Oct 12--PRNewswire/AsiaNet GLOBAL ENERGY DEBUT... NEW YORK: Chevron Texaco Corp, the newly formed global energy company, today celebrated its first day of business on the New York Stock Exchange, after stockholders of both companies approved the merger on October 9, a news release said.GLOBAL CARGO... FRANKFURT: The global cargo industry will suffer a temporary crisis but not structural change, according to Fraport AG, owner-operators of Frankfurt Airport. The oil crisis, Gulf War and the Asian economic crisis provide a watermark, the 12th International Air Freight Conference heard in Frankfurt.AFGHAN REFUGEES... TOKYO: Soka Gakkai today pledged US$ 100,000 to provide shelter and assistance to the estimated 1.5 million refugees expected to be dislodged by the military campaign in Afghanisatan, a media release reported today.INTERNET RESTRUCTURE... HONG KONG: Asiacontent.com Ltd. today announced the spin off of its Internet Solutions operations in Korea and Taiwan and the shut down of its Internet Solutions operations in Singapore, Hong Kong and China as part of a company restructuring strategy. ONLINE TRADING... HONG KONG: Boom Securities would offer its proprietary online trading infrastructure to retail banks and brokers under a new professional services division, the company said today.DEBUGGER SUPPORT... MOBILE: Accelerated Technology Inc and Tensilica today jointly announced extended nucleus support for "SOC" developers using Xtensa technology.CHINESE STORAGE MARKET... BEIJING: Brocade Communications Systems today announced the opening of its Beijing office, which will focus on "meeting the increasingly complex storage demands driven by an expanding Chinese economy, facilitating technology skill transfer to the local market, and expanding support services to Brocade partners and their customers", according to a company statement.TELEMATICS LAUNCH... LEUVEN: At a press meeting held at the Embedded Systems Conference in Stuttgart, Acunia NV, provider of software and hardware solutions for next-generation telematics, presented Wonka, a "cleanroom virtual machine" for the Java language, a press release has announced.ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING... TORONTO: Electronics manufacturing services provider, Celesica Inc, today said it had completed its acquisition of Omni Industries Limited, a diversified Asian electronics manufacturing company headquartered in Singapore.CERTIFICATION DEAL... ANN ARBOR: A partnership between NSF International and The Public Health and Safety Company will expand third-party certification for Taiwan and China-based customers, the companies said today.PAN-ASIA CABLE... SEOUL: Asia Global Crossing today said the northern ring of its East Asia Korean network had been completed on schedule. The East Asia Crossing would be the first privately owned and, upon completion, fully redundant pan-Asian cable system, the company said.NEW DVD-ROM... TOKYO: Toshiba Corporation has launched a new, smaller DVD-ROM drive that will support DVD-RAM, DVD-R and DVD-RW Read, according to a media release.FINANCIAL RESULTS: PURCHASE: PepsiCo today reported another consecutive quarter of double-digit profit growth, with comparable earnings per share increasing 13% to $0.48 for the third quarter of 2001, which ended on September 8.EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENTS: HONG KONG: Lehman Brothers today named Sherry Liu as Managing Director/Head of Investment Banking for China. The appointment is part of a company strategy to strengthen its Asian investment banking franchise, the company said. (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).