SYDNEY, July 14 -- AsiaNet/InfoQuest DAKA RECALL... HONG KONG: Daka Development Ltd. wishes to inform the publicthat the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has announceda voluntary recall of "Aqua Water Scooters" imported by CSKAuto Inc. of Phoenix Arizona, US. These water scooters appearto be a direct copy of DAKA's Sea-Doo Seascooter. www.daka-designs.com FRANKFURT AIRPORT... FRANKFURT AM MAIN: Germany's largest airport registeredcontinuing strong growth in passenger and freight traffic inthe reporting month. Frankfurt Airport welcomed well over 4.6million passengers in June 2005, up 3.9 percent on-year. www.fraport.de EXINDA NETWORKS... MELBOURNE: Exinda Networks has expanded into the NorthAmerican market, with the Melbourne-based global ApplicationTraffic Management firm appointing four major partnerships todeliver their QOS hardware in the world's largest market. www.exinda.com BOONTY COMPANY... NEW YORK and PARIS and SINGAPORE: The Boonty Company, adigital video game distributor, has just concluded aninstitutional financial package worth US$10 Million withRothschild Gestion, Spef Venture and the company's historicalinvestors: OTC Asset Management and Entrepreneur Venture. www.boonty.com TWOSPACE NYC... TOKYO: TwoSpace Co., Ltd., the Japanese developers of OfficeStorage Hub and other XML-based tools, announced that it willopen its New York office on July 19, 2005. The office is thefirst overseas branch for the company. www.twospace.co.jp/eng ASTHMA TREATMENT... PRINCETON, N.J. and ST. PAUL, Minn: BioWa, Inc. and AppTecLaboratory Services, Inc. announced that the two companies haveentered into an agreement whereby AppTec will providedevelopment services for BioWa's anti IL-5 receptor monoclonalantibody, a potential new treatment for non-allergic asthma. www.biowa.com FANTASTIC ANNOUNCEMENT... BELLEVUE, Wash: MFORMA Group, Inc., a publisher anddistributor of mobile entertainment, has launched a suite ofmobile products based on FANTASTIC 4, a new Twentieth CenturyFox motion picture. www.mforma.com MICREL INC... SAN JOSE, Calif: Micrel Inc has launched the MIC2206 a new2MHz PWM synchronous buck regulator with LOWQ mode and voltagescaling. www.micrel.com THAI COINS... OTTAWA: The Royal Canadian Mint has announced that it hasbeen awarded a contract valued at over $10 million to produce400 million 2 Baht Thailand coins. www.mint.ca CIO SURVEY... LOS ANGELES: Nearly half (46 per cent) of more than 2,000global executives surveyed believe that the Chief InformationOfficer "absolutely" has a role to play on a company's board ofdirectors, according to the latest Executive Quiz fromKorn/Ferry International. www.ekornferry.com www.futurestep.com www.kornferry.com CANCER DRUG... BASEL: Treatment with the cancer drug Tarceva in patientswith advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) resulted insignificantly longer survival compared to placebo (42.5%improvement) according to a landmark study published in the NewEngland Journal of Medicine (NEJM). www.roche.com www.gene.com GENE THERAPY... PALO ALTO, Calif: New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, WorldGene Therapy Markets, reveals that revenue in this industry isexpected to total US$150.0 million in 2005 and could reachUS$5,743.6 million in 2011. www.healthcare.frost.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)