Sydney--18 Aug--AsiaNet/InfoQuest CAPE COMMENCES... BRISBANE: Cape Alumina Pty Ltd has commenced groundpreparations in Queensland, Australia for a 580 hole drillingprogramme on its Cape York Peninsula bauxite project with thegoal of outlining an initial resource of up to 100 milliontonnes to potentially supply the surging Chinesealumina-aluminium market. http://www.metallicaminerals.com.au http://www.capealumina.com.au BMO ADDS... TORONTO: BMO Capital Markets Thursday announced the additionof investment banking services to the range of financialproducts and services offered by BMO Financial Group inChina. http://www.bmocm.com CLERITY ACQUIRES... CHICAGO: Clerity Solutions, Inc. is pleased to announce theacquisition of Sun Microsystems' mainframe re-hostingbusiness. http://www.clerity.com TURKMENISTAN AGREES... LAKE FOREST: Case IH, a world leader in the agriculturalequipment business, said Turkmenistan has agreed to buy 220tractors and 100 cotton pickers from Case IH valued at US$55million. http://www.caseih.com ALCAN JOINS... MONTREAL: Alcan announced Thursday that it has joined theBusiness Leaders Initiative on Human Rights whose purpose is tofind practical ways of applying the aspirations of theUniversal Declaration of Human Rights within a business contextand to inspire other businesses to do likewise. http://www.alcan.com . FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of one securities issue of US$100 million on August 28,2006 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of theprincipal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com CHIP UNVEILED... SANTA CLARA: Marvell, the leader in storage, communications,and consumer silicon solutions, announced Thursday the world'sfirst 90-nm CMOS, WLAN plus Bluetooth single chip solution forcellular handsets, battery-powered media players, portablegaming consoles, smartphones, PDAs and ultra-low-powercomputing platforms. http://www.marvell.com ANTENNA REVEALED... WELLINGBOROUGH: Sarantel, the leading manufacturer ofrevolutionary filtering antennas for mobile and wirelessdevices and u-blox AG, the leading Swiss provider of innovativeGPS receiver technology, have announced the availability of anew "Smart Antenna" reference design that will shortentime-to-market and reduce the risk of GPS integration forproducts ranging from personal navigators to multimedia playerswith built-in navigation functions. http://www.sarantel.com http://www.u-blox.com FIRETIDE DEPLOYS... SINGAPORE: Firetide, a developer of multi-service meshnetworks, on Thursday announced the successful deployment ofits wireless mesh network at the National Stadium inSingapore. http://www.firetide.com http://www.icellnetwork.com http://www.d-synergy.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text version.)