SYDNEY--18 Jul--AsiaNet/InfoQuestICIS PRICING... SINGAPORE - ICIS pricing, the global market pricing and intelligence servicefor the oil and chemical industries, is launching a new China polypropylenereport available in both Chinese and English. http://www.icispricing.com http://www.icispricing.com/il_free/il_free_trial/free_trial . asp?comp=PRccp OPENIPMP ANNOUNCES... NEW YORK - Open-source project OpenIPMP today announced the release ofOpenIPMP v2, a major upgrade to the leading open-source and open-standardsbased DRM (Digital Rights Management) system originally released in 2002. http://sourceforge.net/projects/openipmp ) http://www.mutablemedia.com AMERICAN ENERGY... NEW ORLEANS - The Southern States Energy Board (SSEB), comprised ofgovernors and state legislators from 16 southern states and two territories,released a critically-acclaimed study of America's liquid transportation fueloptions. http://www.AmericanEnergySecurity.org/studyrelease.html MTN CAMEROON... CAMBRIDGE - Africa's largest cellular operator MTN is using CambridgeBroadband's VectaStar wireless transmission solution to backhaul its cellularGSM network in Cameroon. http://www.cambridgebroadband.com http://www.mtn.cm THOMSON SCIENTIFIC... TAIPEI - Thomson Scientific announced that Academia Sinica, one of the mostprominent academic institutions in Taiwan, has obtained access to Web ofScience as an important driver in its effort to accelerate the development ofacademic research. http://www.thomson.com http://www.scientific.thomson.com VALEO RECEIVES... PARIS - Valeo announced that it has received a Nissan Global Supplier Awardfor Innovation, recognizing the air quality system developed by Valeo ThermalSystems Japan. CNH GLOBAL... LAKE FOREST, Ill. - CNH Global N.V. will release second quarter financialresults at approximately 8:00 a.m. Eastern time on Monday, July 24, 2006. http://www.cnh.com http://www.earnings.com ADAPTIX POWERS... DALLAS, TX - ADAPTIX, one of the earliest developers of orthogonal frequencydivision multiple access technology, has provided both equipment and technicalsupport services to Japan-based service provider WILLCOM for use in a trialtesting the effectiveness of OFDMA as the basis for next-generation PersonalHandyphone System services. http://www.ADAPTIX.com http://www.WILLCOM-inc.com BANK OF AMERICA... CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Bank of America Corporation announced an expansion of itspartnership with The Nature Conservancy through a US$500,000 contribution tofund alternative energy use in China. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050720/CLW086LOGO-b http://photoarchive.ap.org http://www.bankofamerica.com http://www.nature.org TAIYO FUND... TOKYO - The Taiyo Fund announced it has increased its position in OSGCorporation and now holds 8 per cent of the company's total outstanding shares. TAIYO INCREASES... TOKYO - The Taiyo Fund announced that it has significantly increased itsposition in Roland DG Corp to over 9 per cent and is the company's secondlargest shareholder. (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)