SYDNEY, Aug. 3--AsiaNet/InfoQuest BUSINESS CHECKLIST... SYDNEY - Leading business improvement specialists, OliverWight International, has launched an updated checklist - TheOliver Wight Class A Checklist for Business Excellence, SixthEdition - for companies seeking to achieve global standards ofbusiness excellence. http://www.oliverwightasiapacific.com TICKETMASTER ACQUISITION... AUCKLAND - New Zealand Post and Ticketmaster, the world'sleading ticketing company, today announced an agreement wherebyTicketmaster NZ Limited will acquire the Red Tickets brand andcertain ticketing assets from New Zealand Post Limited. http://www.ticketmaster.com MARKETING STRATERGIES... HAMBURG - word of mouth marketing becoming increasinglyimportant in market strategising as numerous companies aretrying - and in some cases are being compelled - to reducetheir marketing and advertising expenditures. http://www.b-s-i.org/wom RARITAN PRODUCTS... TOKYO - Raritan today announced that its Dominion SXserial-over-IP product line supports Sun Microsystems newestoperating system Solaris 10 OS for all supported platforms. http://www.raritan.co.jp FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C. - Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of 1 securities issue amounting to a total of US$100million on August 12, 2005, at a redemption price equal to 100per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. http://www.fanniemae.com CNOOC BID... HONG KONG - CNOOC Limited announces that it has withdrawnits offer for Unocal. http://www.cnoocltd.com OPHTHALMIC KNIVES... ASCOT - Element Six, the world's leading developer andproducer of technical solutions based on diamond, announces thelaunch of a new range of diamond ophthalmic knivesincorporating a 'LuerLock' adaptor to facilitate reliable andeasy instrument cleaning. CHINESE SEARCH... LOS ANGELES, Calif. & SHANGHAI - Smarter.com announced that itwill be launching a Chinese version of its P4P shopping searchengine in Q4 2005. http://www.smarter.com http://www.smarter.com.cn BOOST CONVERTER... SAN JOSE, Calif. - Micrel Inc., an industry leader inanalog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet ICsolutions, has launched the MIC2296, a new highly efficientDC/DC boost converter. http://www.micrel.com COKETUNES LAUNCH... LONDON - Loudeye Corp., a worldwide leader inbusiness-to-business digital media solutions, announced Tuesdayit has teamed with Satellite Interactive, a New Zealand basedinteractive media company, to launch CokeTunes - a Coca-Colabranded digital music service for the New Zealand market. http://www.loudeye.com INTERTEK ACQUISITION... HOUSTON, Texas & PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Intertek Caleb Brett, a division ofIntertek Group plc, a leading global testing, inspection andcertification company, announces the acquisition of PARCTechnical Services, Inc., a petroleum and chemical process andautomotive testing services company, from the Shareholders ofGemini Holdings, Inc. http://www.intertek-cb.com http://www.parctech.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)