SYDNEY, Oct. 6--AsiaNet/InfoQuest ING WHOLESALE... HANOI: ING Wholesale Banking's Institutional & GovernmentAdvisory (IGA) group announced that it has been mandated tosupport the transformation of the Bank for Investment andDevelopment of Vietnam (BIDV), one of the country's five majorstate-owned banks. HEWITT ASSOCIATES... LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill: One year after Hewitt Associates, aglobal human resources services firm, merged with Exult, Inc.,it has signed 14 new HR BPO clients. www.hewitt.com MICREL INC... SAN JOSE, Calif: Micrel Inc. has launched the MICRF600, thelatest in Micrel's family of low-power radio modules. www.micrel.com VIRTELA SERVICE... DENVER, Colo: Virtela, a global secure network solutionscompany, announced that it outperformed competitors in a recentsurvey of global enterprises in multiple service categories andwas rated the highest in overall customer satisfaction. www.virtela.net LIVER TUMORS... LUND: CMC Contrast AB Starts Clinical Phase III Studies onNew Promising Contrast Medium for Scanning of Liver Tumors byMeans of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). The Clinical Phase Iand Phase II Studies Have Given Excellent Results. www.cmc-contrast.se ASAHI GLASS... TOKYO: Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. has decided to establish aplant at the Asahi Glass Fluoropolymers U.K. Ltd. site inThornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire to manufacture fluorinated resinETFE, which is used as an insulating material for electricalwires and as a raw material of films. www.agc.co.jp/english/index.html PALGRAVE MACMILLAN... SINGAPORE: Business publisher Palgrave Macmillan launchesthe new business book "Asian Brand Strategy" in more than 60countries. www.asianbrandstrategy.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)