AsiaNet Daily Summary - Press Releases for Friday March 5

TOKYO: Japan's many attractions to excite and delight foreign tourists need to be more strongly promoted abroad, foreign ambassadors to Japan have told Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

http://www.vjc.jp

BEIJING: The Nasdaq-listed Global Sources Ltd. announces the opening of the second leg of the 9th International IC-China Conference & Exhibition (IIC-China) and 4th Annual Embedded Systems Conferences-China in Beijing today.

http://www.globalsources.com

SYDNEY: Justice Wilcox of the Federal Court of Australia has ordered the Anton Piller order brought against Sharman Networks, owner and distributor of the Kazaa file-sharing application, by the Australian subsidiaries of the major record labels, should not be set aside, but that the material seized must remain in the hands of independent lawyers and an access regime be negotiated between the parties.

http://www.austlii.edu.au/

HONG KONG: Jilin Chemical Industrial Company Limited held its Board meeting on March 3, 2004 where a number of resolutions were passed.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.: The Nasdaq-listed NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, today announced that the NVIDIA nForce3 Go150 media and communications processor has been selected for the HP Pavilion zv5000 and Compaq Presario R3000 notebooks.

http://www.nvidia.com

FREMONT, Calif.: The Ciphergen Diagnostics Division of Ciphergen Biosystems Inc. announced that the ProteinChip System has been certified by the State Food and Drug Administration in China as a Medical Device.

http://www.ciphergen.com

SANTA CLARA, Calif.: NVIDIA Corporation announced that it is the first to offer graphics solutions based on Graphics Double Data Rate 3 (GDDR-3) memory.

http://www.nvidia.com

NEW YORK: Faced with a growing problem of intellectual property abuse in Asia, specifically in China, Korea and Taiwan, Magnequench International, Inc., the patent holder and a world leader in the manufacturing of specialized magnetic powders and magnets, filed suit today in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware and a second suit in Indianapolis, Indiana, against 13 major electronic, office products and computer firms in the United States and Asia, as well as Wal-Mart.

http://www.magnequench.com

PARIS: The Nasdaq-listed Harris Interactive has acquired Novatris S.A., an online market research firm with $3 million in revenue based in Paris, France.

http://www.harrisinteractive.com

VICTORIA: Power Measurement, a provider of enterprise energy management systems, has appointed Rick Suh, sales manager for Korea.

ORLANDO: ASIG has been awarded a concession to provide into-plane fueling services at Bangkok's new Suvarnabhumi Airport.

http://www.asig.com

MIAMI: Drugs used to prevent rejection in transplant patients are proving equally valuable in the fight against lupus nephritis (lupus kidney disease), according to researchers at the University of Miami in a study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine.

MELBOURNE: Global security products group ASSA ABLOY has signed an agreement to acquire successful New Zealand technology-based company, Security Merchants, for an undisclosed sum, paving the way for the mainstream introduction of high technology security products.

http://www.assaabloy.com

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