SYDNEY--4 Jul--AsiaNet/InfoQuestMERCER UNVEILS... SINGAPORE: Mercer Human Resource Consulting, a global leaderfor human resources and related financial advice and servicesunveils the findings from its latest Total Remuneration Surveyfor Singapore that covers over 500 companies across 10industries. BRAZIL SQUAD... RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil's players returned from the World Cupin Germany and there was no adoring crowd nor street parade togreet them. In fact, coach Alberto Parreira escaped out a backdoor at the airport to avoid fans and the media. RONALDINHO STATUE... RIO DE JANEIRO: Angry Brazilian football fans have destroyeda seven-metre tall statue of World Player of the YearRonaldinho following the national team's World Cupquarter-final exit at the hands of France. GREECE SUSPENDED... BERLIN: Football's world governing body FIFA announced theyhad suspended the Greek Football Federation for allowingpolitical involvement in their running of the sport. Thesuspension means Greece, the reigning European champions, willbe suspended from all international football until furthernotice. OSIM DEAL... HIDA: JEF United Chiba manager Ivica Osim confirmed he isheaded toward a deal with the Japan Football Association forthe job of national coach and said he hopes to build a teamwith a style suited to Japanese players. FRANCE-PORTUGAL CLASH... MUNICH: Before the World Cup kicked off just under a monthago, not many pundits were predicting a semifinal showdownbetween France and Portugal, the 1998 world champions seeming ashadow of their former selves and the Euro 2004 losingfinalists regarded as perennial also-rans. CRISTIANO RONALDO... BERLIN: Portugal winger Cristiano Ronaldo has revealed thereare no feelings of animosity between him and his ManchesterUnited teammate Wayne Rooney after the England striker wasred-carded in Saturday's World Cup quarterfinal. www.gestifute.com BRADY ANNOUNCES... MILWAUKEE: Brady Corporation, a world leader inidentification solutions and precision die-cut components, hasannounced that it has completed its acquisition of DaewonIndustry Corporation, a Korean manufacturer of self-adhesivecomponents for the mobile phone industry. http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/952350.html http://www.bradycorp.com PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT... NEW YORK: Inductis, a global management consulting andanalytics services firm serving Fortune 500 clients and SAS,the leader in business intelligence software, have announced ajoint silver partnership agreement. http://www.inductis.com ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES... BEACHWOOD, Ohio: Aleris International, Inc. has announcedseveral organizational changes related to its plannedacquisition of the downstream aluminum businesses of CorusGroup plc. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050504/CLW056LOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org http://www.aleris.com FLOATING BED... AMSTERDAM: Conventional furniture is in contact with theearth through gravity. Floating Bed overcomes this fundamentalpower and falls towards the sky. Four thin cables assure itsmotionless position and form the only contact with theground. http://www.UniverseArchitecture.com CRILLS JOINS... ST. HELIER, Jersey and GEORGE TOWN: Walkers, the globaloffshore law firm of choice for investment managers, financialorganizations, and international law firms, and CrillsAdvocates, a Jersey-based provider of institutional offshoreand domestic legal services, announced that they have joinedoperations, as of 1 July 2006, to provide a full range ofoffshore legal services in Jersey and to offer Jersey legal andadministrative services in jurisdictions around the worldincluding London, Dubai, the BVI, and Hong Kong. http://www.walkersglobal.com OSTOMY PATIENTS... HONG KONG: A new study has revealed that almost half of allpeople living with a permanent stoma have a skin disorderaround their stoma that may be avoided by regular visits to aspecialist nurse. http://www.coloplast.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.)