SYDNEY--19 Feb--AsiaNet/InfoQuest SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS... WICHITA, Kansas - Spirit AeroSystems announced today that ithas been awarded a contract to provide overhaul, repair, andmodification services for Cathay Pacific Airways' fleet of 777Trent 800 thrust reversers.www.spiritaero.com DIGI GATEWAY... MINNETONKA, Minnesota - Digi International today introducedthe ConnectPort X2, a wireless gateway about the size of a deckof cards that links ZigBee/802.15.4 device networks with IPnetworks over Wi-Fi or Ethernet connections.www.xprn.com/xprn/sa/200706131247.jpg FAVOURITE VEHICLES... CHICAGO - Consumer voters proclaimed their favorites in fivecategories in the Chicago Auto Show's third annual Best of Showballoting.www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080218/CLM076www.newscom.com/cgi-http://ChicagoAutoShow.com JPMORGAN LAUNCH... HONG KONG - JPMorgan Asia Pacific today announced a majorexpansion into private equity investment, as part of itsregional growth strategy. The firm is committing an initialUS$750 million to mid-market private equity investmentopportunities in Asia Pacific.www.jpmorganchase.com CARBON CAPTURE ... BRISBANE - An Australian-based company has acquired theAsia-Pacific rights to the world's most advanced carbon captureand storage system. EESTech Inc., which is based in Brisbane,Australia and is publicly traded on the US Bulletin Board, hassecured the rights to HTC Purenergys world leading CO2 capturemanagement technologies for the Australasian region.www.eestechinc.com.www.drpr.com.au VALE BENCHMARK... RIO DE JANEIRO - Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, the world'slargest iron ore producer, concluded the iron ore pricenegotiations for 2008 with Nippon Steel Corporation, thelargest Japanese steelmaker, and POSCO, the largest Koreansteelmaker.www.vale.com GLOBAL PREMATURITY... SEATTLE - Seattle Children's Hospital Research Instituteannounced today that it has received a US$1 million grant fromthe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to study ways to preventglobal prematurity and stillbirth. Prematurity claims the livesof over 1 million newborn babies worldwide each year.www.seattlechildrens.org/prematurity SGI PRESIDENT AWARDED... TOKYO - At a ceremony at the Russian Embassy in Tokyo, Mr.Daisaku Ikeda, president of the Soka Gakkai InternationalBuddhist association, was today conferred with the Order ofFriendship on behalf of the Russian Federation by AmbassadorMikhail M. Bely. NETDRAGON GAME... HONG KONG - One of the leading game developers and operatorsin the PRC, NetDragon Websoft Inc. with its subsidiary,collectively the "Group", is pleased to announce that its newgame "Way of the Five" has been honoured by the PRC Ministry ofCulture's Examination Committee for Game Content by beingincluded in its third list of "Healthy Online Games forYoungsters." NEW EVP AIX-EN-PROVENCE - Payment software provider WelcomeReal-time today announced the appointment of Henri-Louis deVilmorin as EVP Global Sales.www.welcome-rt.com ENCORE POWDER... AMHERST, Ohio - The Industrial Coating Systems division ofNordson Corporation has introduced the revolutionary new Encoremanual powder spray system. Packed with features, the Encoresystem provides coaters with unsurpassed ease of use, coatingcapability and operating control for an unprecedented level ofcoating performance on demand.www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080218/CLM015 AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.