SYDNEY, Aug. 25--AsiaNet/InfoQuest H1 PROFIT... SYDNEY: Santos Limited has announced a record A$290 million(US$218.86 million) net profit after tax for the six months to30 June 2005. This compares with net profit of A$85 million inthe first half of 2004 when earnings were impacted by the lossof production caused by the Moomba incident. TOP RANKING... HONG KONG: Engineers ranked Arrow the number one distributorin China in EDN Magazine's 2005 Worldwide Semiconductor and ICBrand Study. In the study, EDN, a worldwide design informationpublication for electronics industry, examined customers onbrand and awareness, usage and preference for suppliers anddistributors of integrated circuits (IC) and semiconductors. http://www.arrowasia.com TRAVEL MAGAZINE... SYDNEY: Fairfax General Magazines, a division of theAustralian Stock Exchange listed John Fairfax Holdings Limited,will publish the world's leading travel magazine, Travel +Leisure, in Australia. EARLY MARRIAGE... CALVERTON: Early marriage and childbearing remain majorobstacles to further fertility decline in Bangladesh. Almosthalf of women marry before age 20. This is the highest rate ofearly marriage in Asia and among the highest worldwide. EQUITY FINANCING... OCALA: Intellon Corporation, the leading provider ofHomePlug-compatible IC's for home networking, networkedentertainment and connected powerline applications, announcedit has raised US$24.5 million in new equity financing. http://www.intellon.com http://www.bcecapital.com http://www.motorola.com/ventures MANUFACTURING FACILITY... SAN JOSE: Micrel, Inc., an industry leader in IC analog,high bandwidth and Ethernet solutions, announced it hasachieved a major milestone towards implementing sub-micron 0.35technology processing in its world class fab facility locatedin San Jose California. http://www.micrel.com MBA PROGRAM... LAUSANNE: In the Forbes survey of the Best Business Schools,featured in the September 5 edition of the publication, IMDranked #2 among 1-year non-US MBA programs. The survey rankedschools based on return on investment -- meaning compensationfive years after graduation minus tuition and the forgonesalary during school. http://www.imd.ch/mba http://www.forbes.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)