SYDNEY--1 Jun--AsiaNet/InfoQuest LICENSING AGREEMENT... BERLIN: ProBioGen, Germany, announced on Thursday thatVirbac has entered into a licensing agreement with ProBioGen todevelop biological product candidates using ProBioGen's novelavian cell lines AGE1. VOTING AGREEMENT... BOSTON: Highfields Capital Management LP has announced thatit has executed a Voting Agreement with Bain Capital Partners,LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. regarding the acquisitionof Clear Channel Communications, Inc. by the private equitygroup. http://www.baincapital.com WU DEPARTS... AUSTIN: Texas American Resources - Asia, Ltd. announced onWednesday the departure of Changlin Wu as President and CountryManager to pursue other interests. http://www.texasarc.com NEW PRESIDENT... AUSTIN: Texas American Resources-Asia Ltd, an affiliate ofTexas American Resources Company, Austin, Texas, has announcedthe appointment of Mr. Francis Chang to the position ofExploration Manager, China. http://www.texasarc.com SAEGIS PLATFORM... NORTH QUINCY, ANTWERP, TOKYO: Thomson CompuMark, the globalleader in trademark research and brand protection solutions anda business of The Thomson Corporation, has announced the launchof its new SAEGIS platform for online trademark screening. http://compumark.thomson.com http://thenewsaegis.com http://www.thomson.com ROBOCUP SOCCER... ATLANTA: The countdown begins for RoboCup 2007 Atlanta. Theworld's most renowned competition for research robotics,RoboCup 2007 Atlanta will be held at Georgia Institute ofTechnology July 3-10. http://www.robocup-us.org http://www.robocup.org http://www.robotics.gatech.edu http://www.kukarobotics.com / MANAGING DIRECTOR... LAUSANNE, BEIJING: Erick Caron, concurrently, CEO ofCognosense SA and Chairman & CEO of its Chinese subsidiary,Cognosense Technology Co. Ltd. is pleased to announce thenomination of Mr. Kevin Tsui, as new Managing Director, China &Asia Pacific region. http://www.cognosense.com COMPANY COVERAGE... NEW YORK: In response to growing customer demand for morefundamental information on Asian companies, Standard & Poor's,the leading provider of financial market intelligence,announced that Compustat has expanded significantly its companycoverage in Taiwan and India. http://www.standardandpoors.com DIGITAL TELEVISION... LINKOPING: Sicon Semiconductor AB and Zoran Corporationannounce that the companies are cooperating on deliveringimproved technologies for digital television products. http://www.siconsemi.com http://www.zoran.com TUMOR TREATMENT... CAMBRIDGE: Mersana Therapeutics, a cancer therapeuticscompany, announced on Wednesday that it has initiated a Phase Iopen-label, dose-escalation trial of its lead productcandidate, XMT-1001, in patients with solid tumors. CHICAGO TOWER... FARMINGTON: Otis Elevator Company, a unit of UnitedTechnologies Corp., won an $11 million order for Aqua, thelatest high-rise tower under construction as part of Chicago'spremier Lakeshore East community. EUROPEAN CRUISE... HONG KONG: Costa Crociere, Europe's largest cruise liner,provides Asian passengers the best European vacation optionwith its newly launched flagship -- Costa Serena, departingfrom Venice to Greece, Turkey and Croatia in summer 2007 andfrom Savona to Canary Islands in winter 2007/2008. http://www.costaserena.net http://www.secondlife.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.