SYDNEY, June 18 -- AsiaNet WIDE NET... MADRID: The 1st Worldwide Internet Security Campaign hasbeen organized by the Internet Users Association and PandaSoftware and is supported by sponsors in over 50 countries whoare joining forces to help the initiative reach each and everyInternet user under the slogan "Ridding the Planet ofViruses". www.worldwidesecure.org LEXISNEXIS APPOINTMENT... NEW YORK: LexisNexis Group has announced the hiring ofMiyuki Suzuki as chief executive officer (CEO) and president ofLexisNexis Asia Pacific. www.lexisnexis.com GOSS INT'L... BOLINGBROOK, Ill: Goss International Corporation andHeidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) have signed andexecuted a contract for Goss to acquire Heidelberg's WebSystems business. www.gossinternational.com BUENA VISTA... BURBANK, Calif. & TOKYO: Akira Matsumoto has been named vicepresident and general manager for Buena Vista Games, AsiaPacific, the global interactive entertainment arm of DisneyConsumer Products. MIRIS THERAPEUTICS... ANDOVER, Mass: Mirus Therapeutics Corporation announced thatit has acquired exclusive rights to novel formulation/drugdelivery technologies from Formatech, Inc., also of Andover,Massachusetts. www.formatech.com MUTED DISCOVERY... CHARLOTTE, N.C: Goodrich Corporation, in conjunction withJET Engineering Ltd, has advanced the technology of the MD-80aircraft engine exhaust nozzles it introduced in 2003. www.goodrich.com POPULAR CHIPS... EL SEGUNDO, Calif: The semiconductor industry has hit thesweet spot in 2004, with supply and demand forces aligning togenerate strong growth, but not the kind of overheatedexpansion that led to the severe market downturn in 2001,iSuppli Corp. believes. www.isuppli.com DEMOLITION JOB... TORONTO: Restoration Environmental Contractors (REC) and RECDemolition announced that they have been awarded the demolitionof the 300,000 square foot plant, environmental abatement andequipment asset disposal project at the Weyerhaeuser Pulp andPaper Mill in Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, Canada. STRIKERS EAT... TAIPEI: Workers from the Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical,and Energy Workers International Union (PACE) ended theirseven-day hunger strike that was a protest against a three-yearlockout and environmental pollution by Continental CarbonCompany (CCC), a subsidiary of China Synthetic Rubber Company(CSRC) and Taiwan Cement. www.paceunion.org IDIRECT APPOINTMENT... RESTON, Va: In response to continuing growth in worldwidemarket share, iDirect has announced the appointment of KW Chanas Vice President of sales for the Asia - Pacific Rim region. www.idirect.net VALUE CREATION... CALGARY: Value Creation Inc. announces that the company willundertake an exploration and drilling program this comingwinter to begin evaluation of its extensive holdings in theAthabasca oil sands. HUANENG POWER... BEIJING: Huaneng Power International, Inc. announced tariffadjustments of some of its power plants. JILIN CHEMICAL... JILIN CITY & HONG KONG: At the annual general meeting ofJilin Chemical Industrial Company Limited held on 17 June 2004,the shareholders of the Company approved the 2003 report of theboard of directors, the 2003 report of the board ofsupervisors, the 2003 audited financial statements, the 2003profit appropriation plan, the remuneration of directors andsupervisors for 2004, the re-appointment ofPricewaterhouseCoopers and PricewaterhouseCoopers Zhong TianCPAs Company Limited as the Company's international anddomestic auditors. HI-TECH SOFTWARE... ALDERLEY: HI-TECH Software announced the release of a newversion of their HI-TECH C for 8051 with an integrated versionof the HI-TIDE IDE. www.htsoft.com SOFTWARE LAUNCH... ALDERLEY: HI-TECH Software today announced the release of anew version of HI-TECH C for MSP430 including an integratedversion of the HI-TIDE IDE. www.htsoft.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)