SYDNEY, June 27--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
BEIJING CLINIC...
BEIJING: Chindex International, Inc., an independent
American provider of Western healthcare products and medical
services in China, today announced the opening of its United
Family Downtown Clinic in Beijing.
http://www.chindex.com
http://www.unitedfamilyhospitals.com
STACKING LINK...
SAN DIEGO: Vativ Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of
innovative DSP-based silicon solutions, announced today the
introduction of a reduced-cost, 10Gbps stacking link IC to its
V10LAN product line. V10LAN is the industry's first and only
family of single-chip 10-Gigabit Ethernet transceivers for
full-duplex operation over a single CAT5e unshielded
twisted-pair cable.
http://www.vativ.com/products.php?productfamily=lan /
EXPANSION ANNOUNCED...
REDWOOD CITY: Nominum, the leading provider of IP address
infrastructure solutions, today announced its expansion into
South America and the Asia-Pacific region, with the start of
operations in Australia, China, Singapore, and Brazil. Local
Nominum resources are now available in these countries to
assist companies looking for commercial grade DNS and DHCP
solutions.
http://www.nominum.com
NOBEL LAUREATES...
LINDAU: Count Bjorn Bernadotte welcomed the 44 Nobel
Laureates of Chemistry, Physics and Medicine/Physiology and
over 700 scientists of tomorrow from 54 countries. The Bavarian
State Minister for Science, Research and Art, Dr. Thomas
Goppel, described the Meeting of Nobel Laureates as an "Olympus
of world-wide research."
http://www.lindau-nobel.de
BRAZILIAN HEALTH...
BRASILIA: The Ministry of Health of Brazil has declared the
anti-retroviral drug Kaletra (Lopinavir/ritonavir),
manufactured by Abbott Laboratories, to be of public interest.
As such, the Brazilian government will adopt obligatory
licensing of the medication, in the case that the manufacturer
does not provide the necessary requirements to guarantee the
sustainability of the National STD/AIDS Program.
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal
amount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$325
million on July 5 and 6, 2005 at a redemption price equal to
100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued
interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
SWITZERLAND WEBSITE...
BERN: Mountains and money, chocolate and cheese are just a
few of the cliches about Switzerland. But there's much more to
the Swiss than this. www.swissworld.org provides information
on (almost!) everything anyone might want to know about this
unusual country. www.swissworld.org is even running a
competition whose prize is a study trip to Switzerland to see
behind the scenes.
http://www.presence.ch
http://www.swissworld.org
THAILAND JOINT-VENTURES...
PARIS: Valeo announced that it has signed an agreement to
acquire an additional 35.9% of the capital of the joint
ventures Siam Zexel Co., Ltd and Zexel Sales Thailand Co., Ltd.
in Thailand to bring its ownership to 74.9 % of the capital and
voting rights of these companies.
http://www.valeo.com
CNOOC STATEMENT...
BEIJING: Statement by Fu Chengyu, Chairman & CEO of CNOOC
Limited: "We are extremely pleased that Unocal has indicated
today [Friday 24th June
] they will begin engaging in talks
concerning our all cash offer. We are prepared to start
immediately. As we indicated upon announcing our bid, we
believe this offer brings superior value to Unocal
shareholders..."
www.cnoocltd.com
www.transactioninfo.com/cnooc
IBM INTRODUCES...
SHANGHAI: IBM has introduced the world's first supply-chain
business transformation outsourcing (BTO) capability. The new
offering will tap into IBM's rich internal supply chain
experience and deep consulting expertise, as well as new IBM
analytics technologies, to optimize and help businesses operate
end-to-end supply chain processes, from procurement and
logistics to strategy and planning.
www.ibm.com/services
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