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 (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)