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AMDL MARKETS TESTING KIT DOWN UNDER

TUSTIN - AMDL Australia Pty. Ltd., Tustin-based AMDL's exclusive distributor, has begun the sale of the company's DR-70 cancer detection test kit in Australia and New Zealand.

Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) had recently granted approval for AMDL to market the kit through the Australian company.

Clinical trials of the test kit have been conducted in Germany, China, Canada, Taiwan and Turkey.

According to the company, cancers that can be detected are lung, colon, breast, stomach, liver, rectal, ovarian, cervical, esophageal, thyroid, pancreatic, trophoblastic, and malignant lymphoma.

CHINA REPORTS MOBILE TELEPHONE STATISTICS

BEIJING - China, the world's largest mobile market by users, produced 130 million handsets last year with overall industry sales reaching $30 billion, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.

About 63 million of the mobile phones produced in China in 2002 were exported with the country's 37 mobile phone makers, both foreign and domestic, chalking up a combined annual production capacity of 150 million phones.
 
China had about 234.5 million mobile phone users at the end of June compared with 206 million users at the end of 2002, said Xinhua.

The industry has drawn more than $10 billion dollars of investment from 1999 to 2002, attracting foreign investors interested in China's telecom sector.
 
Citing statistics from the Ministry of Information Industry, Xinhua said 25 foreign firms had invested more than $4 billion in 2002 and produced 100 million handsets.

Its top handset makers include US-headquartered Motorola Inc.; Nokia of Finland; Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.; TCL International of China; and Sony Ericsson, a joint venture of Japan's Sony Corp. and Ericsson of Sweden.

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