SYDNEY--30 Aug--AsiaNet / InfoQuest CHISSO OPENS... BERLIN: Chisso Corporation, a leading Japanese chemicalscorporation, is opening its new European representative officein the Adlershof technology and science park on September 1st.The park sits in southeastern Berlin, and is quickly becoming apopular location for high tech companies expanding in Europe.Chisso is the first Japanese investor to open in Adlershof. www.invest-in-germany.com CHARLES RIVER... MELBOURNE: Charles River Development (Charles River), anaward-winning provider of financial software and services tothe global investment management community, has launched itsJapan User Group, an executive forum for Charles River'sdomestic and international Japanese clients. KYOTO CITY... KYOTO: The City of Kyoto will undertake a campaign from thisDecember to next March in a bid to attract foreign touristsduring the winter months. The "Kyoto Winter Special" drive, thecity's first attempt of the kind, will be timed with thecentral government's "Visit Japan" campaign. www.KyotoWinterSpecial.com TRADING TECHNOLOGIES... CHICAGO, TOKYO and SINGAPORE: Trading TechnologiesInternational, Inc. announced it is expanding its Asianexchange connectivity through new initiatives with the TokyoCommodity Exchange and Singapore Exchange. www.tradingtechnologies.com VISA ANNOUNCES... SAN FRANCISCO: Visa announces the individuals who will serveas members of Visa Inc.'s Board of Directors after thecompletion of the proposed restructuring and the appointment ofByron Pollitt, Jr. as Chief Financial Officer designate of VisaInc. www.corporate.visa.com ADAPTIVE PLANET... BREDA: Adaptive Planet BV, the project leading systemintegrator, and its project partners, RFCyber and MICHAELLETTERER-PM&C, have announced the industry's first commercialNear Field Communication (NFC) Mobile POS deployment, using NFCchip technology from NXP Semiconductors (formerly PhilipsSemiconductors) and NFC enabled mobile phones from Nokia. www.adaptiveplanet.com www.nfc-forum.org www.rfcyber.com www.ml-pmc.com IMPORTANT BREAKTHROUGH... JEFFERSON, North Carolina: `This is the most importantbreakthrough in pulmonary drug delivery in my lifetime,' statesDr. Tom Stern, Pulmonologist and medical consultant for NextSafety Inc. The breakthrough in pulmonary drug deliveryrecently announced by Next Safety is basic in nature and hasbroad implications for the treatment of a number of medicalconditions. www.nextsafety.com AWARDS DINNER... NEW YORK: Platts, one of the world's leading energyinformation providers and a division of The McGraw-HillCompanies, along with this year's sponsor, Logical InformationMachines, will announce its annual Platts Top 250 Global EnergyCompanies rankings on September 13, 2007. The awards will bepresented during the Top 250 Asia Awards Dinner at the FourSeasons Hotel in Singapore. The awards dinner will also featurea keynote address by Mr. Lee Yi Shyan, Singapore's Minister ofState for Trade and Industry. www.platts.com www.platts.com/top250 www.mcgraw-hill.com AMBIRONTRUSTWAVE ACQUIRES... CHICAGO and LONDON: AmbironTrustWave, a leading provider ofdata security and compliance management solutions worldwide,has acquired London-based One-SEC Ltd., the leading provider ofPayment Card Industry Data Security Standard compliancesolutions for businesses and organizations in Europe, theMiddle East and Africa. The deal is closed, and its terms willremain confidential. www.atwcorp.com STARTECH ENVIRONMENTAL... WILTON, Connecticut: Startech Environmental Corporation, afully reporting company, announced that it has signed thepurchase contract and received a 10 per cent cash down-paymentfrom Plasma Processing Technologies Ltd of England and Walesfor its first purchase of a Plasma Converter System. www.startech.net LA AUTOSHOW... LOS ANGELES, California: Opening in less than 90 days, the2007 Los Angeles Auto Show will feature at least a dozen worldpremieres of production and/or concept vehicles from nine topautomakers during the show's media days November 14 and 15.Audi, Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Nissan,Toyota and Volkswagen are all confirmed to unveil one or moreproduction and/or concept vehicles at this year's show. www.laautoshow.com ASTRAZENECA APPROVAL... LONDON: AstraZeneca announced the Netherlands regulatoryauthority MEB (Medicines Evaluation Board) has approvedSEROQUEL XR (quetiapine fumarate) Extended-Release Tablets, aonce-daily medicine for the treatment of schizophrenia in adultpatients. ASIA NETCOM.... HONG KONG: The world's largest academic network, CERNET (TheChina Education and Research Network), has selected AsiaNetcom's IP Transit service to boost the performance of itsglobal Internet connectivity. www.asianetcom.com www.edu.cn PRYSMIAN ACQUIRES... MILAN: Prysmian Cables & Systems, a worldwide leading playerin the cable industry, has reached an agreement to purchase thebusiness assets of New Zealand cable manufacturer,International Wire & Cable Company Limited. DATACRAFT DEAL... SINGAPORE: Datacraft, the region's leading independent ITsolutions and services company, has won a deal to helpThailand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs to upgrade its existingnetwork to support current need as well as future applicationswhich will inevitably require higher bandwidth. www.datacraft-asia.com IDENTEC SOLUTIONS... LUSTENAU and DALLAS: IDENTEC SOLUTIONS, the global leader inwireless tracking and tracing solutions that includesaward-winning intelligent long-range active RFID technology,announces the grand opening of its new Asia regional officebased in Hong Kong. www.identecsolutions.com MIKRON TECHNOLOGY... URDORF: Mikron Technology Group, one of the world's leadingproviders of customer-specific manufacturing and assemblysystems, has chosen Verizon Business to implement and manage anew communications network to link Mikron's offices in Europe,North America and Asia. www.mikron.com www.verizonbusiness.com www.verizon.com/news AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions