SYDNEY--30 Apr--AsiaNet/InfoQUest PURE DIGITAL... TAIPEI - Future Waves, a leading supplier of RF solutionsfor the digital broadcasting market, has secured an importantdesign win, for its CMOS RF device, with PURE Digital, adivision of Imagination Technologies and market leadingmanufacturer of DAB digital radios. http://www.f-waves.com CVRD REVISES... RIO DE JANEIRO - Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) herebyannounces that its Board of Directors approved the revision ofits investment budget for 2007 to US$7.351 billion, anincrease of US$ 1.017 billion compared to the US$ 6.334 billionbudget announced in January 26, 2006. http://www.cvrd.com.br SIMPSON THACHER... NEW YORK, BEIJING and HONG KONG - Simpson Thacher & BartlettLLP announced that it has opened an office in Beijing to focuson mergers and acquisitions, private equity and capital marketstransactions for Chinese companies and for internationalcompanies and financial investors interested in China. http://www.simpsonthacher.com DRUG APPLICATION... TOKYO - Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd. announced that KyowaPharmaceutical, Inc., its wholly owned U.S subsidiary,submitted on April 25, 2007 a new drug application (NDA) to theU.S. Food and Drug Administration for Istradefylline(KW-6002),its investigational drug for Parkinson's disease. http://www.kyowa.co.jp/eng/index.htm ARB TRIAL... TOKYO - The clinical outcomes of the JIKEI HEART Study, thelarge- scale clinical trial headed by the Jikei UniversitySchool of Medicine, was today published in the internationallyrenowned medical journal The Lancet. THAI MESSAGE... WASHINGTON - USA for Innovation's Executive Director KenAdelman will today release a message to the people of Thailandregarding the importance of innovation and concerns about theThai Government's recent endorsement of theft of Americanintellectual property. http://worldpoliticswatch.com/article.aspx?id=706 http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/22/news/youtube.php http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow 1899600.cms www.youtube.com/usaforinnovation USA FOR INNOVATION... WASHINGTON - Thailand's Ministry of Health recently launcheda movement to steal American technology by issuing "compulsorylicenses" for patented medical innovations. ELCOTEQ WINS... HONG KONG - Elcoteq Asia-Pacific (APAC) has been recognizedas winner of the Electronics Manufacturing (EM) Asia InnovationAward 2007 in the category of Contract Services. www.elcoteq.com VIETNAM MOU... LAUSANNE - Inter-ministerial body, Central Committee 127(CC127), of the Government of Vietnam has extended itsMemorandum of Understanding (MoU) with SICPA Product SecuritySA (SICPA) to research and deploy solutions againstcounterfeiting and illicit trade in Vietnam. NEW TECHNOLOGY... SANDY BAY - An Australian University has made a highlysignificant scientific development which promises to assistpolice to more efficiently apprehend terrorists responsible forbomb blasts using homemade explosives. www.across.utas.edu.au FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON - Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amounts offive securities issues on May 8 and 9 2007, at a redemptionprice equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed,plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com ARCO CAPITAL... SAN JUAN - Arco Capital Corporation Ltd. announced that ithas completed a US$238.4 million private offering of its commonshares. ACC is a holding company that, through itssubsidiaries, engages in lending and acquisition activitiesprimarily in emerging European and Latin American markets. WEMADE ENTERTAINMENT... FRANKFURT - Wemade Entertainment, Co., Ltd., a leading SouthKorean online game developer and provider, has once againchosen Crytek's CryENGINE for their next upcoming online PCgame, NED, a new and innovative MMORPG which incorporates manyRTS elements. http://www.crytek.com http://www.wemadegames.com AMI HOPES... WASHINGTON - The American Meat Institute (AMI) said it hopesthat a shipment of U.S. beef that cleared Korean customs is asign of new cooperation on U.S. beef imports. http://www.meatami.com OCEANLINX TO... SYDNEY - Oceanlinx Limited, the leading internationaldeveloper of wave technology for renewable energy and cleanwater has, through its US subsidiary, applied to the U.S.Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a preliminarypermit to establish a wave energy facility offshore of Florencein the state of Oregon on the West coast of the UnitedStates. QUADREM REVENUES... BRISBANE - Quadrem International announced its 2007 revenuesare up 27 per cent year-over-year at the close of the firstquarter. http://www.quadrem.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.