SYDNEY, Jan. 28--AsiaNet/InfoQuest NAN SHAN... TAIPEI: Approved by the Vietnamese Ministry of Finance onJanuary 10, Nan Shan Life from Taiwan is going to establish arepresentative office in Hanoi soon. http://www.nanshanlife.com.tw DENDRITIC NANOTECHNOLOGIES... MELBOURNE: Dendritic NanoTechnologies Inc. (DNT), The DowChemical Company and Starpharma Holdings Limited of Melbourne,Australia, have reached an agreement. http://www.starpharma.com BANK KYOTO... KYOTO: The Bank of Kyoto, set up its Representative Officein Shanghai on December 15, 2004, was due to hold an openingreception at Okura Garden Hotel Shanghai on January 27, 2005. http://www.kyotobank.co.jp/ SANTOS VISION... ADELAIDE: Santos will invest a total of $153 million testingprospects within its expanding domestic and internationalexploration portfolio - up 21 per cent from the $126 millionspent on exploration in 2004. www.santos.com PERU AIRPORT... FRANKFURT: The new Peru Plaza at Jorge Chavez InternationalAirport (LIM) in Lima has been officially inaugurated by Peru'sPresident Alejandro Toledo Manrique and Fraport AG's executiveboard chairman Dr. Wilhelm Bender. http://www.fraport.de WP STEWART... HAMILTON: W.P. Stewart & Co., Ltd. reported net income of$21.8 million, or $0.48 per share (diluted) and $0.48 per share(basic), for the fourth quarter ended 31 December 2004. http://www.wpstewart.com GIZMONDO EUROPE... LONDON: Gizmondo Europe Ltd, subsidiary of Jacksonville,Florida-based Tiger Telematics Inc., has announced Mike Morganwill be joining the Tiger Telematics management team as VicePresident of Worldwide Sales for Gizmondo from the 1st February2005. http://www.gizmondo.com http://www.tigertelematics.com CANCER FIND... BASEL: New data have shown that adding Tarceva (erlotinib)to chemotherapy improves survival in patients with locallyadvanced or metastatic pancreatic cancer. http://www.roche.com CANCER STUDY... BASEL: A new study shows Avastin (bevacizumab, rhuMAb-VEGF)significantly increases survival in patients with advancedcolorectal cancer when used in combination with anoxaliplatin-containing chemotherapy regimen. http://www.roche.com PEPSI DIVIDEND... PURCHASE, N.Y: The Board of Directors of PepsiCo declared aquarterly dividend of $0.23 per share on PepsiCo common stock.The dividend is payable March 31, 2005 to shareholders ofrecord on March 11, 2005. http://www.pepsico.com CLINTON TALKS... DAVOS: Former President Bill Clinton said that he isorganizing a major annual gathering of leaders to addressglobal challenges, with the first meeting set to take placethis fall in New York City. http://www.ClintonGlobalInitiative.org BALL'S GOOD... MELBOURNE: Auto-Ref Inc. owner of sophisticated technologydesigned to bring more accuracy to the game of tennis,announced today from the Australian Open that it has receivedthe U.S. patent 6,816,185 for System and Method for JudgingBoundary Lines. IRANIAN ANGER... DAVOS: In an exclusive interview on Bloomberg Television,Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi stated that Iran rejects any"discriminatory" proposals to restrict its nuclear work. http://www.bloomberg.com TAKING STOCK... MELBOURNE: The Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report has addedStarpharmas American Depositary Receipts (ADRs)to itsNanosphere list of leading nanotechnology stocks. www.forbes.com/newsletters RESONANCE HEALTH... PERTH: Resonance Health Limited announced today that itssubsidiary, Inner Vision Biometrics Pty Ltd (IVB), has achievedU.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) marketing approval forFerriScan its novel non-invasive diagnostic test for liver ironconcentration. www.resonancehealth.com www.ferriscan.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)