SYDNEY--1 Aug--AsiaNet/InfoQuest ORIX RENTEC... SINGAPORE - JDSU today announced that its communicationstest and measurement products will be offered for rent, leaseand rent-to-own through ORIX Rentec Pte. Ltd. www.jdsu.com www.orix-rentec.com.sg TITANIUM 2008... BROOMFIELD, Colorado - TITANIUM 2008 is the 24th annualconference and exhibition hosted and organized by Coloradobased International Titanium Association. The conference willbe held at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, September21-24th. www.titanium.org BLOOMBERG OLYMPICS... NEW YORK and HONG KONG - Starting Monday, BLOOMBERGTELEVISION viewers will see live special reports on China fromBloomberg's Beijing and Hong Kong bureaus before, during andimmediately after the Olympic Games. www.bloomberg.com SICHUAN STUDENTS... ALBANY, New York - Twenty two campuses of the StateUniversity of New York's 64-campus system are opening theirdoors for the next year to 150 Chinese undergraduate studentsfrom the Sichuan Province of western China, site of a massiveearthquake in May. www.ny.gov/governor/press www.suny.edu DECOREX 2008 LONDON - Interesting materials used in innovative ways willmark out this year's Decorex as one of the most exciting showson the interiors calendar. DRYARN FIBER... ROTTERDAM - A new metallocene based polypropylene fiberproduced under the trademark Dryarn from Italian syntheticfiber manufacturer Aquafil has been selected by Italiansportswear manufacturer SLAM to create a jersey for thenational sailing team that will compete in Beijing 2008. www.lyondellbasell.com www.aquafil.com www.dryarn.com www.slam.com UTC FIRE... FARMINGTON, Connecticut - UTC Fire & Security todayannounced that it has completed the sale of its Australianguarding and mobile patrols businesses including Chubb SecurityPersonnel Pty Ltd, Chubb Mobile Services Pty Ltd and MSSSecurity Group Pty Ltd. www.utcfireandsecurity.com PIERS SOLUTIONS... NEWARK, New Jersey - PIERS Global Intelligence Solutions, aCommonwealth Business Media company and the leading provider ofU.S. ocean-going trade information, is now offering detaileddata on air cargoes flown into and out of Argentina, Brazil,Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela. www.piers.com www.piers.com/piersproducts.aspx www.cbizmedia.com LINGERIE AWARDS... BEIJING - On July 31st, fashion and design students from 31countries and regions around the world, presented theirshowpieces to the world in a fabulous catwalk show at theTriumph Inspiration Award '08 in Beijing. www.triumphinspirationaward.com 4G MOBILE... NEW YORK - A major push to include embedded 4G technologiesin a wide range of mobile and consumer devices will create abuilt-in market for anticipated 4G services such as mobileWiMax and LTE, but it also will force some fundamental changesin the mobile industry ecosystem, particularly in therelationships between network operators and device suppliers,according to the latest report from Unstrung Insider, a paidresearch service from TechWeb's Unstrung and Light Reading. www.unstrung.com www.lightreading.com www.unstrung.com/insider http://img.lightreading.com/uni/pdf/uni0708_companies.pdf FOOD TRACEABILITY... SAN FRANCISCO - TechInsights announced the final agenda forthe "Food Traceability: Securing the Food Supply Chain"workshop to be held during the RFID World 2008 conference inLas Vegas at the MGM Grand, September 8-10. www.techinsights.com www.rfid-world.com/2008 Glass Lewis... SAN FRANCISCO - Glass, Lewis & Co., LLC, a leadingindependent proxy advisory and investment research firm,announced today that it has signed the Principles forResponsible Investment, a United Nations initiative. www.glasslewis.com SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS... WICHITA, Kansas - Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. reportedsecond quarter 2008 financial results reflecting revenue andearnings growth across the company as ship set deliveries forlarge commercial aircraft increased and lower period expenseswere realized. www.spiritaero.com MICREL APPLICATION... SAN JOSE, California - Micrel Inc., an industry leader inanalog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet ICsolutions, today launched the MIC5313/4/5/6, a new family oflow input voltage capable, low dropout regulators. www.micrel.com ROYAL GOLD... DENVER - ROYAL GOLD, INC., the leading precious metalsroyalty company, announced that it has entered into adefinitive agreement to acquire a portfolio of royalties fromBarrick Gold Corporation for net cash consideration of $150million and a restructuring of certain Royal Gold royaltypositions at Barrick's Cortez Pipeline Mining Complex inNevada. www.royalgold.com BAT RESULTS... LONDON - British American Tobacco today released its interimreport to 30 June 2008. AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.