SYDNEY--17 Dec--AsiaNet/InfoQuest GKN ZF... DETROIT, MI: GKN Driveline and ZF plan to jointly develop, manufacture and market rear-axle torque vectoring systems forrear and all-wheel-drive vehicles. The cooperative agreement between the two companies calls for the integration of mechanical and electrical components and the development of system software. www.gkndriveline.com www.zf.com PEKING UNIVERSITY... CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts: The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Peking University have established the Center for Urban Development and Land Policy on the campus of the university in Beijing. www.lincolninst.edu www.lincolninst.edu/aboutlincoln/prc.asp ANDRE RIEU... TORONTO: The world premiere of the new World Stadium Tour with Andre Rieu and his orchestra was a great success yesterdaynight at Toronto's Rogers Centre. An audience of over 25,000 experienced a show never seen before, on the biggest stage everused by any artist in the world. www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071215/285887 http://Press.andrerieu.com www.epa-photos.com SAVE CHILDREN... SEOUL: The fight to save more children from dying of pneumococcal disease in the Asia Pacific has taken on addedurgency, with healthcare professionals from around the region uniting to launch a regional group called the Asian StrategicAlliance for Pneumococcal disease prevention, or ASAP. HENNIGES AUTOMOTIVE... FARMINGTON HILLS, Michigan: Metzeler Automotive Profile Systems - North America a portfolio company of WynnchurchCapital, has completed its acquisition of GDX Automotive. The closure of this transaction and the combination of MAPS and GDXcreate a new global supplier in the automotive sealing systems industry. In connection with this combination, the newlyformed company will assume a new name - Henniges Automotive. www.wynnchurch.com BREAST CANCER... SAN ANTONIO: New data from ATAC*, one of the world's largest and longest-running studies in postmenopausal women with early breast cancer, reinforce that anastrozole can help many more women live cancer-free, for longer. For the first time,anastrozole has been shown to be the only treatment of its type to be increasingly better than tamoxifen in preventing tumoursfrom returning. www.ATAC100.com www.thenewsmarket.com/astrazeneca www.breastcancer.org/treatment/hormonal/what_is_it hormone_role.jsp www.prnewswire.com/mnr/astrazeneca/30949 FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$710million on December 26, 2007 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$250 million onDecember 25, 2007 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$120 million onDecember 24, 2007 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$200 million onDecember 28, 2007 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. Fannie Mae also will redeem the principal amount of MTNR securities issues amounting to a total of US$25 million onDecember 24, 2007 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest http://www.fanniemae.com ICT CONFERENCE... BANGALORE: How can you make broadcast radio interactive? Why would a large software manufacturer replace PCs withsoftware-less mobile phones in a sugar cane cooperative? Can the symbolic value of a computer -- that is, its associationwith wealth and modernization -- be greater than its functional value? These are some of the questions that will be addressedat the International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development to be held inBangalore Dec. 15-16, 2007, at the Grand Ashok. www.microsoft.com http://photoarchive.ap.org www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20000822/MSFTLOGO AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.