June 15/PRNewswire-AsiaNet
E-BUSINESS GROWS IN CHINA...
HONG KONG: e-business experts, Ion Global, have scored five new clients in China, China Eastern Airlines, Shanghai Cable Network, Matsushita China and Nanyang Brothers Tobacco, the company announced today.
GLOBAL METAL CONFERENCE...
TORONTO: Metal producers who met at yesterday's PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Metals & Mining Conference, were told that while the jury's still out on the fate of the U.S economy, demand was still healthy from subservient industries like housing and car manufacturing.
VIDEOS FOR COMMUTERS...
GAITHERSBURG: Singapore's transport network will be upgraded with video-based passenger information systems, Optelecom Inc, the company that has been awarded the tender reported today.
ONLINE AUTO ALLIANCE...
DETROIT: CSM Worldwide, the automotive intelligence supplier, and online publishers, AutoAsia, will team to provide automotive industry professionals with Asian market data and forecasts on the Web, CSM announced today.
WESTERN HOSPITALITY FOR EASTERN ISLE...
PHOENIX: The Best Western Hotel Group, the world's largest, has hoisted its flag atop a new 274-room Hong Kong property, Rosedale on the Park, the company said today.
NASDAQ TO EXAMINE STOCK...
HONG KONG: PacificNet.com Inc said today that it is due to appear before the Nasdaq Listings Qualifications Panel to discuss the continued listing of the company's common stock on July 12.
EQUITY DEAL...
HONG KONG: IT solutions provider, PacificNet.com Inc will take an 51 per cent equity stake in China Holley Group, to provide energy and procurement management, the company has said after signing an in-principle agreement.
KOREAN RESELLER CHOSEN...
SINGAPORE: Auspex Systems Inc, the network storage supplier, today announced it has chosen KDC to resell its software products in the Korean market.
EXECUTIVE MOVEMENTS:
CAMBRIDGE: Millenium Pharmaceuticals Inc today named Kevin Starr as executive vice president, business operations and chief financial officer, and Robert "Bob" Tepper as chief scientific officer and executive vice president, discovery, saying that both promotions would accelerate "the drug discovery and development process, as well as its aggressive strategy to deliver breakthrough products to the market".
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