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KYOWA RECEIVES… TOKYO - Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd. (President: Dr. Yuzuru Matsuda) announced that Kyowa Pharmaceutical, Inc. (New Jersey, United States), its wholly owned U.S. subsidiary, received on February 25, 2008 (local time) a Not approvable letter from the U.S.

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for istradefylline (KW-6002), its investigational drug for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. http://www.kyowa.co.jp/eng/index.htm FARO LAUNCHES… LAKE MARY - FARO Technologies, Inc., the world leader in portable computer-aided measurement hardware and software, announced Thursday the launch of its new family of 3-D Laser Scanners called Photon 80 and Photon20. http://www.faro.com STORM PARTNERS… MOUNTAIN VIEW - Meshcom Technologies, a leading provider of mesh technology and Storm Semiconductor, leading manufacturer of high performance Gigabit network processors for wireless networks and network storage applications, Thursday announced a partnership to roll out a total solution for Wi-Fi mesh access point designs. http://www.meshcom.com http://www.stormsemi.com DARA APPOINTS… RALEIGH - DARA BioSciences announced Thursday the appointment of Haywood D. Cochrane, Jr. to the Board of Directors. http://www.darabio.com EXECUTIVES ATTEND… WASHINGTON - UATP and Airline Business magazine present Airline Distribution 2008, a global conference focusing on distribution and issues facing the airline industry today; 22-24 April, Kuala Lumpur, the Mandarin Oriental. http://www.uatp.com COMPANIES JOIN… CAIRO - Tejari, the leading online B2B marketplace for global emerging markets, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Coface Egypt, the newest company of the French multinational group and its division Kompass Egypt, the leading global B2B search engine, to develop an online transaction platform for Egypt’s agrifood industry. http://www.tejari.com POWER SIGNS… SYDNEY - Loy Yang Power, which operates a 2200 MW brown coal fired power station in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, has signed an agreement to undertake a site specific feasibility study into carbon capture using the worlds most advanced technology. www.eestechinc.com AERCAP REPORTS… AMSTERDAM - AerCap Holdings N.V. Wednesday announced the results of its operations for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2007. http://www.aercap.com FANNIE MAE… WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$1.3 billion on March 8, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com FANNIE MAE… WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTNR securities issues amounting to a total of US$50 million on March 8, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com LUMINARY ADDS… AUSTIN - Luminary Micro, creators of the award-winning Stellaris family of ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontrollers (MCUs), Wednesday announced the immediate availability of nineteen new Stellaris family members, providing cost-effective entry points and precise motion control support. www.LuminaryMicro.com ATMEL INTRODUCES… SAN JOSE - Atmel Corporation announced Wednesday the availability of the AVR RZ Raven evaluation kit that provides designers a unique ready-to-use development platform in the rapidly growing low power wireless market for the 2.4GHz ISM frequency band available worldwide. http://www.atmel.com ADDINTOOLS ANNOUNCES… HAINAN - Addintools announced Wednesday the launch of Classic Menu for Office 2007 v3.8, an interface add-on for Microsoft Office 2007 that brings back the classic style of the Microsoft Office 2003 interface with all the new features of Microsoft Office 2007, as well as the ability to automatically deploy to the client’s computers in enterprises or organizations. http://www.addintools.com PHARMA COLLABORATES… MELBOURNE - The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research announced Wednesday that Abbott, a global, broad-based, healthcare company, Genentech, a leading biotechnology company based in South San Francisco and WEHI have joined in a tripartite research collaboration to discover new anti-cancer drugs. PRINCE RECEIVES… TOKYO - The Niwano Peace Foundation announced Wednesday it will award the 25th Niwano Peace Prize to His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan. www.npf.or.jp AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.