SYDNEY, May 20 -- AsiaNet BANNER & ROHTO... HIGH POINT, N.C.: Banner Pharmacaps has established anexclusive technical and commercial collaboration with RohtoPharmaceuticals of Osaka, Japan to provide nutritional andpharmaceutical products for the Japanese market, according to apress release. www.banpharm.com RENAULT & NUVERA... PARIS, MILAN & CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: Renault and Nuvera FuelCells, Inc., an international developer of multi-fuel reformingand fuel cell technology, have signed an agreement tostrengthen their partnership and continue their collaborativeefforts in fuel cell research and development, a mediastatement said. www.nuvera.com MORPHOSYS & NOVARTIS... MARTINSRIED, MUNICH & CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: MorphoSys AG andNovartis AG have made a strategic collaboration to discover anddevelop antibody-based biopharmaceuticals as therapeuticagents, in order to address unmet medical need across a varietyof diseases, according to a press release. www.novartis.com www.morphosys.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will issue 5-year benchmarknotes amounting to a total of US$4 billion with a maturity dateof May 15, 2009 with payment dates each November 15 and May15. www.fanniemae.com EURAND UPDATE... MILAN: UBS will webcast a corporate update on Eurand onTuesday, May 25, 2004 at 8:30am EDT, according to a pressrelease. www.ibb.ubs.com www.eurand.com SMAL CAMERA... CAMBRIDGE: SMaL Camera Technologies, a developer ofelectronic imaging solutions and enabler of award-winningsuper-slim digital still cameras, has announced its newUltra-Pocket 5 rapid development kit for 3-megapixel creditcard cameras with color TFT display, according to a pressrelease. www.SMaLcamera.com JP MOBILE... DALLAS: JP Mobile, a leading provider of enterprise mobilitysoftware, has signed an agreement to immediately acquire thePDA Defense product from Asynchrony Solutions, Inc., a leadingprovider of collaboration, communication, and securitysolutions, according to a press release. www.jpmobile.com www.asolutions.com STARCORE MULTIMEDIA... SAN JOSE: StarCore, a leader in licensable processortechnologies, announced at the Embedded Processor Forum its newV4 architecture for use in mobile electronic devices, a mediastatement said. www.starcore-dsp.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)