sydney--28 Aug--AsiaNet/InfoQuestLIQUIDNET JAPAN... NEW YORK: Liquidnet, the largest electronic marketplace forinstitutional-only block trading, Monday announced the appointment of its Japanleadership team that will drive the company's expansion into Asian equities. http://www.liquidnet.com RESOURCE TOOLKIT... KYOTO, Japan: Religions for Peace and the Millennium Campaign Fridaylaunched a resource toolkit to help religious communities advocate for theMillennium Development Goals (MDGs). http://www.religionsforpeace.org VIOLENCE REJECTED... KYOTO, Japan: More than 800 senior religious leaders from every region ofthe world and all major faith traditions on Friday convened to reject violenceand the "hijacking of religion" at the Religions for Peace World Assembly inKyoto, Japan. http://www.religionsforpeace.org GEMPLUS SHARES... AMSTERDAM, Netherlands and LUXEMBOURG: Gemalto N.V. and Gemplus International S.A. Friday announced that followingthe public exchange offer by Gemalto N.V. for the Gemplus International S.A.shares and warrant, 324,481,977 shares have been tendered to the offer,representing 94.56% of the share capital and 94.68% of the voting rights ofGemplus International S.A., as well as the warrant issued by GemplusInternational S.A. http://www.gemalto.com ACQUISITION DEAL... INGELHEIM, NEW YORK and LUGANO: Boehringer Ingelheim, the Germany-basedpharmaceutical company, and IdeaSphere Inc., the New York-based healthcarecompany, specializing in vitamins, minerals, nutrition products and herbs,Friday announced the sale of Boehringer Ingelheim's Natural Healthcare companyand business Pharmaton SA (Lugano) to IdeaSphere. http://www.pharmaton-sa.ch http://www.ideasphereinc.com TRADE FAIR... TOKYO: Japan Machine Tool Builders' Association, along with Tokyo Big SightInc., will hold the eight day long JIMTOF2006 (23rd Japan International MachineTool Fair) at the Tokyo International Exhibition Center from Wednesday,November 1, 2006 to Wednesday, November 8, 2006. http://www.jimtof.org/Eng TOSHIBA SPONSORS... HANOI: Toshiba Corporation Friday announced that the company will initiateand support a series of lectures at Hanoi University of Technology (HUT), thatwill focus on key themes in nuclear power systems and engineering. (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.)