SYDNEY--7 Jun--AsiaNet/InfoQuest SYNOPSYS CONFERENCE... BANGALORE, India - Synopsys, Inc., a world leader insemiconductor design software, today recognized the outstandingpapers presented at this year's Synopsys Users' Groupconference, on 25-26 May in Bangalore, India. BUSINESS SCHOOL... MELBOURNE - Melbourne Business School has received fullEQUIS accreditation, the global quality assurance scheme of theEuropean Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). http://www.efmd.org http://www.mbs.edu ARROW CHINA... HONG KONG - For the fifth year in a row, Arrow ElectronicsChina Ltd. was named one of the "Most Preferred InternationalDistributors" by its customers in a recent customer preferencesurvey conducted by Electronics Supply & Manufacturing - China(ESMC). http://www.arrow.com SEMICONDUCTOR DESIGNER... CAMBRIDGE - New semiconductor designer Adventiq hasannounced details of its first product, a system-on-a-chipdesigned for remote KVM (keyboard, video and mouse) control ofPCs and servers. http://www.adventiq.com CLINICAL PROGRAM... MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Benitec Ltd., a leading developer ofRNA interference-based therapeutics, announced that itsHepatitis C clinical program will be highlighted at theAmerican Society of Gene Therapy 9th Annual Meeting inBaltimore, Maryland. http://www.benitec.com QUINTILES AWARDS... RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - Quintiles Transnational Corp.announced that its Quintiles East Asia subsidiary has beennamed the Asia Pacific region's Multinational Clinical TrialsService Provider of the Year and Multinational CRO of the Yearby the consulting firmFrost & Sullivan. http://www.quintiles.com LONE STAR... DALLAS, Texas - Lone Star Funds announced that it intends toappeal KRW 25.3 billion ($26.6 million) of registration taxesand penalties recently assessed by the City of Seoul relatingto its acquisition of the Star Tower office block in southernSeoul in 2001. MEDICAL CONGRESS... TORONTO - The largest world medical congress devotedspecifically to osteoporosis ended in Toronto, following fivedays in which nearly 4,000 participants from 98 countrieslearned of the latest research in this crippling bone diseaseand clinical strategies to treat patients more effectively. http://www.osteofound.org INTERNET PLATFORMS... CHICAGO, Ill. - Novarra, the provider of next-generationhigh performance Internet platforms for mobile, announcedcommercial availability of nWeb platform Version 5.0. http://www.novarra.com TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE... SAN JOSE, Calif. - Komag, Incorporated, a leadingindependent supplier of thin-film media for disk drives,announced that the Company will participate in Bear Stearns17th Annual Technology Conference. http://www.komag.com NEW SERVICE... CHICAGO, Ill. - Novarra and Tre Italia, the Mobile MediaCompany of the Hutchison Whampoa Group, announced the launch ofthe new "WWW" service, using Novarra's next-generation highperformance Internet platform for mobile operators. http://www.novarra.com ASIA OFFICES... TEMPE, Ariz. - Mach 1 Air Services, one of the industry'smost respected freight forwarding companies, announces theopening of its Shanghai and Singapore offices, with a Hong Kongjoint venture coming online in early Q3. http://www.mach1air.com WORLD CUP... WILLEMSTAD - The biggest sporting event in the world kicksoff in Germany on June 9, when teams representing 32 nationsvie for the most prestigious trophy in sports, the 2006 FIFAWorld Cup. http://www.pinnaclesports.com GENOA COLORPEAK... SAN FRANCISCO - In a side-by-side comparison study designedby Quixel Research, 91 per cent of the participants said theypreferred the picture on a 32-inch LCD TV panel featuring theGenoa ColorPeak display system over a similar-sized,award-winning LCD television from a leading Japanese brand. http://www.genoacolor.com http://www.quixelresearch.com http://genoacolor.com\survey.asp FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of 1 securities issues amounting to a total of US$25million on June 16, 2006, at a redemption price equal to 100per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. http://www.fanniemae.com CELL PHONES... MELBOURNE - Boston-based Communications Company, ekit, hasthe answer for Americans who love overseas vacations and wantthe convenience and security of an international cell phone atlow cost. http://www.ekit.com/mobile ONLINE DATA... WILTON, Conn. - Online survey solutions provider GreenfieldOnline, Inc. and its Ciao subsidiary, demonstrated the depth ofits experience in collecting data online in Asian countries, aswell as its new panels in Japan, China and South Korea toattendees at ESOMAR's Worldwide Multi-Media MeasurementConference and China Forum. http://www.greenfield.com http://www.ciao-group.com QUELLAN INCORPORATED... LISLE, Ill. - Quellan Incorporated, a leading provider ofanalog signal integrity chips for the rapidly growing datacenter, consumer, automotive and cell phone markets, and MolexIncorporated, a global manufacturer of interconnect systems,ran the proposed PCI Express Cable Standard to 30 meters - abreakthrough for Data Center economics. http://www.quellan.com http://www.molex.com PRESTIGIOUS SCHOOL... BREUKELEN - Nyenrode Business Universiteit, one of theoldest and most prestigious business schools in Europe, isexploring ways to attract more Indonesian management talents toits picturesque campus in the Netherlands. http://www.nyenrode.nl IRAQ TV... BAGHDAD - World Cup fever may be sweeping the world, butmany war-weary Iraqis fear they will miss out on the spectacleWwith the country's public broadcaster holding noretransmission rights for the matches and the cost ofsubscriptions to satellite broadcasters beyond the means ofmany. CANCER TRIAL... ATLANTA, GA. - Data presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting ofthe American Society of Clinical Oncology from a clinical trialinvolving 1,147 patients whose metastatic colorectal cancer hasfailed prior irinotecan-based treatment, show that targetedcancer therapy, Erbitux plus irinotecan, demonstrated a mediansurvival of 9.2 months. http://www.subscribe.merck.de PC AWARD... TAIPEI - First International Computer, a world leader in thedesign and production of personal computers and electronics,was awarded the "Best Choice of Computex Taipei 2006" for theirSpectra-T Entertainment PC. http://www.fic.com.tw JAPANESE TALENT... BREUKELEN - Nyenrode Business Universiteit, one of theoldest and most prestigious business schools in Europe, isexploring ways to attract more Japanese management talents toits picturesque campus in the Netherlands. http://www.nyenrode.nl (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)