SYDNEY--22 May--AsiaNet/InfoQuestCONFUCIUS INSTITUTE... BEIJING: A comprehensive effort to teach Chinese languageand culture in Arizona's elementary and secondary schools is amajor focus of a new Arizona State University-SichuanUniversity Joint Confucius Institute. www.asu.edu/china RARITAN INTRODUCES... SOMERSET, New Jersey: Raritan has unveiled itsnext-generation KVM-over-IP switch, the Dominion KX II. On anew, easy-to-deploy and scalable appliance platform, theDominion KX II delivers more powerful productivity features tohelp IT organizations access and manage servers from anywherethereby improving data centre efficiency. www.raritan.com www.Raritan-AP.com SIDLEY AUSTIN... HONG KONG: International law firm Sidley Austin advised J.P.Morgan Securities Limited and ING Bank, London Branch, asinitial purchasers in connection with the issuance by IndoIntegrated Energy B.V. of its US$250 million 8.50 per centSenior Notes due 2012. The Notes are guaranteed by the issuer'sparent, PT Indika Inti Energi, a leading Indonesian energyconglomerate with a 46.0 per cent equity interest in thethird-largest coal mine in Indonesia. WONDERJOCK SWIMWEAR... SYDNEY: Hot on the heels of the WONDERJOCK UNDERWEAR,all-Australian mens swimwear and underwear company aussieBumreleases the all new WONDERJOCK SWIMWEAR. www.aussiebum.com SEARCH TECHNOLOGY... WELLINGTON: VortexDNA predictive search technology hasproven its ability to increase click rates by up to 14 per cent- an increase that, for a company like Google, could translateto additional revenue of more than $800 million per year. http://vortexdna.com http://blog.vortexdna.com PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT... MONTEREY PARK, California: First California Equity Group,LLC, recently announced plans to redevelop the property locatedat 220 North Atlantic Boulevard, Monterey Park, the former siteof the Sunday Cafe restaurant. The project was approved on May8, 2007 by the City of Monterey Park Planning Committee. MEGA JACKPOT... LONDON: InterCasino's Millionaires Club Slot has given awaythe world's biggest ever online jackpot of over US$8 million. Afactory worker who was playing for the first time claimed theprize, which was won on 15th May 2007. www.intercasino.com www.Intercasino.co.uk www.Gambling.com www.NETELLER.com MOBILE CONTENT... MOUNTAIN VIEW, California: Mobile Content Networks (MCN) aleading global provider of mobile search solutions, hasannounced its selection by AIS, Thailand's largest mobileoperator with 21 million subscribers, to provide mobile contentsearch services for AIS's mobileLIFE WAP portal. In addition,MCN will provide customized search for AIS's popular MusicClick services. www.ais.co.th www.mcn-inc.com TECHNOLOGY SERVICES... RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, North Carolina: QuintilesTransnational Corp. and Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. haveannounced the creation of a joint venture, called Cenduit, thatprovides seamless, integrated Interactive Response Technologyservices for pharmaceutical and biotechnology productdevelopment. www.quintiles.com www.thermofisher.com SECURITY SYSTEM... LONDON: securePay, a new transaction security system to foilinternet, mail and telephone card fraud, has been announced bythe Telsecure Group. The launch by Telsecure, a UK-basedprovider of leading-edge technology, is being made inassociation with partners, Sybase365 and Ingenico. www.telsecure.com CAROTID STENTS... PARIS: Boston Scientific Corporation welcomes results from alarge independent registry confirming the benefit ofclosed-cell stents in patients with carotid artery stenosis. www.bostonscientific.com HEAVY.COM ANNOUNCES... NEW YORK: Heavy, one of the web's leading online brands andthe leader for 18-34 year-old guys, has announced theappointment of Mr. Michael Greenlees to Heavy's Board ofDirectors. www.heavy.com BLANCCO INCLUDED... JOENSUU: Blancco Ltd., the world's leading data erasuresoftware company has recently been included in the NATOInformation Assurance Catalog. Now NATO Members may use Blancco- Data Cleaner+ v4.5 HMG to erase hard drives without fear ofdata leakage or loss. www.blancco.com FUJITSU ANNOUNCES... SUNNYVALE, California, LANGEN and SHANGHAI: FujitsuMicroelectronics America, Inc., Fujitsu MicroelectronicsEurope, Fujitsu Microelectronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., andFujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd. have announced thespecifications and delivery schedule for the company's mobilebaseband System-on-Chip, its next wave of innovation in WiMAXsilicon solutions. www.fma.fujitsu.com http://emea.fujitsu.com/microelectronics http://us.fujitsu.com/micro/wimax www.fujitsu.com/downloads/MICRO/fma/product/bwa/WiMAX2.zip www.fujitsu.com/downloads/MICRO/fma/pdf/wimax_mobilefs.pdf ANADIGICS INTRODUCES... WARREN, New Jersey: ANADIGICS, Inc. has announced theavailability of the ABA3130, a single-chip, low-noise, highlinearity RF amplifier with integrated gain control. Thisdevice is the latest addition to ANADIGICS' portfolio of RFproducts for cable TV front end applications. www.anadigics.com EXTRICOM LAUNCHES... LAS VEGAS: Interop 2007 - Extricom, the designer andmanufacturer of the award-winning Interference-Free WirelessLAN System, has announced another significant milestone in theevolution of WLAN with the unveiling of the EXRP-40, theindustry's first four-radio access point. www.extricom.com NEW7WONDERS WEBSITE... ZURICH: The New7Wonders website is now amongst the top oneper cent of the world's most popular websites. The site is atthe heart of the first-ever global election, to choose the New7 Wonders of the World. www.new7wonders.com SANOFI LAUNCHES... VANCOUVER: Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of thesanofi-aventis Group, has announced the launch of a new website to help travelers prepare for their trip by providinginformation about travel-related infectious diseases andimmunization recommendations: www.travel-vaccines.com. www.sanofipasteur.com www.sanofipasteur.us HILL & ASSOCIATES... BEIJING: Hill & Associates, Asia's largest risk management &business intelligence consultancy firm has announced acollaboration with Citadel International, a major eventsservice provider, to jointly provide security & hospitalityservices at the 2008 Beijing Olympics Games. www.hill-assoc.com www.citadel-intl.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.