SYDNEY--30 Apr--AsiaNet/InfoQUest
PURE DIGITAL...
TAIPEI - Future Waves, a leading supplier of RF solutions
for the digital broadcasting market, has secured an important
design win, for its CMOS RF device, with PURE Digital, a
division of Imagination Technologies and market leading
manufacturer of DAB digital radios.
http://www.f-waves.com
CVRD REVISES...
RIO DE JANEIRO - Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) hereby
announces that its Board of Directors approved the revision of
its investment budget for 2007 to US$7.351 billion, an
increase of US$ 1.017 billion compared to the US$ 6.334 billion
budget announced in January 26, 2006.
http://www.cvrd.com.br
SIMPSON THACHER...
NEW YORK, BEIJING and HONG KONG - Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
LLP announced that it has opened an office in Beijing to focus
on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and capital markets
transactions for Chinese companies and for international
companies and financial investors interested in China.
http://www.simpsonthacher.com
DRUG APPLICATION...
TOKYO - Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd. announced that Kyowa
Pharmaceutical, Inc., its wholly owned U.S subsidiary,
submitted on April 25, 2007 a new drug application (NDA) to the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration for Istradefylline(KW-6002),
its investigational drug for Parkinson's disease.
http://www.kyowa.co.jp/eng/index.htm
ARB TRIAL...
TOKYO - The clinical outcomes of the JIKEI HEART Study, the
large- scale clinical trial headed by the Jikei University
School of Medicine, was today published in the internationally
renowned medical journal The Lancet.
THAI MESSAGE...
WASHINGTON - USA for Innovation's Executive Director Ken
Adelman will today release a message to the people of Thailand
regarding the importance of innovation and concerns about the
Thai Government's recent endorsement of theft of American
intellectual property.
http://worldpoliticswatch.com/article.aspx?id=706
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/22/news/youtube.php
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow
1899600.cms
www.youtube.com/usaforinnovation
USA FOR INNOVATION...
WASHINGTON - Thailand's Ministry of Health recently launched
a movement to steal American technology by issuing "compulsory
licenses" for patented medical innovations.
ELCOTEQ WINS...
HONG KONG - Elcoteq Asia-Pacific (APAC) has been recognized
as winner of the Electronics Manufacturing (EM) Asia Innovation
Award 2007 in the category of Contract Services.
www.elcoteq.com
VIETNAM MOU...
LAUSANNE - Inter-ministerial body, Central Committee 127
(CC127), of the Government of Vietnam has extended its
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with SICPA Product Security
SA (SICPA) to research and deploy solutions against
counterfeiting and illicit trade in Vietnam.
NEW TECHNOLOGY...
SANDY BAY - An Australian University has made a highly
significant scientific development which promises to assist
police to more efficiently apprehend terrorists responsible for
bomb blasts using homemade explosives.
www.across.utas.edu.au
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON - Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amounts of
five securities issues on May 8 and 9 2007, at a redemption
price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed,
plus accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
ARCO CAPITAL...
SAN JUAN - Arco Capital Corporation Ltd. announced that it
has completed a US$238.4 million private offering of its common
shares. ACC is a holding company that, through its
subsidiaries, engages in lending and acquisition activities
primarily in emerging European and Latin American markets.
WEMADE ENTERTAINMENT...
FRANKFURT - Wemade Entertainment, Co., Ltd., a leading South
Korean online game developer and provider, has once again
chosen Crytek's CryENGINE for their next upcoming online PC
game, NED, a new and innovative MMORPG which incorporates many
RTS elements.
http://www.crytek.com
http://www.wemadegames.com
AMI HOPES...
WASHINGTON - The American Meat Institute (AMI) said it hopes
that a shipment of U.S. beef that cleared Korean customs is a
sign of new cooperation on U.S. beef imports.
http://www.meatami.com
OCEANLINX TO...
SYDNEY - Oceanlinx Limited, the leading international
developer of wave technology for renewable energy and clean
water has, through its US subsidiary, applied to the U.S.
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a preliminary
permit to establish a wave energy facility offshore of Florence
in the state of Oregon on the West coast of the United
States.
QUADREM REVENUES...
BRISBANE - Quadrem International announced its 2007 revenues
are up 27 per cent year-over-year at the close of the first
quarter.
http://www.quadrem.com
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