SYDNEY, Dec. 23--AsiaNet/InfoQuest COMPENSATION TRENDS... MALAYSIA: Mercer Human Resource Consulting, a global leader for trusted human resources and related financial advice, products and services recently unveiled the latest Total Remuneration Survey (TRS) for Malaysia that covers over 245 companies across nine industries. www.mercerhr.com RESEARCH COLLABORATION... INDIANAPOLIS: Dow AgroSciences LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company, announced today that it has been named as the industry partner with the University of Melbourne in a Linkage Grant from the Australian Research Council to pursue development of plant-made production systems for an Avian Influenza vaccine. http://www.dowagro.com ASTEA EXPANDS... HORSHAM, Pa., and SHANGHAI: Astea International Inc., a global provider of service lifecycle management (SLM) solutions, and DigitalTrans Co., Ltd., China's advanced IT systems integrator, are joining forces to bring Astea's best-of-breed service lifecycle management solutions to mainland China. http://www.digitaltrans.com.cn/en_home.htm http://www.astea.com POST AMPLIFIERS... SAN JOSE, Calif.: Micrel Inc., an industry leader in analog, high-bandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, today added to its family of limiting Post Amplifiers by introducing the SY88903ALKG, SY88149CL, SY88313BLNG and the SY88343BL, a series of 1.25 to 3.2 Gbps post amplifiers featuring 3.3V power supply, higher gain and higher sensitivity for either signal or loss of signal indicators. http://www.micrel.com VIDEO CALLS... CAMPBELL, Calif.: Today Santa Cruz Networks launched Festoon Unity, a new feature to its wildly popular Festoon plug-in, uniting the world's 453 million IM users. http://www.festooninc.com/ http://www.santacruznetworks.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.)