An Executive Briefing in joint ventures for June 5, 2001, prepared by Asia Pulse, real-time, Asia-son of exclusive news, Commercial and business intelligence.

NTT, Matsushita, join a multi-channel test shipments

TOKYO - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (TSE: 6752), Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (TSE: 9405) and members of the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (TSE: 9432) Group said Monday that together with a test multi-channel broadcasting.

The company is developing a system of both projectiles transfer several different angles of a single event, like a game of baseball or a concert for venting on television and the Internet broadband networks.

Vivendi Universal MULLS sale of the stake in BSkyB: paper

LONDON - The media group Vivendi Universal french east, according to reports is considering selling its stake STG3 billion to British Sky Broadcasting - a step the media Mogulanlagen Rupert Mudoch control of the satellite broadcasting network created there.

Vivendi chief Jean-Marie Messier said he does not want to Offload its stake from 23 per cent of BSkyB on the market and looking for an asset swap.

IIFT, DSIR To set INDIAN Int’l Center for trade with technology

New Delhi - The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) in India today an agreement with the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) for the establishment of a centre for international trade with technology.

Set up in IIFT, the Centre for Research on problems that emerge in trade and technology to identify opportunities for the export of India, a statement of IIFT said here.

ONGC India to increase the participation of energy in Cairns, 40 pct JV

NEW DELHI J - State Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) increases its share of 40 per cent in the Gulf of Khambat its oil and gas joint venture Cairns block energy in the United Kingdom.

“We decided that the participation of 40 per cent in Lakshmi find oil in the CB-OS / 2 oil and gas in the Gulf of Khambat block,” said a senior ONGC PTI here.