SYDNEY, Mar. 10--AsiaNet/InfoQuest JAPANESE SUBSIDIARY... AUSTIN - Ambion, Inc. announced Wednesday the formal openingof its Japanese subsidiary, Ambion KK, located in Tokyo,Japan. http://www.ambion.com CLEVELAND-CLIFFS OFFER... CLEVELAND - Cleveland-Cliffs Inc today announced that it hasextended its offer for all of the shares in Portman Limited(Portman) for four days. http://www.cleveland-cliffs.com http://www.Portman.com.au XYRATEX PRESENTATION... HAVANT - Xyratex Ltd (Nasdaq: XRTX), a leading provider ofenterprise class data storage subsystems and disk drive testand process solutions, will present at the DISKCON Asia Pacific2005 conference being held first in Bangkok and then inSingapore during the week of March 14th, 2005. http://www.xyratex.com http://www.idema.org NEW EXECUTIVE... CHICAGO - Aleri, a provider of innovative aggregation andoperational analytics software, today announced the addition ofBrian Ladyman as Executive Vice President of Sales andMarketing. http://www.aleri.com WASTE FACILITY... NORTHBROOK - PEAT International, Inc., a global leader inplasma-based waste remediation solutions, announced today ithas successfully commissioned and received governmentacceptance of a Plasma Thermal Destruction and Recovery wastefacility located at the National Cheng Kung University inTainan City, Taiwan. http://www.peat.com NEW MICROCONTROLLERS... SAN JOSE - Atmel Corporation, a global leader in thedevelopment and fabrication of advanced semiconductorsolutions, announced today the availability of five new highperformance, low power AVR Flash microcontrollers. http://www.atmel.com LOGISTICAL AGREEMENT... LONDON - Gizmondo Europe Ltd has signed an agreement withthe HDL Group, based in Glasgow, Scotland, for the delivery oflogistical services surrounding the retailing and customersupport of the new Gizmondo handheld multi-entertainment devicein the UK. http://www.gizmondo.com http://www.tigertelematics.com MICROFINANCE PARTNERSHIP... REDMOND - Unitus, a nonprofit organization that helpsmicrofinance institutions grow to scale, announced Wednesday apartnership with Bharatha Swamukti Samsthe, an organizationthat provides microcredit loans to the poor in India'sKarnataka state. http://www.unitus.com NONPROFIT PARTNERSHIP... REDMOND - Unitus, a nonprofit organization that helpsaccelerate the growth of microfinance institutions worldwide,announced Wednesday a partnership with the India-based TheActivists for Social Alternatives - Grama Vidiyal (ASA-GV). http://www.asadev.com/oldindec.html http://www.unitus.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide)