Oct 22--PRNewswire/AsiaNetCANCER RIGHTS... SEATTLE: A $US 73 million license deal for a cancer treatment has been struck between CTI Technologies and Chugai Pharmaceutical Co for sale and development of the therapy in South Korea and Japan. Rights, royalties and development expenditures have each been addressed by the agreement, a media release outlined.MULTIMEDIA PROTOTYPING... TOULOUSE: Future multimedia applications on digital mobile phone platforms - 2.5 and 3G - would be prototyped by France Telecom on Motorola's DragonBall microprocessors to determine their capacity and flexibility, Motorola said today.OPTICAL POLICY... ATLANTA: Patients with a strand of the degenerative eye disease, subfoveal horoidalneovascularisation (CNV), could reimburse costs for the Visudyne treatment in the U.S and Canada, following the expansion of the national coverage policy by the Health Care Financing Administration, Novartis Opthalmics announced today.FUEL CELL CARS... IRVINE: General Motors' cars of the future would be powered by fuel cell technology developed by Quantum Technologies Worldwide, according to a media release. BONDS DELISTED... SAN JOSE: Media disk drive producer, Komag Inc, today said that Nasdaq had delisted its convertible bonds originally issued by HMT Technology Corporation and due January 2004.MEDICAL HONOUR... LONDON: The research team that discovered the oral Type 2 diabetes treatment Avandia, has been awarded the 2001 Society for Medicine's Research Drug Discovery Award, a news release has reported.CHINESE EXPORTS... HONG KONG: Six star companies of China's export trade have been honoured at the 2001 Global Sources China Exporter of the Year Awards, the awards' sponsor has revealed. Winners ranged from fields including biotechnology, chemicals, e-commerce and electronics, Global Sources said.PROSTATE CANCER... CAMBRIDGE: Millenium Pharmaceuticals and New York Weill Cornell Medical Centre today reported results from the clinical trial of a prostate cancer therapy, showing that side effects of the condition had been minimised. The findings were brought before the Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine's New Trends in Prostate Cancer meeting in Padova, Italy.OCEAN SCIENCE... HONOLULU: Ocean science and technology are intrinsic to the U.S. economy and defence, the Oceans 2001 MTS/IEEE conference in Hawaii November 5 will hear. The program will cover advanced measurement systems to underwater acoustics, a media release has said.ONLINE BUSINESS... HONG KONG: Users of Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) and WAP phone can now get access to timely market intelligence, services and online business resources provided by tdctrade.com, the company said today.ATM ROLLOUT... TOKYO: IBM Japan today said they have installed Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) in selected Lawson stores across Japan "to provide value-added, convenient financial services to customers."FINANCIAL RESULTS: DEARBORN: Automotive components manufacturer Visteon Corporation today announced a third quarter loss of $US 95 million, which equated to $0.74 per share, according to a company statement.(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)