SYDNEY, June 11 -- AsiaNet EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENTS... BOSTON: John Hancock's two major companies will each receive a president and chief executive officer later this year as the company's current CEO, David F. D'Alessandro, retires from that post, and Senior Executive Vice Presidents James M. Benson and John D. DesPrez III are promoted into these new roles, a news release said. http://www.manulife.com AI SOFTWARE... QUEBEC CITY: Taac?laac?graphique L.C. inc announced it would begin selling Perfx Color Management Pro, a color management software based on a neural network technology that allowed the software to self adjust and make its own corrections on a real time basis. FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON D.C.: Fannie Mae announced details of a new Benchmark Notes issue. http://www.fanniemae.com/ CHINA SALES... SHANGHAI: Delphi Corp. China recently announced that its consolidated sales in China had reached US$650 million in 2003, increasing approximately 50 percent compared with the previous year. http://www.delphi.com/media BENCHMARK NOTES... WASHINGTON D.C.: Fannie Mae gave details of prices for the reopening of callable benchmark notes. http://www.fanniemae.com/ HEART IMPLANT... MILAN: CarboMedics announces the 500,000th implant of its CarboMedics Prosthetic Heart Valve. CarboMedics is the only heart valve manufacturer who can declare 500,000 implants with zero post-operative structural failures, a tribute to the safety and reliability of each CarboMedics product, a company statement said. www.sorin.com TERMINAL UPGRADE... SANTA CLARA: NVIDIA Corporation announced that ASI Corp. will upgrade 450 dual-display sales terminals with NVIDIA nView multi-display software and NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440SE-based add-in cards from EVGA.com. http://www.nvidia.com ASE REVENUES... TAIPEI: ASE Test Limited announced that its unaudited consolidated May 2004 net revenues were US$63.8 million, a new record for the company. Compared to prior periods, the May figure represents an increase of 105% year-over-year and an increase of 21% sequentially, it said in a statement. http://www.aseglobal.com KAOHSIUNG REVENUES... TAIPEI: Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. announced its unaudited consolidated net revenues and the unaudited net revenues for its packaging operations in Kaohsiung for the month of May 2004. http://www.aseglobal.com SUMMER DEAL... HO CHI MINH CITY: Lufthansa, the leading European airline with the most frequent flights connecting Asia-Pacific and Europe, is offering its Miles & More members from Vietnam an attractive deal to make their journey even more pleasant. Passengers booking a return trip to Europe will be able to enjoy a second get-away in Thailand at Lufthansa's invitation, the airline said in a release. INTELLIGENT MESSAGING... SYDNEY: eServGlobal Limited, a worldwide supplier of independent and flexible network intelligence systems, today announced that excelcom has selected the eServGlobal MessageMax product suite. http://www.excelcom.co.id (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)