AsiaNet Daily Summary - Press Releases for Wednesday July 30.

BURLINGTON: InterGen and ConocoPhillips have begun work on Singapore's first private sector gas supply venture the Island Power project, a 720 MW natural gas power station located on Jurong Island, according to a media report. www.intergen.com

RICHARDSON: Korean ISP Hanaro Telecom hopes to begin testing non-line-of-sight wide-area wireless broadband technology this month for Texan company Navini Networks, a media release said. http://ir.hanaro.com/eng or www.navini.com

MINNEAPOLIS: Communications provider Verizon has chosen global ISP RemotePipes to provide the infrastructure to facilitate its entry into the prepaid internet services market, a company report said. www.verizon.com or www.remotepipes.net

NEEDHAM: Fujitsu's Perfect Station Fax optical character recognition (OCR) package, incorporating Brooktrout's advanced OCR technology, takes the automatic processing of fax orders to new heights of accuracy, a release said. www.ssl.fujitsu.com or www.brooktrout.com

MILPITAS: California Micro Devices launched an electromagnetic interference (EMI) filter with low capacitance electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection for LCD wireless handsets, the company said today. www.calmicro.com

HOUSTON: Development of the world's first ‘alternative energy’ floating fuel-grade methanol plant, designed to extract natural gas from reserves in remote areas to convert into liquid methanol, is underway, PetroWorld said. www.twoil.com

MILPITAS: Centurion advanced zener process technology can significantly enhance the EMI filter performance and ESD protection levels in Application Specific Integrated Passive (ASIP) devices, California Micro Devices announced today. www.calmicro.com

RIO DE JANEIRO: Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, the world's largest exporter of iron ore, issued US $250 million worth of export securitisation notes to reduce its capital costs, a media release said.www.cvrd.com.br

LAKE FOREST: Western Digital received approval to acquire all assets of the now bankrupt Read-Rite, including its US wafer fabrication plant, a release said.www.westerndigital.com

BEIJING: C1 Energy will post translations of Platts Asia's English releases on its site to meet the increasing local demand for information, a report said. www.c1energy.net or www.platts.com or www.mcgraw-hill.com

MILPITAS: California Micro Devices enhanced its performance regulators for Double Data Rate (DDR) SDRAM memory and CPU front side bus termination with thermal packaging options for higher-current applications, a statement said. www.calmicro.com

TORONTO: Nivelli International is on the look out for a talented Indian band to contribute background music and original songs to the local release of the film Plots With A View, a media statement said.

LONDON: British American Tobacco recorded a 2% increase in operating profits for the quarter ending June 30, the company announced today.www.bat.com

TORONTO: Sun Life Financial recorded shareholders' net income of CND $366 million for the second quarter of 2003, a company statement said.www.sunlife.com

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