SYDNEY, Feb. 23--AsiaNet/InfoQuest PROMOTIONAL CAMPAIGN... AMSTERDAM - Heineken International today announced that ithas partnered with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and TwentiethCentury Fox to launch a world-wide promotional campaign for thenew John Travolta film "Be Cool", which releases in the U.S. onMarch 4th 2005 and internationally throughout March andApril. http://www.Heineken.com SANTOS RESULTS... ADELAIDE - Santos Limited today announced higher salesrevenue, profit and dividend for the year ended 31 December2004. SANTOS BOARD... ADELAIDE - Santos Limited today announced the appointment ofMr Kenneth Dean and Mr Christopher Recny to its Board ofDirectors. COLLABORATION AGREEMENT... MOUNTAIN VIEW & NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - Benitec, Ltd., aleading RNAi therapeutics company, announced today that it hasentered into a broad cross-licensing and collaborationagreement with the CombiMatrix group of Acacia ResearchCorporation. http://www.acaciaresearch.com http://www.customarray.com ONLINE CASINO... WILLEMSTAD - CasinoGames.com, one of the oldest free onlinegaming sites, has relaunched its site as a gaming portal foronline casino players. http://www.CasinoGames.com http://www.netmarketingnv.com BANCO WEBCAST... SAO PAULO - Banco Itau Holding Financeira S/A announces its2004 Results Webcast Wednesday, February 23, 2005 @ 09:30 AMEST. http://www.itau.com http://www.idmc.com.br/prnewswire/index.asp?Player_ID=97 FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C. - Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of 1 securities issue amounting to a total of US$125million on mARCH 4, 2005, at a redemption price equal to 100per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. http://www.fanniemae.com GIZMONDO SPONSORSHIP... LONDON - Gizmondo Europe Ltd, subsidiary of Jacksonville,Florida-based Tiger Telematics Inc., confirmed yesterday thatit will be a sponsor of the forthcoming MCV Industry Awards,which recognizes the achievements and successes of the last 12months in the interactive entertainment industry. http://www.gizmondo.com http://www.tigertelematics.com ATMEL KIT... ROUSSET & UPPSALA - Atmel Corporation and IAR Systems ABannounced the AT91SAM7S64-IAR Development Kit in support ofAtmel's recently launched AT91SAM7S-series ARM7(R)-based Flashmicrocontrollers at a fraction of competing 32-bit developmenttoolsets. http://www.atmel.com PROTOCOL STACK... ROUSSET & HALLE - Atmel Corporation a global leader in thedevelopment and fabrication of advanced semiconductors, andport GmbH, a German communications software company, announcedtoday an industrial-strength CANopen Protocol Stack for theAtmel AT91SAM7A ARM7-based microcontroller family withintegrated CAN. http://www.atmel.com COURT ORDER... SANTA CLARA - Align Technology, Inc. today announced thatthe San Francisco County Superior Court has granted a TemporaryRestraining Order against defendants OrthoClear, Inc.,OrthoClear Holdings, Inc. and individual defendants and formerAlign employees ... pursuant to a multi-claim lawsuit filed byAlign earlier this month. http://www.invisalign.com PRICE NEGOTIATIONS... RIO DE JANEIRO - Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, the world'slargest iron ore producer, concluded the iron ore pricenegotiations for 2005 with Nippon Steel Corporation (NSC), thelargest Japanese steel maker. http://www.cvrd.com.br MICROWAVE RADIO... RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - Harris Corporation andBroadcast Services Australia Limited Transmission Servicestoday announced that Digital Distribution Australia (DDA) haspurchased Harris' TRuepoint(TM) next-generation microwave radiofor use in its network. http://www.harris.com http://www.bsa.com.au NEW MICROCONTROLLERS... NANTES - Atmel Corporation, a global leader in thedevelopment and fabrication of advanced semiconductorsolutions, announced today the availability of a new family ofmicrocontrollers designed for lamp ballast applications. http://www.atmel.com HEART VALVE... AUSTIN - Medical Carbon Research Institute L.L.C. todayannounced the approval of the On-X Prosthetic Heart Valve bythe Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW). http://www.mcritx.com http://www.onxvalves.com HEDGE FUNDS... GRAND CAYMAN - More than 1,100 new hedge funds were createdin the Cayman Islands in 2004, marking a 100 percent increaseover the previous reporting period. http://www.walkers.com.ky DATA SEARCH... OSLO - Fast Search & Transfer announced today that NationalInstruments, a leader in virtual instrumentation, has selectedand deployed FAST Data Search 360(TM) to power the searchcapabilities of its newly unveiled corporate intranet andpublic facing Web site http://www.ni.com. http://www.ni.com www.fastsearch.com BALLROOM DANCING... MIAMI, Fla. - Living joyously at any age includes takingpart in activities that nurture the physical, mental, socialand emotional parts of our lives - that's why so many peopleturn to ballroom dancing and Arthur Murray. http://www.arthurmurray.com GOLF TOURNAMENT... SHANGHAI - Three more top international golfers, worldnumber six Sergio Garcia, Korean number one Choi Kyoung-ju andChina's leading player Zhang Lian-wei, have confirmed theirparticipation at this year's US$2.35 million Johnnie WalkerClassic at the prestigious Pine Valley Golf Resort and CountryClub in Beijing from April 21 to 24. GLOBAL TREND... TEL AVIV - RAD Data Communications, the industry leader inlegacy-over-packet switched networks, has detected a growingglobal trend towards circuit emulation solutions overpacket-switched IP, Ethernet and MPLS backbones. http://www.rad.com PEACE PRIZE... TOKYO - The Niwano Peace Foundation has decided to award thetwenty-second Niwano Peace Prize to the Catholic theologian,Dr. Hans Kung, 76, president of the Global Ethic Foundation inGermany and Switzerland. http://www.npf.or.jp/npf/index_e.html (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. 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