Carlyle Offers to Buy ASE

The Carlyle Group has offered to buy Taiwan-based Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (NYSE: ASX) for $5.94 per American depository share, or around $5.5 billion overall. ASE Chairman Jason Chang is part of the Carlyle-led consortium. www.carlyle.com www.aseglobal.com< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />