SYDNEY--29 Jul--AsiaNet/InfoQuest AMERICAST SALE... NEW YORK - Castle Harlan, Inc., the New York private equityinvestment firm, announced today that it had agreed to sellAmeriCast Technologies, Inc., a North American leader in thedesign and manufacture of large, complex steel castings, toBradken Ltd., a leading publicly-traded Australian manufacturerof cast steel and other products, primarily for the mining andrailroad industries, in a transaction valued at approximately$288 million.www.castleharlan.comwww.bradken.com.auwww.champmbo.com CHA HOSPITAL... SAN FRANCISCO - The innovative CHA Women's and Children'sHospital in Seoul, Korea, has been selected as one of only fourprojects worldwide to win the 2008, prestigious AmericanInstitute of Architects (AIA) National Healthcare DesignAward.www.kmdarchitects.com RISI BENCHMARKING... BOSTON - RISI, the leading information provider for theglobal forest products industry, today announced the additionof new tissue grade data to their Cost Benchmarking Service,along with a new information delivery method via the AnalyticalCornerstone software platform.www.risiinfo.comwww.risiinfo.com/benchmarking SUN PHARMACEUTICAL... MUMBAI - Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. reported aquarter of strong growth for the first quarter ending June 30,2008. There is significant one-time sales and profit componentin these financials linked to the sales of products that enjoylimited duration marketing exclusivity in the US.www.sunpharma.com TECHINSIGHTS CHALLENGE... SAN FRANCISCO - TechInsights announced today the top 128designs at the start of Phase II in the Microchip PIC32 DesignChallenge, a year-long contest and community sponsored byMicrochip Technology Inc. and Digi-Key Corporation as theexclusive distributor.www.techinsights.comwww.unitedbusinessmedia.comwww.microchip.comwww.digikey.comwww.myPIC32.comwww.cmp-egevents.com/web/esv/home XPOCHEM XPOPHARM... SEOUL - The one-stop marketplace for the fine and specialtychemical and pharmaceutical industries, XpoChem and XpoPharm,will take place at SETEC in Seoul, South Korea, on 5 and 6November 2008, exhibiting a wide range of items in thesefields, from ingredients and intermediates to finishedproducts, equipment and machinery.www.cmpmediakorea.comwww.ksica.or.krwww.kpta.or.krwww.xpochem.comwww.xpopharm.com DENHAM CAPITAL... BEND, Oregon and BOSTON - Vulcan Power Company and DenhamCapital announced today that Denham will invest $145 million innewly issued preferred equity securities of Vulcan. Inaddition, Merrill Lynch Commodity Partners, a principalinvestment fund of Merrill Lynch, will convert its outstandingnotes into Vulcan preferred equity.www.vulcanpower.comwww.denhamcapital.comwww.ml.com MARVELL FOUNDATION... SANTA CLARA, California - The Marvell Foundation, anon-profit organization founded by Marvell, today announced ithas raised over $1.1 million for disaster relief in China andBurma. The company's employees worldwide have donatedapproximately $552,000 -- in excess of $100 per employee.www.marvell.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of FINP securities issues amounting to a total ofUS$8,053,000 on August 7, 2008 at a redemption price equal to100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest.http://www.fanniemae.com HIFN AMCC... LOS GATOS, California and SUNNYVALE, California - Hifn, thecatalyst behind storage and networking innovation, and AppliedMicro Circuits Corporation, a global leader in embedded PowerArchitecture processing, optical transport, and storagesolutions, today announced a working alliance to provide aseries of reference designs for networking and storagesolutions.www.hifn.comwww.amcc.com GENERAL FINANCE... PASADENA, California - General Finance Corporation whichowns Royal Wolf Trading Australia Pty Limited, the leadingprovider of portable storage solutions in Australia and NewZealand, and Mobile Office Acquisition Corp. and itssubsidiary, Pac-Van, Inc., a provider of modular buildings andmobile offices in the United States, today announced that theyhave entered into a definitive merger agreement in atransaction valued at $158.8 million.www.generalfinance.comwww.royalwolf.com.au JEWELLERY FAIR... HYDERABAD - The curtains finally came down on the muchawaited Hyderabad Jewellery, Pearl & Gem Fair 2008 organised byCMP, which brought to an end 4 days of intense businessinteractions between exhibitors, trade visitors and buyers,both from India and overseas. ASIAN PAPER... SINGAPORE - Asian Paper 2008, held during April 23-25, was abig success with a very large and active crowd of 5,019 tradevisitors from an amazing 67 countries attending the show.www.asianpapershow.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.