SYDNEY--7 Jul--AsiaNet/InfoQuest AVEBURY NICKEL... SYDNEY - Emerging Australian nickel producer, Allegiance Mining NL ispleased to announce an update on its Avebury Nickel Project. www.allegiance-mining.com.au GEMALTO SELECTED... AMSTERDAM and LJUBLJANA - Gemalto, a world leader in digital security,announces it will provide the technology to be used in electronic passports forSlovenian citizens. http://www.gemalto.com CYPROTEX LAUNCHES... MANCHESTER, England - Cyprotex announced the launch of its new screeningservice, designed to help drug discovery teams identify compounds which aremechanism-based inhibitors of Cytochrome P450 (CYP450). www.cyprotex.com MUHC AND... OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada - DINMAR, a leading North American healthcare ITsolutions company, announced that Montreal-based McGill University HealthCentre (MUHC) and the Centre hospitalier de l'Universit aac? de Montr aac?al(CHUM) have successfully activated DINMAR's innovative electronic health record(EHR) product Oacis|ehr(TM). www.chumontreal.qc.ca www.dinmar.com BROOKS AUTOMATION... CHELMSFORD, Mass. - Brooks Automation, Inc., which develops and produceshardware, software and systems for the semiconductor and other complexmanufacturing industries, announced that Jusung Engineering Ltd., an equipmentmanufacturer based in Kyungkido, South Korea, recently placed a significantmulti-million dollar order for Brooks' proven Gemini Express 6000 (GX6000)vacuum system. http://www.brooks.com http://www.jsung.com GLOBELEQ COMPLETES... LAHORE - Globeleq, the emerging markets power company, announced today thatit has completed the purchase of a substantial interest in Fauji Kabirwala, a157 megawatt (MW) natural gas-fired baseload plant located near Kabirwala inthe Province of Punjab. http://www.globeleq.com http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040611/DAF004LOGO ELIZONDO TO... BERLIN - Argentine Horacio Elizondo will referee Sunday's World Cup finalbetween Italy and France while Japan's Toru Kamikawa will be in charge of thethird-place playoff match between losing semifinalists Germany and Portugal,FIFA said Thursday. GERMANY AND... STUTTGART - World Cup third-place playoffs are not the sort of games thattend to linger in the minds of football fans or earn themselves a lasting placein the history or mythology of the sport. FIFA REVAMPS... BERLIN - The new version of the much criticised football world rankings wererevealed by the governing body FIFA today. COUNTDOWN TO... BERLIN - World Cup finalists Italy and France today were beginning theirbuild-up for Sunday's grand showcase match in Berlin's Olympic Stadium. THREE REVELLERS... PARIS - Three French revellers died and a fourth was feared drowned aftermore than half a million football fans took to the streets early Thursday tocelebrate their side's qualification for the World Cup final. NANO CHEMICAL... SEAFORD, Del. - Nano Chemical Systems Holdings, Inc. announces that Mr.George Barnett of Redwood City, California, USA has been engaged to file autility patent application for the company's nano enhanced mold inhibitorproduct. PARADIGM ANNOUNCES... AMSTERDAM - Paradigm, the leading software and consulting provider to theoil and gas industry for Rock and Fluid Interpretation, announced a definitiveagreement to acquire Earth Decision, a leading provider of fully integratedshared-earth modeling for asset teams. http://www.paradigmgeo.com http://www.earthdecision.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.)