SYDNEY--25 Jan--AsiaNet/InfoQuest GLOBAL INITIATIVE... GENEVA: In the first global initiative of its kind, theInternational Union Against Cancer (UICC) and members aroundthe world will lead an initiative to promote smoke-freeenvironments for children. "I love my smoke-free childhood"launches on World Cancer Day, 4 February, with these messagesfor parents.www.uicc.orgwww.worldcancercampaign.orgwww.uicc-congress.orgwww.globalink.org/news ACQUISITION ANNOUNCED... NEW YORK: Key Brand Entertainment, Inc., a privateinvestment company dedicated exclusively to the development,production and distribution of live theatre, announces that ishas acquired Live Nation, Inc.'s North American TheatricalCompany. Key Brand Entertainment is owned and controlled byBritish theater producer John Gore.www.broadwayacrossamerica.comwww.dancap.cawww.dancaptickets.comwww.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080124/NYTH091-awww.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080124/NYTH091-b FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of FINP, FINS, URET and UUFI securities issues onFebruary 4, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent ofthe principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. Fannie Maewill also redeem UUFI securities issues on February 3, 2008, aswell as redeeming URET securities issues on February 7, 2008.www.fanniemae.com EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON... HALLBERGMOOS: The combined fleet of 135 in-serviceEurofighter Typhoons and seven Flight Test aircraft hasaccumulated over 35,000 flying hours by the end of December2007. Since introduction into service in Spring 2004, the fivecustomer Air Forces, including, since Summer 2007, Austria haveachieved 30,650 flying hours. An amazing 50 per cent of thisamount was flown in 2007, demonstrating the tremendous growthof the in-service fleet.www.eurofighter.com/medialibrary MICREL ANNOUNCES... SAN JOSE, California: Micrel Inc., an industry leader inanalog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet ICsolutions, has launched the MIC94064/5, a series of high-sideload switches that extend Micrel's industry-leading MIC9406xfamily of high-side load switch products.www.micrel.com SOLLAND SOLAR... HEERLEN: The government should use the revenues from thesale of natural gas to speed up the changeover to clean,renewable forms of energy. In doing so it will choose even moreexplicitly in favour of reducing CO2 emissions. The transitionto sustainable energy will also make the Netherlands lessdependent on politically unstable regions such as Russia andthe Middle East, which are currently the key suppliers of oiland gas. This was the assertion of Gosse Boxhoorn, CEO ofSolland Solar, the Netherlands' largest producer of solarcells. Boxhoorn made this plea on Thursday during the openingof Solland Solar's new production hall in Heerlen.www.sollandsolar.com VIKING DEPOSIT... SYDNEY: At the Avebury Mine, drill hole A218 has intersected3.0m @ 4.7 per cent Ni within a thick zone of mineralisationassaying 17.0m @ 1.4 per cent Ni, 100m below the base of thecurrent Viking Resource.www.allegiance-mining.com.au THOMSON SCIENTIFIC... PHILADELPHIA and LONDON: Thomson Scientific, part of TheThomson Corporation and leading provider of informationsolutions to the worldwide research and business communities,has signed an agreement with the Accredited Standards CommitteeX9, Inc. - Financial Industry Standards (ASC X9) to makeThomson Scientific's Techstreet the primary distributor for ASCX9 publications in print and electronic format. ASC X9publications can be ordered through the new online publicationsstore at www.X9.org, operated by Techstreet.www.thomson.comwww.scientific.thomson.comwww.techstreet.com BAIDU THIRD... TOKYO: To aid in research and coverage of Baidu's recentannouncement to enter the Japan market with http://www.baidu.jp, relevant comScore qSearch worldwide data has beenprovided.www.comscore.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.