in Hong Kong and Singapore, opening retail stores and providing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Services, the company said.GENE SEMINAR SERIES... BETHESDA: InforMax Inc, the bioinformatics software company, and AxCell Biosciences, will host a seminar series in Asia, "High Throughput Research: Integrating Genomics, Expression, and Proteomics for Accelerated Discovery Research" beginning in Taipei, Monday 16 July.SOIL EXPLORATION RADAR... AMSTERDAM: A soil exploration product, the 3D Borehole Radar, launched today by T&A Radar, would provide "faster and improved quality of information", a company news release has said.WINZIP UPGRADED... MANSFIELD: WinZip, the Windows system interface providing compression format to download files, today offered a new, upgraded version, the WinZip 8.1 beta 1.FINANCIAL RESULTS: CAMBRIDGE: Biopharmaceutical company, Millenium Pharmaceuticals, today said it would webcast a conference call discussing the company's second quarter 2001 financial results on Wednesday 18 July. (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).