SYDNEY, Sept. 14 -- AsiaNetFRANKFURT AIRPORT... FRANKFURT: Frankfurt Airport welcomed 4,924,415 passengersand handled 42,286 take-offs and landings in August 2004 - morepassengers and aircraft movements in a single month than at anyother time in the airport's history. Fraport AG - FRA's ownerand manager - also recorded the best August for airfreight,with 142,555 metric tons handled at FRA. http://www.fraport.de LYMPHOMA AWARENESS... NEW YORK: September 15, 2004, marks the first WorldwideLymphoma Awareness Day (WLAD). Celebrity Rob Lowe, whose fatherwas diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, is leading the globalcampaign to increase awareness of this life-threateningcancer. www.lymphomacoalition.org. PROFIT RISE... HONG KONG: SUNDAY Communications Limited today announced itsresults for the six months ended 30th June 2004, recording a 38per cent increase in net profit to HK$18 million, against netprofit of HK$13 million for the corresponding period of 2003. http://www.sunday.com http://www.irasia.com/listco/hk/sunday http://www.quamnet.com ASBESTOS VICTIMS... SYDNEY: Asbestos victims from as far away as Australia willprotest at James Hardies' AGM. Asbestos victims' support groupsfrom the UK and Europe will join them. A Special Commission inAustralia has found that James Hardie, the largest manufacturerof asbestos products in Australia has short changed theFoundation it set up to compensate its victims, by as much as$2 billion. SERVICE RELEASED... TOKYO: Mitsue-Links Co., Ltd. has released Web StandardConformance Service to business worldwide, which separatesdocument structure from visual styles in compliance with syntaxrecommended by W3C. http://www.mitsue.co.jp/english/ http://www.mitsue.co.jp/ PEACE, UNITY... NEW YORK: September 19, 2004 will be an historic day forpeace and unity. For the first time in history Palestinian andIsraeli children, who have spent years separated by hate,prejudice and fear, are coming together in Israel to say,"STOP, we've had enough, now it is OUR turn to be HEARD!" FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$170million on September 23, 2004, at a redemption price equal to100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. http://www.fanniemae.com DATACOLOR SPECTRUM... LAWRENCEVILLE: Datacolor announces the launch of DatacolorSpectrum, a powerful platform for innovation with keycapabilities for global color management in the retail andtextile industries. As a long-time leader in color managementtechnology for the textile industry, the Swiss-held company haschosen to make the announcement and introduction of its newplatform at The American Textile MachineryExhibition-International. http://www.datacolor.com VENTURE CAPITAL... MENLO PARK: Bessemer Venture Partners, one of the nation'soriginal venture capital firms, today announced that DineshVaswani has joined its office in Menlo Park, California as anEntrepreneur-in-Residence. Dinesh comes from WaldenInternational, where he was a General Partner responsible forsoftware investments in Southeast Asia and also served asCountry Head for India. As an EIR, Dinesh will work with BVPGeneral Partner Rob Chandra to evaluate investmentopportunities in U.S.-India cross-border firms. http://www.bvp.com CM2010 DEVICE... MILPITAS: California Micro Devices today announced theCM2010, an Application Specific Integrated Passive device thatprovides a cost effective, single chip interface solution forVGA ports. The CM2010 is an optimal price/performance solutionfor graphics cards and the more cost sensitive segments of thenotebook and desktop PC markets. http://www.calmicro.com UHF DEVICE... HEILBRONN: Atmel Corporation announced today theavailability of its new UHF RFID IDIC ATA5590, named TAGIDU,that serves a very broad spectrum of long-range RFIdentification applications. TAGIDU can be used in a frequencyrange of 800 MHz to 1 GHz and is suited for worldwide use. Itsflexibility and the outstandingly low power consumption enableto achieve a unique read/write performance with extendeddistances up to 10 meters. http://www.atmel.com ATMEL'S TPM... BOSTON: Densitron, a leader in embedded PC products, haschosen Atmel Corporation's Trusted Platform Module forincreased hardware security in their new line of products. Likethe PC market, embedded computing applications, includinggaming, require higher levels of security. For this reason, thenew DPX-114 and DPX-115 products will use the Atmel AT97SC3201TPM chip. http://www.densitron.com http://www.atmel.com CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION... NEW YORK: Last night, Mr. Bernd Beetz, CEO of COTY Inc.,hosted a VIP Gala at the American Museum of Natural History'sRose Center for Earth and Space for the centennial celebrationof the world renowned beauty company. The evening coincidedwith the unveiling of Coty: Perfumer and Visionary published byEditions Assouline. http://www.coty.com APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED... SINGAPORE: STATS ChipPAC Ltd., a leading independentsemiconductor test and advanced packaging service provider,today announced the appointment of Wan Choong Hoe as ChiefOperating Officer. Reporting directly to the President andChief Executive Officer of STATS ChipPAC, Wan's mission is tobuild the industry leading world-class manufacturingorganization with best-in-class execution and service mindsetacross all plants. RESULTS RELEASED... LONDON: Results of the latest FTSE4Good index review arereleased today by global index provider, FTSE Group. A total of79 new companies worldwide have met the SRI index criteria andwill be added to the index series at close of business onFriday 17 September. 23 companies will be deleted from theindex on the same day as they no longer meet these criteria. http://www.ftse.com PENINSULA MOONCAKES... HONG KONG: The Peninsula Hotels has just introduced thePeninsula Connoisseur range of gourmet food and beverage itemsinto its hotels and Peninsula Boutique retail outlets.In timefor the Mid Autumn Festival, which falls on 28 September thisyear, The Peninsula is introducing its celebrated mooncakes -long a favourite in Hong Kong - into selected retail outlets inTaiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore. www.peninsula.com TOP RANKING... TAIPEI:In an ongoing commitment to its developer community,BEA Systems, a world leader in enterprise infrastructuresoftware, today announced top ranking for BEA in a J2EEApplication Server Survey conducted by The Middleware Companythat polled 1,148 middleware professionals. www.bea.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)--InfoQuest (PP)--