SYDNEY--3 Apr--AsiaNet/InfoQuestKOREAN SUBSIDIARY... TOKYO: Ricoh Company, Ltd. announces the establishment of a localsubsidiary, Ricoh Electronic Devices Korea Co., Ltd. (REDK) in Kangnam-ku,Seoul, Korea as of April 3, 2006, to focus on customer service and support forthe expansion of semiconductor business in Korea. http://www.ricoh.com/LSI/ JAPANESE WEBSITE... CARY, NC.: In response to increasing interest from its clients and suppliersin Japan, INI is pleased to announce the launch of its Japanese website. http://www.inipower.com/japan NEW APPOINTMENT... MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.: Third Wave Systems (TWS) is pleased to announce that Dr.David A. Stephenson will be joining the Company as Vice President ofApplications Engineering. http://www.thirdwavesys.com FUND RAISING... AUCKLAND: Annual Intensive Care Appeal 2nd- 16th April 2006: The IntensiveCare Foundation is urging the New Zealand public to "band together" during itsannual Appeal to raise funds for critical research. www.intensivecareappeal.com VIDEO GAME... PALO ALTO, Calif.: HopeLab on Sunday announced the release of Re-Mission,the first video game scientifically shown to improve health-related outcomesfor young people with cancer, an underserved and overlooked population who areat greater risk for adverse cancer outcomes. http://www.hopelab.org http://www.re-mission.net FREESTYLE MOTOCROSS... MEXICO CITY: 42,000 enthusiastic fans in the world's largest bull fightingarena, Live-TV transmissions in Mexico, Guatemala and Venezuela celebrated atthe Red Bull X-Fighters an exhilarating Freestyle Motocross night. www.redbullxfighters.com www.redbull-photofiles.com PURCHASE COMPLETED... WICHITA, Kansas: Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., on Saturday announced that it hascompleted the purchase of BAE Systems Aerostructures business unit located inPrestwick, Scotland, and Samlesbury, England. http://www.spiritaero.com TOP SCHOOL... GLENDALE, AZ: For the eleventh year in a row, Thunderbird, The Garvin Schoolof International Management has been ranked as the No. 1 graduate school forinternational business in the United States by U.S. News & World Reportmagazine. http://www.thunderbird.edu WASHINGTON MEETING... WASHINGTON: Senior leaders from one of the world's largest moderate Muslimorganizations are expected to meet with high-level officials of both the U.S.State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) thisweek in Washington to celebrate successes and discuss future partnerships. http://www.usaid.gov http://jhuccp.org UKRAINE PLANT... SHANNON: Element Six Abrasives on Friday announced the acquisition of amajority of the shareholding of OJSC "Poltava Diamond Plant", a Ukrainiandiamond synthesis plant which produces resin bond synthetic diamond. PORTABLE SOLUTIONS... GAITHERSBURG, Md.: GL Communications Inc. on Friday announced a "drivetesting enhancement" to their Wireless Voice Quality Testing (VQT) Solutions( http://www.gl.com/drivetesting.html ). http://www.gl.com CHINA FACILITY... SHANGHAI: Caterpillar Inc. subsidiary, Caterpillar Logistics Services, Inc.(Cat Logistics), has opened a new parts distribution center in the LingangIndustrial Area in Shanghai. http://www.CAT.com FREE TREATMENT... PHNOM PENH, Cambodia and LOS ANGELES: AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), thelargest AIDS organization in the United States, which operates free AIDStreatment clinics in the US, Africa, Central America, and Asia, has joinedtogether with the Ministry of Health, Royal Government of Cambodia andCambodia's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology and STI Control (NCHADS)in a new partnership to provide life-saving anti-retroviral therapy (ART) topeople living with HIV/AIDS in Cambodia. ROYALTY REDUCTION... TOKYO: The DVD6C Licensing Group (DVD6C), the industry body consisting ofeight leading developers of DVD technology and formats- Hitachi, Ltd.,Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic), Mitsubishi ElectricCorporation, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation, Toshiba Corporation,Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. (JVC) and Warner Home Video Inc. - on Fridayannounced that the minimum royalty for DVD-R Discs for eligible licensees willbe reduced to 4.5 US cents per disc sold on or after January 1, 2006 forcompanies that enter into a DVD6C category license, and it has provided anincentive for manufacturers of DVD-R Discs to become licensed under the DVD6CDVD-R Disc patents on or before May 31, 2006. http://www.toshiba.co.jp/contact/media.htm (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.)