AsiaNet Daily Summary - Press Releases for Wednesday November 19

NEW YORK & OSLO: A survey by RoperASW, an NOP World company and TANDBERG, a global provider of video communication systems and services, finds that the methods businesses use most heavily to communicate outside the office -- e-mail and phone -- are insufficient to establish the foundation for smart business decisions.

HONG KONG: Global Sources Ltd today released the results of a survey revealing that 80 per cent of buyers are willing to pay a premium to purchase Taiwan products as opposed to buying direct from mainland China. Product quality was considered the main reason for buyers' preference for Taiwan products.

www.globalsources.com

LUXEMBOURG and PARIS: Gemplus International S.A. has developed a traditional smart card whose OS incorporates programming of a cryptographic kernel to allow real-time deciphering capacity increase of up to 400 times the original speed.

www.gemplus.com

GENT: To mark World COPD Day, leading lung experts from across the world have adopted a new approach to tackle the dangerously low rates of diagnosis in COPD. Currently it is estimated that up to 50 per cent of people with the disease worldwide are undiagnosed.

www.goldcopd.com

NEW YORK: PricewaterhouseCoopers announced today that aggregated net revenues of PricewaterhouseCoopers firms for fiscal year 2003 were $14.7 billion (compared to $13.8 billion in fiscal year 2002). With reimbursed client expenses included, aggregated gross revenues totaled $16 billion.

www.pwcglobal.com

SYDNEY: Financial Network Services (FNS), a global banking software and services provider, today announced an extension of its long term relationship with Oracle Corporation.

www.fns.com.au

TORONTO: Sockeye Solutions Corporation, a developer of Adaptive Supply Chain Collaboration Applications, today announced its Service Parts Collaboration (SPC) Template 3.0. SPC 3.0 allows business users to configure applications to exploit the unique requirements of their distributed serviceorganization.

www.sockeyesolutions.com

LONDON: The Lymphoma Coalition, a non-profit network organisation of lymphoma patient groups, has today revealed distressingly low levels of awareness of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, following detailed patient research across Europe. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is the third fastest-growing form of cancer worldwide, after skin melanoma and lung cancer.

www.lymphomacoalition.org

BRISBANE: Progen Industries Limited announced that following the lodgement of the Bonus Options Issue form 3B and Prospectus, the record date for the Bonus Options Issue will be November 28, 2003. Shareholders on this date will be eligible to participate in the Bonus Options Issue at no cost.

HONG KONG: China Cable and Communication, Inc. today announced the launch of a new website as part of its corporate branding and communications efforts. The website is now available at www.ChinaCable.us

HONG KONG: CDC Software, a wholly owned subsidiary and software unit of chinadotcom corporation, today announced that it has made a conditional proposal to acquire Pivotal Corporation by way of either an all-cash or a cash-and-stock transaction.

www.corp.china.com

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