SYDNEY, Sept. 15 -- AsiaNet PAC-RIM OFFICE... NGEE ANN CITY: Management consulting and engineering firm R.W. Beck recently announced the opening of its RepresentativeOffice in Singapore, effective Sept. 15. Bill Reynolds, head ofR. W. Becks Energy Asset Consulting Practice says, With anoffice in Singapore, we will be able to better serve andsupport our clients in the Pacific Rim area, and be moreresponsive to them. http://www.rwbeck.com PRICE INCREASE... WILMINGTON: DuPont Titanium Technologies today announced aprice increase in Asia Pacific for DuPont titanium dioxidegrades. Effective Oct. 1, 2004, DuPont is increasing the priceof all titanium dioxide grades by US$100 per tonne in AsiaPacific. http://www.dupont.com ACQUISITION COMPLETED... READING: EnerSys, one of the world's largest manufacturers,marketers and distributors of industrial batteries, announcedthat on September 10, 2004 its Australian-based subsidiary,EnerSys Australia PTY Ltd., entered into an agreement toacquire First National Battery Limited, based in Brisbane,Australia. http://www.enersys.com APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED... HAMILTON: W.P. Stewart & Co., Ltd. announced today that JanJ. Spiering, F.C.A. has been appointed to the Board ofDirectors of the Company, effective immediately. Mr. Spieringis a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants inEngland and Wales and is the retired Managing Partner andChairman of Ernst & Young Bermuda, a firm which he joined in1979. http://www.wpstewart.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$50million on September 24, 2004 at a redemption price equal to100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. It will also redeem $US40 million worth of MTNRissues on the same date. http://www.fanniemae.com KOIZUMI PRAISED: WASHINGTON D.C.: American Council of Life Insurers'President and CEO, Frank Keating, praised Japanese PrimeMinister Junichiro Koizumi's postal privatization initiativeand the basic principles set forth in a newly-released plan bythe Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy for the privatizationof Japan's postal businesses. http://www.acli.com AGREEMENT SIGNED... MILAN: Eurand today announced that an agreement has beensigned with Recordati S.p.A. for the development of amodified-release formulation of lercanidipine , Recordati'soriginal calcium channel blocker for the treatment ofhypertension. http://www.eurand.com DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT... LONDON: Gizmondo Europe Ltd., subsidiary of Jacksonville,Florida-based Tiger Telematics Inc. (OTC: TGTL.PK), announcedtoday that John Lewis, one of the UK's top retail businesseswith 26 John Lewis department stores, has agreed to launch thenew, handheld Gizmondo device, games and accessories in amajority of its stores, as well as on-line. http://www.tigertelematics.com http://www.johnlewis.com http://www.gizmondo.com COST REDUCED... HEILBRONN: Atmel Corporation announced today theavailability of a highly integrated high-performance completeRF solution for digital cordless phones operating at thelicense-free 5.8 GHz frequency band. Thanks to their highintegration, low number of external components and easyhandling, the new devices will help to reduce manufacturingcosts of cordless phones by about 25 per cent, depending on thedesign. This solution also supports multi-handsetapplications. http://www.atmel.com FLASH MICROCONTROLLERS... SAN JOSE: Atmel Corporation announces five new AVR FlashMicrocontrollers that significantly expand the MegaAVR productfamily. These devices are designed to decrease powerconsumption and enable battery-powered applications. The AVRprovides various power management techniques including multiplesleep modes, exceptional C-code density, fast startinghigh-precision internal RC oscillator and high throughputarchitecture http://www.atmel.com LYMPHOMA AWARENESS... NEW YORK: International television and film celebrity RobLowe, who has experienced the impact that lymphoma can have ona family, is calling for people around the world to be aware ofthe disease, one of the least known and fastest growing cancertypes. http://www.thenewsmarket.com http://www.lymphomacoalition.org (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)--InfoQuest (PP)--