SYDNEY, Oct. 27--AsiaNet/InfoQuest CNPC ACQUISITION... TORONTO & BEIJING - At a meeting today between ChinesePremier Wen Jiabao and Kazakhstan Prime Minister DanialAkhmetov expressed their strong support for continued andmutually beneficial co-operation between CNPC and KazMunaiGazwith respect to PetroKazakhstan, following CNPC's successfulacquisition of the company today. TRANSLATION SOFTWARE... SAN MATEO, Calif. - NetSuite, Inc. today unveiled a set oftranslation and multi-language capabilities to accommodate theneeds of businesses with employees and customers in multiplecountries. http://www.netsuite.com CVRD NOTES... RIO DE JANEIRO - Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) informsthat it issued today US$300 million notes due 2034. http://www.cvrd.com.br IBM INITIATIVE... SYDNEY - Thunderhead, the provider of business usercontrolled, standards-based document generation technology,announced Wednesday that it has joined IBM's ISV AdvantageInitiative. http://www.thunderhead.com http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld AELUROS DEVICE... MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Aeluros, a leading CMOS-based 10GPHY provider, announced that it has successfully demonstratedinteroperability between the Aeluros Puma AEL1002 device andXFP modules from leading XFP vendors. http://www.aeluros.com HOSPIMEDICA AWARD... BURNABY - Ultrasonix Medical Corporation, a companydedicated to Ultrasound, announced that the Sonix SP hasreceived the 2005 HOSPIMedica Award based on its premiumperformance and affordability parameters in the generalUltrasound category. http://www.ultrasonix.com KOMAG RESULTS... SAN JOSE, Calif. - Komag, Incorporated, a leadingindependent supplier of thin-film media for disk drives, hasannounced record revenue for the third quarter of 2005 of$180.0 million. http://www.komag.com FINANCIAL FORUM... VANCOUVER - Global Chinese Financial Forum TorontoConference 2005 was concluded successfully on Oct 22nd, 2005. http://www.chineseworldnet.com http://www.cwnfn.com LEAD-FREE PROCESSOR... TOKYO - IPFlex Inc. has announced it started shipping alead-free version of its DAPDNA-2 Dynamically ReconfigurableProcessor to addresses rapidly growing demand for lead-freeproducts. http://www.ipflex.com/ ALCAN EXPANSION... MONTREAL - Alcan Inc., in partnership with the Government ofCameroon, announced that the parties have signed a Letter ofIntent for the potential upgrade and expansion of theirjoint-venture Alucam primary aluminum smelter and for theconstruction of a new hydroelectric power station. http://www.alcan.com/ W.P. STEWART... HAMILTON, Texas - W.P. Stewart & Co., Ltd. announced todaythat John A. Allison, Deputy Managing Director of the Companyand Chairman of its subsidiary, W.P. Stewart Asset ManagementLtd., will be leaving to pursue business interests outside ofW.P. Stewart. http://www.wpstewart.com MARKETING APPLICATION... SUMMIT, N.J. - Celgene Corporation announced that theEuropean Medicines Agency has accepted for review the Company'sMarketing Authorization Application for Revlimid, submitted inAugust 2005. http://www.celgene.com MITAC FACILITY... TAIPEI - The Mitac Group this morning held a groundbreakingceremony for a new production facility in Que Vo IndustrialPark in Vietnam's Bac Ninh Province. http://www.mitac.com/micweb/default.htm (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)