SYDNEY--28 Feb--AsiaNet/InfoQuest KYOWA RECEIVES... TOKYO - Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd. (President: Dr. YuzuruMatsuda) announced that Kyowa Pharmaceutical, Inc. (New Jersey,United States), its wholly owned U.S. subsidiary, received onFebruary 25, 2008 (local time) a Not approvable letter from theU.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for istradefylline(KW-6002), its investigational drug for the treatment ofParkinson's disease.http://www.kyowa.co.jp/eng/index.htm FARO LAUNCHES... LAKE MARY - FARO Technologies, Inc., the world leader inportable computer-aided measurement hardware and software,announced Thursday the launch of its new family of 3-D LaserScanners called Photon 80 and Photon20.http://www.faro.com STORM PARTNERS... MOUNTAIN VIEW - Meshcom Technologies, a leading provider ofmesh technology and Storm Semiconductor, leading manufacturerof high performance Gigabit network processors for wirelessnetworks and network storage applications, Thursday announced apartnership to roll out a total solution for Wi-Fi mesh accesspoint designs.http://www.meshcom.comhttp://www.stormsemi.com DARA APPOINTS... RALEIGH - DARA BioSciences announced Thursday theappointment of Haywood D. Cochrane, Jr. to the Board ofDirectors.http://www.darabio.com EXECUTIVES ATTEND... WASHINGTON - UATP and Airline Business magazine presentAirline Distribution 2008, a global conference focusing ondistribution 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 forglobal emerging markets, has signed a Memorandum ofUnderstanding (MoU) with Coface Egypt, the newest company ofthe French multinational group and its division Kompass Egypt,the leading global B2B search engine, to develop an onlinetransaction platform for Egypt's agrifood industry.http://www.tejari.com POWER SIGNS... SYDNEY - Loy Yang Power, which operates a 2200 MW brown coalfired power station in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, has signed anagreement to undertake a site specific feasibility study intocarbon capture using the worlds most advanced technology.www.eestechinc.com AERCAP REPORTS... AMSTERDAM - AerCap Holdings N.V. Wednesday announced theresults of its operations for the fourth quarter ended December31, 2007.http://www.aercap.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$1.3billion on March 8, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest.http://www.fanniemae.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTNR securities issues amounting to a total of US$50million on March 8, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest.http://www.fanniemae.com LUMINARY ADDS... AUSTIN - Luminary Micro, creators of the award-winningStellaris family of ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontrollers(MCUs), Wednesday announced the immediate availability ofnineteen new Stellaris family members, providing cost-effectiveentry points and precise motion control support.www.LuminaryMicro.com ATMEL INTRODUCES... SAN JOSE - Atmel Corporation announced Wednesday theavailability of the AVR RZ Raven evaluation kit that providesdesigners a unique ready-to-use development platform in therapidly growing low power wireless market for the 2.4GHz ISMfrequency band available worldwide.http://www.atmel.com ADDINTOOLS ANNOUNCES... HAINAN - Addintools announced Wednesday the launch ofClassic Menu for Office 2007 v3.8, an interface add-on forMicrosoft Office 2007 that brings back the classic style of theMicrosoft Office 2003 interface with all the new features ofMicrosoft Office 2007, as well as the ability to automaticallydeploy to the client's computers in enterprises ororganizations.http://www.addintools.com PHARMA COLLABORATES... MELBOURNE - The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of MedicalResearch announced Wednesday that Abbott, a global,broad-based, healthcare company, Genentech, a leadingbiotechnology company based in South San Francisco and WEHIhave joined in a tripartite research collaboration to discovernew anti-cancer drugs. PRINCE RECEIVES... TOKYO - The Niwano Peace Foundation announced Wednesday itwill award the 25th Niwano Peace Prize to His Royal HighnessPrince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan.www.npf.or.jp AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.