SYDNEY--5 Jun--AsiaNet/InfoQuest WORLD CUP... ROTTERDAM - The Socceroos sent their World Cup confidenceskyrocketing today, bravely holding The Netherlands to a 1-1draw with 10 men in a dramatic friendly international inRotterdam. SENIOR ADVISOR... HONG KONG - Hill & Associates, Asia's largest riskmanagement & business intelligence consultancy firm hasannounced the appointment of Mr. Arthur L. Kobler as SeniorAdvisor. http://www.hill-assoc.com PECVD SHIPMENTS... SANTA CLARA, Calif. - AKT, Inc., the world's leadingsupplier of PECVD systems to the flat panel display industry,has achieved a significant milestone in FPD CVD technology byshipping its 500th PECVD system. http://www.appliedmaterials.com CENTREBET ODS... SYDNEY - ACT leader Rodney Hide is $7.00 with onlinebookmaker Centrebet to win Dancing with the Stars. http://www.centrebet.com CASHLESS TRANSACTIONS... VIENNA - Austrian watchmaker LAKS, which has often caused asensation in the past with its innovative products, hasintroduced a breakthrough product for cashless transactions. http://www.LAKS.com/project/paypass LODGING ECONOMETRICS... PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - Lodging Econometrics, the IndustryAuthority for Hotel Real Estate, announced the completion andpublication of the first-ever comprehensive Lodging DevelopmentPipeline for all countries in the Asia-Pacific region. http://www.lodging-econometrics.com BREAST CANCER... BASEL, Switzerland - A new randomised phase III study inadvanced breast cancer shows the combination of Xeloda(capecitabine) plus paclitaxel is equally as effective andsafer than the, recognised as highly potent, combination ofepirubicin plus paclitaxel. http://www.roche.com http://www.thenewsmarket.com CANCER FINDINGS... BASEL - New 23-month follow-up data from HERA, one of thelargest breast cancer trials ever carried out, show thatHerceptin (trastuzumab) following standard chemotherapysignificantly reduced the risk of death by 34 per cent forwomen with early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer. http://www.roche.com http://www.gene.com http://www.health-kiosk.ch/start_krebs http://www.thenewsmarket.com COLORECTAL CANCER... BASEL - New data from 4,000 patients show that Avastin(bevacizumab rhuMAb-VEGF) enables patients with advancedcolorectal cancer (CRC) to live longer without progression oftheir disease. http://www.roche.com AROMATASE INHIBITOR... MACCLESFIELD - AstraZeneca announced that anastrozole hasthis month become the first aromatase inhibitor (AI) toaccumulate over two million patient years' clinicalexperience. http://www.astrazenecapressoffice.com http://BreastCancerSource.com SALES REPRESENTATIVE... WEGBERG - Clyvia Technology GmbH announced that it hasconcluded a contract with HII GmbH Industrieanlagen Bau undBeratung that calls for HII to become the company's exclusivesales representative for decentralized fractionateddepolymerization systems for plastics and used oil inArgentina, Venezuela and numerous Arab countries. http://www.clyviatec.de DOCUMENTATION SYSTEM... OTTAWA - Dinmar and Le Consortium IRIS-Quebec Plus announcedthat they have developed an outpatient clinical documentationsystem for a cardiovascular prevention clinic affiliated withthe University of Montr aac?al, with plans to develop additionalmodules for respiratory clinics, cancer clinics, and strokeclinics later this year. http://www.dinmar.com SHARE CAPITAL... AMSTERDAM and LUXEMBOURG - Axalto and Gemplus InternationalS.A. announce that the contribution in kind to Axalto of theinterests in Gemplus of TPG and the Quandt family entities,25.2 per cent and 18.3 per cent respectively, in aggregate 43.4per cent of Gemplus share capital, has been completed. http://www.amf-france.org EARTHQUAKE DONATION... OSAKA - Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. announces a 10 million yencontribution from the Sanyo Electric Group to benefit victimsof the earthquake, which has devastated Java, Indonesia. http://www.global-sanyo.com EARTHQUAKE RELIEF... TOKYO - On June 1 Soka Gakkai representatives donatedUS$30,000 to the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Japanfor earthquake relief following the severe quake which hitCentral Java on May 27. http://www.sgi.org (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)