SYDNEY, June 22--AsiaNet/InfoQuest CHINA IMPORTS... HONG KONG: Investors should not automatically assume China has an insatiable appetite for commodity imports, according to Standard Bank, lead sponsor of Commodity Investment World Asia 2005. E2OPEN SOFTWARE... REDWOOD CITY, Calif.: E2open, the leading provider of software-as-a-service for visibility and control over distributed global supply networks, Tuesday announced that Agere Systems is in production using E2open software to improve the effectiveness of its global supply chain operations. http://www.e2open.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of two securities issues amounting to a total of US$75 million on July 1, 2005 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION... MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.: SearchGuy.com, Inc., an international provider of multi-category search and advertising services, is excited to announce it has taken another step in its international expansion and launched SearchGuy Japan. http://www.searchguy.com http://www.searchguy.jp SUPPLY PARTNERSHIP... SYDNEY: Integrated Research, developers of PROGNOSIS precise performance management solutions Tuesday announced a significant supply partnership with Prime Business Solutions, the UK market leaders in IP Telephony, IP Contact Centers and IP Video system integration. http://www.ir.com http://www.prime-uk.com TEST CENTER... MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.: Azul Systems Inc. Tuesday announced the opening of the Azul Center for Unbound Compute, the world's first enterprise test center dedicated to virtual machine-based applications. http://www.azulsystems.com NVIDIA EXPANDS... BEIJING and SANTA CLARA, Calif.: NVIDIA Corporation, a worldwide leader in graphics and digital media processors, Tuesday announced the opening of its representative office in Beijing, China. http://www.nvidia.com I-FLEX ACQUIRES... BANGALORE, India: Capco, the global financial services consultancy and IT solutions provider, and i-flex solutions, a leading IT solutions provider to the global financial services industry, Tuesday announced an alliance which leverages joint competencies to help financial institutions better measure and manage their enterprise risk. http://www.iflexsolutions.com http://www.capco.com SCULPTURE DISPLAY... LONDON: A two-ton bronze cow by Australian sculptor John Kelly hovers over the main stage at Glastonbury, England home to the world's largest folk/pop music festival. LECTURES BROADCAST... LINDAU, Germany: Five lectures from the interdisciplinary 55th Meeting of Nobel Laureates, involving holders of the Nobel Prizes for Chemistry, Physics and Medicine, can be viewed as video streams from 27.06.2005 on the Web site http://www.lindau-nobel.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.)