SYDNEY, March 14--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
QUEEN'S BATON...
CANBERRA: The Queen's Baton Relay, the first step in building support across
the Commonwealth for the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games, begins its journey
in London on Commonwealth Day, 14 March 2005.
PRICE INCREASE...
WILMINGTON, Del.: DuPont Titanium Technologies Monday announced a price
increase in Asia Pacific for DuPont titanium dioxide grades.
http://www.dupont.com
TAKEOVER OFFER...
CLEVELAND: Cleveland-Cliffs Inc Sunday announced that it will not extend its
offer for the shares in Portman Limited.
http://www.cleveland-cliffs.com
http://www.Portman.com.au
LSI PRESENTATION...
MILPITAS, Calif.: LSI Logic Corporation Monday announced that Harmel S.
Sangha, Director of CoreWare IP Marketing, will present "LSI Logic Eases Your
Way onto the PCI Express Bus" at Denali MemCon Taiwan 2005.
http://www.lsilogic.com
KVM SWITCH...
TOKYO: Raritan Computer Inc. a leading provider of solutions for managing IT
infrastructure equipment and the mission-critical applications and services
that run on it,
Monday announced a new user station and new computer interface modules (CIMs)
to extend the management reach of Paragon II the industry's first
enterprise-class, stackable, Cat5 KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) switch.
http://www.raritan.com
NEW EXECUTIVE...
ADELAIDE: Former Merrill Lynch investment banker, Mr Andrew Seaton, has
joined Santos Limited as its new Group Executive, Investor Relations.
WEB BROWSER...
CHICAGO, Ill.: Novarra Monday announced that nweb, a mobile Web browser for
QUALCOMM's BREW solution, is now a top selling information applications for
U.S. Cellular.
http://www.novarra.com
http://www.uscellular.com
http://www.ctiawireless.com/index.cfm
TEST SOLUTIONS...
SHANGHAI: Nextest Systems Corporation, a leader in the manufacture of
automatic test equipment (ATE) for cost-sensitive semiconductors, Monday
announced that it will exhibit a range of test solutions at Semicon/CHINA.
http://www.nextest.com
MEMORY CARD...
NEW ORLEANS, La.: At CTIA WIRELESS 2005 held here Monday, the SD Card
Association (SDA) announced plans to finalize specifications for a new,
super-compact memory card this Spring.
http://www.sdcard.org
http://www.sdcard.com
FTSE4GOOD INDEX...
TOKYO: FTSE Group, the global index provider, Monday confirmed that an
additional 61 companies worldwide will join the FTSE4Good index series, as a
result of the latest six-monthly index review.
PHILIPPINE DONATION...
MANILA: The Swiss Reinsurance Company is donating PHP2.8 million (US$50,000)
to help rebuild homes for victims of landslides caused by December 2004
typhoons.
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of seven
securities issues amounting to a total of US$1,588.612 million on March 21 and
22, 2005 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount
redeemed plus accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
NEW OFFERINGS...
GREENVILLE, S.C.: KEMET Corporation Friday announced the addition of several
new high capacitance offerings to its commercial X5R ceramic surface mount
portfolio.
http://www.kemet.com
http://www.kemet.com/ir
NEW PLANT...
TRELLEBORG: The Trelleborg Group Friday inaugurated a newly constructed
plant for its automotive business area in Wuxi in China's expansive Shanghai
region.
PRODUCTION MILESTONE...
SAN JOSE, Calif.: Inapac Technology, Inc., the leading provider of
intellectual property and services for reliable system-in-package (SiP)
applications, Friday announced a high-volume production milestone for its
proprietary SiPFLOW platform.
http://www.inapac.com
FRAPORT FIGURES...
FRANKFURT: As expected, Frankfurt Airport's (FRA) traffic figures for
February 2005 did not grow as strongly as in the past.
http://www.fraport.de
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