SYDNEY--22 May--AsiaNet/InfoQuest LPG SAFETY... SYDNEY: LPG heating is a popular and economical fuel forhome heating. However it's important to observe a few safetyrules when using this form of heating. www.boc.co.nz HONEYWELL GRANTS... PHOENIX: Honeywell has announced that it has reachedagreement to grant rights to HannStar Display Corporation underpatented Honeywell technology relating to certain liquidcrystal display products. www.honeywell.com DANCING KING... SYDNEY: Beatrice Faumuina's lengthy reign as Centrebet'sDancing with the Stars series favourite is over. DavidWikaira-Paul ($2.50 from $4.00) is Centrebet's new dancingking. Queen Bea ($3.00 from $3.50) is Centrebet's secondfavourite for the television competition. www.centrebet.com NEW AIRLINE... NEW YORK: Baltia Air Lines, a new U.S. airline, based at theJFK Airport in New York at Terminal 4, is getting ready tostart a nonstop service to St. Petersburg, Russia with a Boeing747. www.baltia.com IBIQUITY DIGITAL... COLUMBIA, Md.: iBiquity Digital Corporation, the soledeveloper of digital HD Radio technology for AM and FMbroadcasting, announced that it has selected the ALPS TDGA2tuner for its second generation HD Radio Reference Design(Version 2.0). www.ibiquity.com www.alps.com VEHICLE SATISFACTION... AUCKLAND: With top ratings from customers in vehicle appeal,service and ownership costs, Honda ranks highest in satisfyingnew-vehicle owners in New Zealand for a second consecutivetime, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2006 NewZealand Vehicle Ownership Satisfaction Study. www.jdpa.com www.mcgraw-hill.com MAYBACH SALOON... BARCELONA, Spain and STUTTGART, Germany: Spanish King JuanCarlos I started his special Maybach experience in the settingof the Laureus World Sports Award in Barcelona. The keys forthe "Cote d'Azur" blue luxury Saloon were handed over by DrDieter Zetsche, the Chairman of the Board of Management ofDaimlerChrysler AG and Head of the Mercedes Car Group, at theCatalonian Grand Prix racetrack "Circuit de Catalunya". www.media.daimlerchrysler.com PULMONARY DISEASE... SAN DIEGO: Survey results from the 'Time to Live' report,presented at the American Thoracic Society InternationalCongress, show over two thirds of primary care physicians (66per cent) fear Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)will be the leading cause of death in 2020 despite almost all(98 per cent) believing that there are effective treatmentsavailable for this condition. www.who.int/respiratory/copd/en CVRD SETTLES... RIO DE JANEIRO: Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD), theworld's largest iron ore producer, concluded the iron ore pricenegotiations for 2006 with Mittal Steel Group (Mittal), theworld's largest steel maker. As an outcome of thesenegotiations, iron ore prices for Carajas (SFCJ) and SouthernSystem (SSF) fines increased by 19.0 per cent relatively to2005. http://www.cvrd.com.br MERGER APPROVED... AMSTERDAM and LUXEMBOURG: Axalto Holding N.V. and GemplusInternational S.A. have announced that the European Commissionhas cleared the proposed Axalto and Gemplus combination underthe EU merger regulation, with specific undertakings. www.amf-france.org www.sec.gov MERCEDES-BENZ WORLD... STUTTGART-UNTERTURKHEIM: The Minister-President of the Stateof Baden-Wurttemberg Gunther H. Oettinger, and the Chairman ofthe Board of Management of DaimlerChrysler AG Dr. DieterZetsche opened Mercedes-Benz World at a ceremony attended bynumerous guests from the spheres of politics, economics andsociety. www.media.daimlerchrysler.com www.presseportal.de/story.htx?firmaid=62317&keygroup=bild KEYWORD SERVICE... TOKYO: Mitsue-Links Co., Ltd. has released Keyword SurveyService which uses Keyword Portfolio to optimize ROI for SEOlisting advertising and to help visualize the basis of acompany site's branding. www.mitsue.co.jp/english/ www.mitsue.co.jp/english/service/consultkeyword_survey.html CPA AUSTRALIA... MELBOURNE: CPA Australia, the world's sixth largestprofessional accounting body, has further cemented its ongoingengagement with professional accounting bodies across the AsiaPacific region with the signing of Memorandum of Cooperationwith the Vietnam Association of Certified Public Accountants(VACPA). www.cpaaustralia.com.au CPA AUSTRALIA... MELBOURNE: CPA Australia has signed a Memorandum ofCooperation with the National Accounting Council of Cambodia(NAC). www.cpaaustralia.com.au (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)