SYDNEY, Aug. 4 -- AsiaNet/InfoQuest ING DIRECTOR... TAIPEI - ING Wholesale Banking, Asia today announced that ithad hired Phillip Chiu as Director, Head of Financial Markets,Taiwan. http://xprnnews.xfn.info/ing/phillip.htm LANGCHAO OUTSOURCING... BEIJING - Langchao and Microsoft have finished the build outof an Offsite Development Center located on Langchao's premisesin Beijing, expected to substantially enhance Langchao'scapabilities to perform outsourcing orders for Microsoft. BAC SECURITIES... CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Bank of America Corporation today pricedan offering of 17,000 capital securities to be issued by BACCapital Trust VII for sale primarily outside of the UnitedStates. http://www.bankofamerica.com GIZMONDO RELEASES... LONDON - Gizmondo Europe Ltd is delighted to confirm thismonth's line up on titles for release on the Gizmondomulti-entertainment handheld as Point of Destruction, ClassicCompendium, Ball Busters, EA SPORTS FIFA Football 2005 and SSX3. http://www.gizmondo.com http://www.tigertelematics.com MICREL QWIKRADIO... SAN JOSE, Calif. - Micrel Inc., an industry leader in analog, high bandwidth and Ethernet IC solutions, has launched the MICRF010, a new addition to the Company's QwikRadio family. http://www.micrel.com NETWORK EXPANSION... DENVER, Colo. - Virtela, a global network solutions company,announced Wednesday that Hitachi Information Systems, Ltd. ofTokyo, Japan (HitachiJoho), has partnered with Virtela toexpand HitachiJoho's managed network services portfolio andextend enterprise network reach for its customers around theworld. http://www.hitachijoho.com http://www.virtela.com/partners http://www.virtela.net FINANCIAL RESULTS... OSLO - Fast Search & Transfer, the leading developer ofenterprise search and real-time alerting technologies, hasannounced financial results for the second quarter and halfyear ended June 30, 2005. http://www.fastsearch.com http://hugin.info/134564/R/1004759/154601.pdf http://www.thisistravel.co.uk BRONZE COWS... LONDON - The central London skyline will be temporarilytransformed this Sunday, August 7th, by the sight of threelarge two-ton bronze cows flying across the sky to their newtemporary home at Goodenough College in WC1N. http://asianetnews.net BLOOMBERG TV... NEW YORK - In a one-on-one interview with BloombergTelevision, former United States President Bill Clinton spoketo Bloomberg News Managing Editor Al Hunt about Supreme Courtnominee Judge Roberts, climate change, China and the war inIraq. http://www.bloomberg.com MARKETING AGREEMENT... GENEVA - Synthesis Bank, the Swiss leader in onlineinvestment banking, has entered into a marketing agreement withChicago Mercantile Exchange, the largest futures exchange inthe United States with the broadest global distribution fortrading futures electronically. http://www.cme.com http://www.tradingfloor.com http://www.synthesisbank.com NICKEL STRIKE... SYDNEY - Surface drilling at Avebury Nickel Project nearZeehan, Tasmania has intersected a wide zone of high gradenickel sulphide mineralisation approximately 330 metres westalong strike of the current resource area. Cored drillhole A053intersected 14m of 2.5 per cent nickel. http://www.allegiance-mining.com.au (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)