SYDNEY, Oct. 13 -- AsiaNet GAS DEAL... ADELAIDE: Santos Ltd, Australia Worldwide Exploration Limited (AWE) and Mitsui & Co, Ltd have announced the formal go-ahead for the development of a new Australian gas field the Casino project in the offshore Otway Basin, Victoria. AUSTRALASIAN DOCTORS... SALT LAKE CITY: VISTA Staffing Solutions, Inc., a temporary physician staffing firm in the US, announced it has launched an international division. The new division initially will place doctors in temporary assignments in Australia and New Zealand. www.vistastaff.com/international ATMEL CORP... SAN JOSE, Calif: Atmel Corporation announced the update of its web site www.atmel.com to support Chinese language. www.atmel.com NEW CHIPS... SAN JOSE, Calif: Atmel Corporation announced the availability of two new PHY (Physical Layer) stand-alone chips from the Serial ATA (SATA) product family targeted for PC and a range of storage applications. www.atmel.com IT PROBLEMS... ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill: Chief executive officers and other business executives have revealed their views about problems they face with IT in the `IT Governance Global Status Report,' recently published by the IT Governance Institute (ITGI). http://www.itgi.org DIET BEGINS... TOKYO: On October 12, 2004, the 161st Session of the Diet was convened and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi delivered a general policy speech to a plenary session of the House of Representatives following the opening ceremony. FILE BACKUPS... CORONA DEL MAR, Calif: Warm and Fuzzy Logic has announced the launch of ShadowBack 1.0, a comprehensive file backup solution for home and small business users. http://www.WarmAndFuzzyLogic.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of 2 securities issues amounting to a total of US$50 million on October 22 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com BMW COMPLAINT... UITGEEST: The German car manufacturer BMW AG has ordered adult search engine AskJolene.com to immediately remove a number of results from its index and to blacklist the providers of the documents but AskJolene says it will not yield to the claim. http://www.askjolene.com FRONT PORCH... BOULDER, Colo: Front Porch Digital, Inc., soon to be known as Incentra Solutions, Inc., announced that it has made a strategic hire to accelerate its expansion into the Asia Pacific market. www.fpdigital.com IP ASIA... HONG KONG: International Paper announced the company plans to relocate the headquarters office of IP Asia Ltd. from Hong Kong to Shanghai. http://www.internationalpaper.com INTERACTIVE BROKERS... GREENWICH, Conn: Interactive Brokers LLC (IB) has launched Inter-market Smart-Routing for Spread Orders, a new service that supports spread strategies for equities and options traded across multiple U.S. markets. http://www.interactivebrokers.com PACVD SYSTEMS... SANTA CLARA, Calif: AKT, an Applied Materials company and a supplier of PECVD systems to the flat panel display (FPD) industry, has shipped its 400th PECVD system. www.appliedmaterials.com SPORTS BROADCASTING... SINGAPORE: ESPN STAR Sports recently renewed multi-year syndication deals in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar with terrestrial broadcasters Channel 3, BBTV7, VTV-3, TV5, CTN and Myawaddy TV respectively. EVANS GRANT... LONDON: Evans Grant Consulting has merged with Opus International Consultants. (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)--