SYDNEY, July 7--AsiaNet/InfoQuest GPS TECHNOLOGY... SYDNEY - Mio Technology, maker of a leading brand forhandheld GPS products, Wednesday launched its Mio268, includingthe latest high-sensitivity GPS reception system, in theAustralian market. http://www.mio-tech.com.au HEALTHCARE FORUM... NEW YORK - Healthcare Across Borders is the premierinternational business development forum dedicated to medicalbenefits and services for local national employees,expatriates, retirees and travelers in global markets. http://www.srinstitute.com/CH139 AIRLINE GROWTH... KITAKYUSHU - North Asia is set to capitalize on its massivepotential for low cost airline growth, according to leadingAsia Pacific advisory firm, The Centre for Asia PacificAviation. http://www.centreforaviation.com PEPSICO STATEMENT... PURCHASE, N.Y. - PepsiCo said Wednesday the assertion in theFrench magazine Challenges that PepsiCo had built up a stake ofabout 3 per cent in Group Danone was untrue. http://www.pepsico.com G.729 LICENSES... MONTREAL - The G.729 Consortium announced Wednesday that ithas changed its licensing policy and will now offer licenses touse the G.729 patented technology to end-product manufacturersonly. http://www.sipro.com PICO CONTRACT... SINGAPORE - Pico Group, a home grown Singapore's globalevent marketing company, announces a Pico led consortium'ssuccess in winning an approximately Euro 22 million overlayscontract from TOROC - the organizing committee for the WinterOlympic Games in Torino. BUCK REGULATOR... SAN JOSE, Calif. - Micrel Inc. , an industry leader inanalog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet ICsolutions, has launched the MIC2207, a 3 mm x 3 mm MLF(TM) 2MHz3A PWM buck regulator. http://www.micrel.com ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARD... GENEVA - Ecma International's ECMA-341 was the world's firststandard defining the requirements and recommendations for acommercially viable, environmentally conscious design ofproducts in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) andConsumer Electronics (CE). http://www.ecma-international.org ASIAN BONDS... SINGAPORE - ING Wholesale Banking, Asia has predicted thatinvestors in Asian US dollar bonds could expect to see doubledigit returns and profit from a series of surprises thataffected the Asian bond markets in the first half of theyear. http://www.ing.com/wholesale/index.jsp (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)