SYDNEY--21 Jul--AsiaNet/InfoQuestTHAILAND TO... BANGKOK - The Ministry of Information and CommunicationTechnology announces the readiness of Thailand to be the newICT hub of ASEAN through its strong ICT infrastructure andglobal collaboration in ICT trade, investment anddevelopment. ADVAN TIRE... TOKYO - The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. has announced that thecompany's ADVAN Sport (V103S) tire has been approved by theAudi AG as one of the Original Equipment tires for the new S8model. PEPSICO STATEMENT... PURCHASE, N.Y. - Since its founding in 1998, the PepsiBottling Group has been and remains one of PepsiCo's mosttrusted and valued partners. http://www.pepsico.com PUBLISHERS SUE... BOSTON - Seven leading scientific, technical and medicalpublishers -- American Chemical Society, American Institute ofPhysics, Blackwell Publishing, Inc., Elsevier, Inc., Taylor &Francis (a subsidiary of Informa Plc.), Springer Science andBusiness Media LLC (part of Springer Science + Business MediaGroup), and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. and Wiley-Liss, Inc.(subsidiaries of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) -- announced theyhave filed suit against Commax Worldwide, a California-basedsubscription agency, its subsidiary Commax Technologies, Inc.,and nine individuals including the president of CommaxTechnologies, Henry Chen. http://www.aip.org http://www.chemistry.org http://www.blackwellpublishing.com http://www.blackwell-synergy.com http://www.elsevier.com http://www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com http://www.springer.com http://www.wiley.com http://www.reedelsevier.com http://www.sciencedirect.com http://www.mdconsult.com http://www.info.scopus.com www.aip.org LIFE SCIENCES... LYON - The 5th World Life Science Forum, BioVision, willtake place from March 11th to 14th, 2007 in Lyon, France. http://www.biovision.org/preconf_uk.htm www.biovision.org www.biovision.org/press_room.htm www.biovision-blog.org DFW AIRPORT... DFW INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Texas, - In a historicannouncement that could bring two of the world's most prolifichigh-tech economies together in a single airplane flight,American Airlines announced that it will seek permission fromthe U.S. Department of Transportation to begin non-stop servicefrom DFW International Airport to Beijing, China. http://www.dfwairport.com NATCO ANNOUNCES... HOUSTON - NATCO Group Inc. announced that it has sold sharesrepresenting twenty-five percent ownership in its affiliate,NATCO Japan Company Ltd., to Modec Inc. and to DaiichiJitsugyo, Ltd. an existing NATCO Japan shareholder. http://www.natcogroup.com STERLING STAMOS... NEW YORK - Sterling Stamos Capital Management, L.P.announced the initial funding of an expected total commitmentof $2.1 million to the William J. Clinton Foundation for itsHIV/AIDS Initiative's work in Cambodia and the DominicanRepublic. (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)