SYDNEY, April 2 -- AsiaNet
CHINA OPERATIONS...
YAKUM: Wireline and broadband solution provider Metalink Ltd. announced new appointments to its sales and marketing team in China, with the hiring of a sales manager and marketing manager.
www.metalinkBB.com
SYNDICATED LOAN...
RIO DE JANEIRO: Companhia Vale do Rio Doce has obtained a seven-year syndicated loan in the amount of US$ 300 million, the company announced.
http://www.cvrd.com.br
MEDICAL DISTRIBUTOR...
RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif: Applied Medical Resources Corporation announced the acquisition of Gembro Pty Ltd, a privately held Australian company specialising in distribution of medical and surgical healthcare products.
http://www.appliedmedical.com
FASHION INDUSTRY...
STOCKHOLM: Intentia International AB reports that 2003 was yet another year in which the company recorded a number of strategic wins in the fashion industry.
http://www.intentia.com
CUSTOMER FOCUS...
STOCKHOLM: Intentia International AB announced the appointment of Lars Procheus as Chief Marketing Officer and Henrik Billgren as President of Intentia Research and Development.
http://www.intentia.com
SOLAR TOWER...
MELBOURNE: US Solar Tower developer, SolarMission Technologies, Inc. and Australian Solar Tower developer EnviroMission Limited, said they have accepted an invitation from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, Energy Club, to present an overview of the technology to student members and invited guests on 1 April, 2004 in Palo Alto.
www.solarmissiontechnologies.com
www.enviromission.com.au
DANA FOUNDING...
TOLEDO: Dana Corporation, a manufacturer of products and systems for the vehicular industry, today celebrates its founding on April 1, 1904.
http://www.dana.com
MUSICNET OFFICE...
NEW YORK: Ellie Hirschhorn, General Manager and Executive Vice President of MusicNet, the world's leading online music service provider, today announced the opening of an office in the UK to handle the Company's international expansion efforts.
http://www.musicnet.com
SERVICE PROVIDER...
SINGAPORE: Asia's largest telco-independent Internet Communications Service Provider, Pacific Internet or PacNet announced that its subsidiary in the Philippines was awarded the prestigious National Consumers Excellence Awards as the Most Outstanding Internet Service Provider at the 19th Parangal ng Bayan Foundation Inc. Awards.
www.pacnet.com.
VVALUE PRICING...
HONG KONG: MoneyGram Payment Systems, Inc. introduced simple, value pricing on April 1, 2004 for money transfers sent from Taiwan to China.
www.moneygram.com
TECHTRONIC INDUSTRIES:
HONG KONG: Techtronic Industries Co. Ltd. will hold a conference call on 7 April, following the release of its 2003 annual results, the company said in a release.
www.tti.com.hk
ACQUISITION PROPOSAL...
HONG KONG: Board of Directors of DF China Technology, Inc. Announced that on March 30, 2004, it received a letter from the Board of DICHAIN Holdings unanimously passing the Board resolution to accept the proposal on the acquisition of 12.69% of the equity of DICHAIN Software, a subsidiary of DICHAIN Holdings.
www.dichain.com
VIDEO ENCODING...
TAIPEI: CyberLink Corp., a developer of digital video software and training solutions, announced the introduction of InstantMPEG, technology that saves hard disk space and time during real-time conversion of digital video (DV) into MPEG files.
http://www.gocyberlink.com/
PHARMACEUTICAL AGREEMENT...
LEWISTON: LAM Pharmaceutical, Corp. announced today that it has signed an agreement with China National Pharmaceutical Foreign Trade Corporation (Sinopharm Foreign Trade), a sales arm of China's largest pharmaceutical firm, China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm Group), for the distribution of LAM's IPM Wound Gel throughout China.
http://www.lampharm.com
http://www.sino-pharm.com
IMAGING BARRIER...
HILLSBORO: FEI Company announced today that scientists at the company's nanotechnology center have broken the one Angstrom image resolution barrier with a 200kV transmission electron microscope (TEM).
www.feicompany.com
PRODUCT RELEASES...
GREENVILE: KEMET Corporation (NYSE: KEM) announced today the addition of 67 new parts to its tantalum Mn02 and organic tantalum polymer KO-CAP series.
http://www.KEMET.com
NEW CEO...
NEWARK, Calif: Barcelona Design, Inc. announced the appointment of Ariel Sella as chief executive officer of the company, replacing Thomas Heydler. Sella -- previously executive vice president of products.
www.barcelonadesign.com
SATELLITE VIDEO...
BEIJING: On2 Technologies, Inc., The Duck Corporation today announced that it has signed a contract with China Netcom Communication International Corporation for use of On2's VP6.2 video codec and TrueCast servers for the broadcast of video via satellite and the Internet for educational and cultural projects in China.
http://www.on2.com
SINGAPORE OFFICE...
LONGMONT: DigitalGlobe, the leader in high-resolution commercial satellite imagery, announced plans for DigitalGlobe Asia, a sales and support office to be located in Singapore.
http://www.digitalglobe.com
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