SYDNEY, July 27 -- AsiaNet
FOOD RECALL...
AUCKLAND: Edmonds is voluntarily recalling two batches of
Edmonds Fielders Cornflour 300g as a precautionary measure.
This follows advice from a supplier that the cornflour supplied
to us and used in these products may contain lead above maximum
food standard limits.
INFRASTRUCTURE SOFTWARE...
TAIPEI: BEA Systems, Inc., the world's leading application
infrastructure software company, today announced the general
availability of BEA WebLogic Server Process Edition, designed
to help enable companies to quickly and cost-effectively
experience the benefits of service-oriented architecture.
www.bea.com
COAL SUPPLY...
BEIJING: Huaneng Power International, Inc. has signed the
"Year 2005-2007 Coal Supply Agreement" with Shenhua Coal
Trading Company. Pursuant to the Agreement, Shenhua Coal will
be providing to the Company with high-quality thermal coal
amounting to 9 million tonnes, 10.5 million tonnes and 11
million tonnes for the years of 2005, 2006 and 2007
respectively.
INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS...
WASHINGTON: The Special Libraries Association (SLA) has
formed a new chapter in Australia and New Zealand, the 59th
geographically-oriented network within its membership. The SLA
Board of Directors approved the motion to create the new
chapter during its meetings held last month in conjunction with
the SLA Annual Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
http://www.sla.org/
NEW HOTEL...
TOKYO: The tropical resort setting of The Republic of Palau,
famous for its pristine diving environment, will be the
location of a new Nikko Hotels International resort hotel that
is scheduled to open next summer, according to JAL Hotels
Company, Ltd., operator of the Nikko Hotels International
luxury hotels chain. "Palau Royal Resort," now under
construction, is expected to open in July 2005.
CONTRACT AWARDED...
MARKHAM AND STUDLEY: Fortis, a European top 20 banking,
insurance and investments group, has awarded a contract to
Allshare, the distributor in the Netherlands for Geac , for
Geac Performance Management software and related implementation
services. The scheduled "go live" date for the first phase of
implementation of the Geac software is mid-August 2004.
http://www.geac.com
WORLD CONFERENCE...
NORTH CAROLINA: The Ninth International Conference on
Electrorheological Fluids and Magnetorheological Suspensions
will gather scientists and engineers from around the world next
month in Beijing, China.
http://www.lord.com
SALE ANNOUNCED...
Boise Cascade Corporation announced today that it has
reached a definitive agreement to sell its paper, forest
products, and timberland assets for approximately $3.7 billion
to affiliates of Boise Cascade, L.L.C., a new company formed by
Madison Dearborn Partners LLC, a leading private equity
investment firm located in Chicago, Illinois.
http://www.bc.com/media.htm
http://www.bc.com
STIKINE GOLD...
VANCOUVER: Stikine Gold Corporation ("Stikine") may be on
the brink of finding the big sister of one of the world's
largest past producing mines. Diamond drilling at Stikine's
Sullivan Deeps Project, located at Kimberley, British Columbia
has passed a depth of 2,000m (6,560 feet) and has intersected
the geologically important 'Hiawatha Marker'.
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/mmnr/stikine/
www.stikinegold.com/
GRAPHICS PROCESSING...
CALIFORNIA NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leader in
visual processing solutions, today announced that independent
third-party testing confirms that the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra
and the GeForce 6800 GT graphics processing units (GPUs)
deliver faster performance than comparable competitive
offerings in Doom 3, regarded as one of the most
highly-anticipated PC games in history.
http://www.nvidia.com
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS...
BOSTON: Nearly 70 per cent of senior university
administrative officials from around the world expect an
increase in international students to their schools e-learning
programs, according to a new survey. The survey, conducted by
Acadient, a leading developer and distributor of online
education for higher education, shows that administrators
expect the increase to come from students in Asia specifically
China, Malaysia and India.
http://www.acadient.com
FINANCIAL RESULTS...
TOKYO: Trend Micro, a leader in network antivirus and
Internet content security software and services, today
announced that the forecast of consolidated financial results
for the second quarter of the fiscal year 2004, is revised.
www.trendmicro.com
RECORD NUMBERS...
TOKYO: Ric Telecom Co., Ltd. and E. J. Krause & Associates,
Inc. were pleased to announce today the number of attendees at
the first "Next Generation Wireless Technology Expo" and
"Wireless Japan 2004" held from July 21 through 23 at Tokyo Big
Site was 32,836 including a record-high 436 media
representatives from Japan and throughout the rest of Asia.
http://www.ric.co.jp/expo/wj2004/en/cust_index.html
PETROLEUM AGREEMENT...
OKLAHOMA: Syntroleum Corporation announced today that they
have signed an agreement to undertake a feasibility study with
Oil Search Limited ) for a gas- to-liquids (GTL) Barge in Papua
New Guinea (PNG). The conceptual design will include gas
processing to extract natural gas liquids (NGL) in advance of
the gas-to-liquids section that will utilize the Syntroleum
Process and would produce a nominal 20,000 barrels per day of
total liquids.
http://www.syntroleum.com
CHINA TRAVEL...
NEW YORK: IAC/InterActiveCorp today announced its entry into
the travel market in China through its agreement to invest $60
million for a 30 per cent interest in eLong, Inc., a privately
held online travel provider based in Beijing that operates the
websites eLong.com and eLong.net.
http://www.iac.com
http://www.eLong.com
http://www.eLong.net
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