SYDNEY, Sept. 14 -- AsiaNet
FRANKFURT AIRPORT...
FRANKFURT: Frankfurt Airport welcomed 4,924,415 passengers
and handled 42,286 take-offs and landings in August 2004 - more
passengers and aircraft movements in a single month than at any
other time in the airport's history. Fraport AG - FRA's owner
and 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 Worldwide
Lymphoma Awareness Day (WLAD). Celebrity Rob Lowe, whose father
was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, is leading the global
campaign to increase awareness of this life-threatening
cancer.
www.lymphomacoalition.org.
PROFIT RISE...
HONG KONG: SUNDAY Communications Limited today announced its
results for the six months ended 30th June 2004, recording a 38
per cent increase in net profit to HK$18 million, against net
profit 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 will
protest at James Hardies' AGM. Asbestos victims' support groups
from the UK and Europe will join them. A Special Commission in
Australia has found that James Hardie, the largest manufacturer
of asbestos products in Australia has short changed the
Foundation it set up to compensate its victims, by as much as
$2 billion.
SERVICE RELEASED...
TOKYO: Mitsue-Links Co., Ltd. has released Web Standard
Conformance Service to business worldwide, which separates
document structure from visual styles in compliance with syntax
recommended 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 for
peace and unity. For the first time in history Palestinian and
Israeli 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 principal
amount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$170
million on September 23, 2004, at a redemption price equal to
100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued
interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
DATACOLOR SPECTRUM...
LAWRENCEVILLE: Datacolor announces the launch of Datacolor
Spectrum, a powerful platform for innovation with key
capabilities for global color management in the retail and
textile industries. As a long-time leader in color management
technology for the textile industry, the Swiss-held company has
chosen to make the announcement and introduction of its new
platform at The American Textile Machinery
Exhibition-International.
http://www.datacolor.com
VENTURE CAPITAL...
MENLO PARK: Bessemer Venture Partners, one of the nation's
original venture capital firms, today announced that Dinesh
Vaswani has joined its office in Menlo Park, California as an
Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Dinesh comes from Walden
International, where he was a General Partner responsible for
software investments in Southeast Asia and also served as
Country Head for India. As an EIR, Dinesh will work with BVP
General Partner Rob Chandra to evaluate investment
opportunities in U.S.-India cross-border firms.
http://www.bvp.com
CM2010 DEVICE...
MILPITAS: California Micro Devices today announced the
CM2010, an Application Specific Integrated Passive device that
provides a cost effective, single chip interface solution for
VGA ports. The CM2010 is an optimal price/performance solution
for graphics cards and the more cost sensitive segments of the
notebook and desktop PC markets.
http://www.calmicro.com
UHF DEVICE...
HEILBRONN: Atmel Corporation announced today the
availability of its new UHF RFID IDIC ATA5590, named TAGIDU,
that serves a very broad spectrum of long-range RF
Identification applications. TAGIDU can be used in a frequency
range of 800 MHz to 1 GHz and is suited for worldwide use. Its
flexibility and the outstandingly low power consumption enable
to achieve a unique read/write performance with extended
distances up to 10 meters.
http://www.atmel.com
ATMEL'S TPM...
BOSTON: Densitron, a leader in embedded PC products, has
chosen Atmel Corporation's Trusted Platform Module for
increased hardware security in their new line of products. Like
the PC market, embedded computing applications, including
gaming, require higher levels of security. For this reason, the
new DPX-114 and DPX-115 products will use the Atmel AT97SC3201
TPM 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's
Rose Center for Earth and Space for the centennial celebration
of the world renowned beauty company. The evening coincided
with the unveiling of Coty: Perfumer and Visionary published by
Editions Assouline.
http://www.coty.com
APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED...
SINGAPORE: STATS ChipPAC Ltd., a leading independent
semiconductor test and advanced packaging service provider,
today announced the appointment of Wan Choong Hoe as Chief
Operating Officer. Reporting directly to the President and
Chief Executive Officer of STATS ChipPAC, Wan's mission is to
build the industry leading world-class manufacturing
organization with best-in-class execution and service mindset
across all plants.
RESULTS RELEASED...
LONDON: Results of the latest FTSE4Good index review are
released today by global index provider, FTSE Group. A total of
79 new companies worldwide have met the SRI index criteria and
will be added to the index series at close of business on
Friday 17 September. 23 companies will be deleted from the
index 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 the
Peninsula Connoisseur range of gourmet food and beverage items
into its hotels and Peninsula Boutique retail outlets.In time
for the Mid Autumn Festival, which falls on 28 September this
year, The Peninsula is introducing its celebrated mooncakes -
long a favourite in Hong Kong - into selected retail outlets in
Taiwan, 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 infrastructure
software, today announced top ranking for BEA in a J2EE
Application Server Survey conducted by The Middleware Company
that polled 1,148 middleware professionals.
www.bea.com
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