SYDNEY, April 12 -- AsiaNet
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of eight securities issues amounting to a total of US$6,982.363 million between April 19 to 22, 2004 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
BROADBAND ACCESS...
YAKUM: Metalink Ltd., a global provider and developer of high performance wireline and wireless broadband communication silicon solutions, Friday announced that NeoWave, Inc., a developer, manufacturer and supplier of fiber optics transmission and Internet access systems, will incorporate Metalink's long-reach Total-VDSL solution into its new set of broadband access products targeting high-growth broadband markets worldwide.
http://www.metalink.co.il
BSE TESTS...
ZURICH & BASEL: Prionics AG, the world leader in testing procedures for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or "mad cow" disease and Roche Diagnostics, the number one in-vitro diagnostics company in the world, Friday announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved the two Prionics BSE tests, Prionics-Check WESTERN and Prionics-Check LIA, for use in the United States' enhanced BSE surveillance program.
http://www.prionics.ch
IMMIGRATION CONSULTANTS...
TORONTO: The Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Thursday announced that the Government of Canada is amending the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations to require that paid representatives must be authorized in order to conduct business on behalf of clients when dealing with the Government of Canada in immigration and refugee matters.
http://www.csic-scci.ca
CNH CHAIRMAN...
LAKE FOREST, Ill.: CNH Global N.V. Thursday announced that Jean-Pierre Rosso has elected to retire from the company on the occasion of the company's Annual Shareholders Meeting of April 26, 2004.
http://www.cnh.com
STRATEGIC ALLIANCE...
HONG KONG & PLEASANTON, Calif.: The Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) has formed a strategic alliance with ASAT Holdings Limited, a global provider of semiconductor package design, assembly and test services, to cooperatively promote integrated circuit (IC) packaging and test related services in Hong Kong and China.
http://www.hkstp.org
http://www.asat.com
SINGLE CHIP...
TOKYO: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. Thursday announced the development of ML6191, a first in the industry single chip LSI for radio controlled clocks, that combines signal receiver, decoder and real time clock (RTC) functions onto a single chip.
http://www.oki.com
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