SYDNEY--8 Mar--AsiaNet/Infoquest COO APPOINTMENT... BOSTON: Tele Atlas, a leading global provider of geographic content, todayannounced the appointment of Mark Steele to the newly-created position of ChiefOperating Officer, Asia, Middle East and Africa (AMEA) http://www.teleatlas.com HEPATITIS B MANILA: Hope of a treatment-free life for millions of hepatitis B patientscurrently having to take daily therapy to keep their disease under control, wasrevealed today at an international congress in Manila. http://www.roche.com MEMORY BOOK NUNSPEET: A website http://www.remembermewhenimgone.org has been launchedwhich provides a template to help parents who are dying to create a memory bookto leave their children. http://www.remembermewhenimgone.org SLA STARS ALEXANDRIA, Va.: The Special Libraries Association (SLA) has selected 18outstanding individuals as recipients for its 2006 Awards and Honors. http://www.sla.org COPD TREATMENT... PARIS: New data from a large one-year study published in this month's issueof the European Respiratory Journal show that tiotropium significantly reducesexacerbations and associated health resource use in patients with COPD comparedwith placebo. http://www.goldcopd.com TENNECO ELECTS... TOKYO: Tenneco has elected Mitsunobu (Tony) Takeuchi to the company's boardof directors, expanding the board to 11 members. http://www.tenneco.com ETHERNET CONTROLLER... SANTA CLARA, Calif.: Marvell, the leader in storage, communications, andconsumer silicon solutions, Tuesday introduced the next generation of Marvell'sindustry leading Yukon family of Ethernet controllers -- Marvell Yukon Ultra. http://www.marvell.com MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION... HOLTSVILLE, N.Y.: Symbol Technologies, Inc., The Enterprise MobilityCompany, Tuesday announced that Frederiksberg Hospital, one of the largesthospitals in Copenhagen, Denmark, has selected a Symbol enterprise mobilitysolution to help maximize patient care by reducing the potential for hospitalerror during the process of administering medication. http://www.symbol.com NEW AMBASSADOR... WASHINGTON: The United States-Indonesia Society (USINDO) warmly welcomedH.E. Sudjadnan Parnohadiningrat, the new Ambassador of Indonesia to the UnitedStates, at a reception and dinner at the Arts Club of Washington (DC) onTuesday evening. http://www.usindo.org OTIS WINS... FARMINGTON, Conn.: Otis Elevator Company, a unit of United TechnologiesCorp., was awarded a contract to supply and install 42 Gen2 elevators for 21apartment buildings in Kuwait City. http://www.otis.com POST OFFICES... SINGAPORE: Post offices are fast becoming a popular financial servicesdistribution channel in the Asia-Pacific region, with about 42 per cent oftheir revenue contributed by financial services, as opposed to 12 percent inindustrial countries and 14 percent globally, according to the Universal PostalUnion. www.rfasiapacific.org (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.)