SYDNEY, July 8 -- AsiaNet CHINATRUST RATINGS... TAIPEI, HONG KONG & SINGAPORE: Fitch Ratings, theinternational rating agency, has today affirmed ChinatrustCommercial Bank's and its parent Chinatrust Financial HoldingCorporation's foreign currency Long-term ratings at 'A-' (Aminus) and 'BBB+', respectively. WEBZEN EXPANSION... SEOUL: Webzen Inc. has announced plans to strengthen itspresence across Asia by establishing an overseas subsidiary inTaiwan. www.webzen.co.kr HOT DEBATE... SYDNEY: In the aftermath of the release of his newanti-American film, Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore was todaychallenged to a live televised debate by internationallyrenowned political analyst, Ilya Osadchuk. www.AmericaLiberty.com GM CONVERGE... DEARBORN, Mich: Carl-Peter Forster, the newly appointedGeneral Motors Europe president, joins leaders from Ford MotorCompany, IBM, Robert Bosch GmbH, Adam Opel, DENSO and Peugeot,to discuss trends and challenges in automotive electronics thisOctober at Convergence 2004, the world's premier automotiveelectronics conference. http://www.convergence2004.org ICTS EUROPE... AMSTERDAM: ICTS Europe Holdings B.V., a wholly ownedsubsidiary of Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide,has appointed Ashley Reeve to the newly created position ofmanager maritime security. www.ictseurope.com ONCE APPOINTMENT... MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif: The Open Network for Commerce Exchange(ONCE), a CommerceNet program, has elected Thomas J. Westbrook,Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of W3Net to serve as itsPresident. www.commerce.net DRESSING UP... MILAN: Giorgio Armani custom-designed the wedding attire forthe marriage of Mira Sorvino to Chris Backus, which took placelast Friday 2nd July on the Italian island of Capri. ZERO G... SAN FRANCISCO: Zero G Software, the experts in thedeployment and delivery of enterprise applications, todayannounced the immediate availability of InstallAnywhere.NET. http://www.zerog.com COLIN SHANNON... WILMINGTON, N.C: PPD, Inc. today announced that ColinShannon has been named to the newly created position ofexecutive vice president of global clinical operations. http://www.ppdi.com SPECIAL GLASS... MITTERTEICH: Schott-Rohrglas, one of the world's leadingmanufacturer of special glass tubing has recently developed twonew glass types to fit the needs of the LCD-TFT market. CHINA EXPERT... HONG KONG: China Expert Technology, Inc. today announcedthat it expects $6.1 million revenue and $1.5 million netincome for the second quarter of 2004. http://www.chinaexpertnet.com LJ INT'L... HONG KONG & LOS ANGELES: LJ International, Inc. (LJI), oneof the fastest-growing fine jewelry companies in the world,today said it exceeded its prior year's sales performance atlast month's JCK Show in Las Vegas. http://www.ljintl.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.)--InfoQuest (PP)--