INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR...
SINGAPORE: Pacific Internet Limited or PacNet, Asia's largest
telco-independent Internet Communications Service Provider by geographical
reach, Friday announced the appointment of Mr. Chua Kee Lock as an independent
director to its Board.
http://www.pacnet.com
REVENUE JUMPS...
HONG KONG & LOS ANGELES, Calif.: LJ International, Inc., one of the
fastest-growing fine jewelry companies in the world, Friday reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2004, including a 40 per cent rise in revenue and doubling of earnings per share.
http://www.ljintl.com
PROFIT GROWS...
HONG KONG: Techtronic Industries Co. Ltd. Friday reported net profit of
HK$299 million for the six months ended 30th June 2004, representing 41.8%
growth over the same period last year.
http://www.ttigroup.com
OLYMPIC BETS...
SYDNEY: Centrebet is offering odds on every event at the Athens Olympics and is taking bets at 33-1 that Commonwealth Games champ Beatrice Faumuina wins gold in the women's discus after carrying New Zealand's flag at the Games opening ceremony.
http://www.centrebet.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of one
securities issue amounting to US$25 million on Aug 22, 2004 at a redemption
price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued
interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
GRAPHICS PROCESSORS...
QUAKECON 2004, GRAPEVINE, Texas: NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, Thursday introduced the GeForce 6600 GT and
GeForce 6600, the latest additions to its GeForce 6 Series of graphics
processing units (GPUs).
http://www.nvidia.com
EQUATOR PRINCIPLES...
SAO PAULO: Banco Itau and Banco Itau BBA have just subscribed to the Equator Principles in line with their values of social responsibility and corporate governance.
http://www.itau.com
http://www.ifc.org
NEW PRESIDENT...
VANCOUVER: Vancouver-based gold miner Placer Dome Thursday announced the
appointment of Peter Tomsett as the company's new President and CEO with effect from Sept 15, 2004.
http://www.placerdome.com
BREAST CANCER...
BASEL: Femara (letrozole) has been approved in Switzerland via fast track
procedure for the extended adjuvant treatment of postmenopausal women with
hormone receptor positive or unknown early breast cancer who have received
post-surgery tamoxifen therapy for five years, Novartis announced Thursday.
http://www.novartis.com
http://www.femara.com
http://www.novartisoncology.com
http://www.novartisoncologyvpo.com
PASSENGER GROWTH...
FRANKFURT/MAIN: Frankfurt Airport, the largest German airport, once again
registered almost 4.8 million passengers in July 2004, up 5.6 per cent
year-on-year.
http://www.fraport.de
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