SYDNEY, Feb 3--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
BLOOMBERG TELEVISION...
NEW YORK: Expanding its presence in Asia, Bloomberg
Television launched its 24-hour business and financial news
network in Thailand, bringing Bloomberg's award-winning
programming to Thai investors for the first time.
http://www.bloomberg.com
FOOD CONFERENCE...
SHANGHAI: The Chinese food industry is rapidly maturing and
the gap between the quality level of the Chinese industry and
the global average is rapidly decreasing. This is just one of
the fast developments in China that play a role at the
international trade show Food ingredients Asia-China. From 1-3
March 2005 over 600 international and Chinese ingredients
suppliers do business with over 12.000 Chinese food
manufacturers.
http://www.fi-events.com
PRODUCT LAUNCH...
HONG KONG: Hong Kong-based Artificial Life, Inc., a leading
global provider of award winning mobile technology and
applications, today announced that it has signed a contract
with Singapore Telecom Mobile Pte Ltd ("SingTel Mobile"), a
leading regional telecom operator, to launch its innovative and
award winning 3G product "V-Girl-- your virtual girlfriend" in
Singapore. The launch makes SingTel Mobile the first operator
to introduce the 3G V-Girl game to that market.
http://www.artificial-life.com
http://www.v-girl.com
http://www.singtel.com
http://www.optus.com.au
NEW ADDITIONS...
RESTON: PRA International, Inc., one of the world's leading
clinical research organizations, announced several senior
management appointments and the election of a new member of the
board of directors.
http://www.sec.gov
http://www.prainternational.com
RECORD SHIPMENTS...
SAN JOSE: Komag, Incorporated, a leading independent
supplier of thin-film media for disk drives, announced record
finished disk shipments of 19.8 million units, net income of
$15.8 million, and diluted earnings per share of $0.51 on
$131.2 million of revenue for the fourth quarter of 2004.
http://www.komag.com
EXECUTIVE TRANSITION...
LAKE FOREST,III: CNH Global N.V. announced that President
and Chief Executive Officer Paolo Monferino will leave CNH
effective February 28, 2005. He will become Chief Executive of
Iveco S.p.a., the lead company of Fiat Group's Commercial
Vehicle Sector.
http://www.cnh.com
DECISION ANNOUNCED...
SOUTHPOINT: Federal-Mogul Corporation announced that Jose
Maria Alapont has been chosen to be the President and Chief
Executive Officer of Federal-Mogul, and that this decision has
been authorized by the Court presiding over the Federal-Mogul
Chapter 11 proceedings. Mr. Alapont also will join the board
of directors of Federal-Mogul.
http://www.federal-mogul.com
PRESENCE EXPANDED...
COLUMBUS: Assurex Global -- the world's largest privately
held risk management and commercial insurance brokerage group
-- has expanded its worldwide presence with the addition of
international broker Partners in Cork, Ireland; Mumbai, India;
Lima, Peru; Caracas, Venezuela; and North American Partners in
Chicago, Illinois; Birmingham, Alabama; and Greensboro, North
Carolina.
http://www.assurexglobal.com
NON-STOP SERVICE...
FRANKFURT: Effective February 3, Etihad Airways will
commence non-stop freighter services twice per week between
Frankfurt Airport and the carrier's home base in Abu Dhabi, the
capital city of the United Arab Emirates. Etihad will be using
an Airbus A300-600F on the new AUH-FRA cargo route. This summer
Etihad also plans to add daily non-stop passenger services
between Frankfurt and Abu Dhabi, using Airbus A330-200s jets.
http://www.etihadairways.com
http://www.fraport.de
LCD TVS...
SEOUL: MagnaChip Semiconductor announced that it is now
offering source driver ICs and timing controllers for large LCD
TVs. These products include a 10-bit driver IC with superior
color expression, designed to drive both 384 and 420 channels
to support the wide resolution common in large LCD TVs.
http://www.magnachip.com
BUCK REGULATOR...
MILPITAS: Sipex Corporation, a leading supplier of high
performance, analog integrated circuits, today introduced the
SP6656, a 400mA synchronous buck regulator with logic
controlled output voltage selection.
http://www.sipex.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal
amount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$130
million on February 12, 2005 at a redemption price equal to 100
percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued
interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
CONTRACTS AWARDED...
FARMINGTON: Otis has been awarded contracts totaling more
than U.S. $23 million to supply and install 169 elevators,
escalators, moving walkways and one central monitoring system
for Phase 2 of the Incheon International Airport in South
Korea.
http://www.otis.com
ZURICH OFFICE...
LOWELL: Fideris Inc., formerly Lynntech Industries, Inc., a
leading developer of innovative test solutions, announced the
opening of a new office in Zurich, Switzerland under the name
Fideris Test Solutions. The office will serve the company's
Europe, Middle East and Asia customers. The company also
announced the appointment of Dr. Pankaj Agarwal as Managing
Director in charge of its EMEA operations.
http://www.fideris.com
AVENTAIL EXPANDS...
SEATTLE: Leading SSL VPN technology company Aventail is
aggressively expanding its direct and channel presence in the
Asia Pacific region. The company has opened four new sales
support offices since the start of 2005 in Australia, Hong
Kong, Japan and India. These Aventail offices are providing
sales and technical support to the company's growing channel
base in Asia, which now numbers more than 50 partners across
the region.
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