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January-March 2010

Product Launch Tracker is a service from Datamonitor providing details on recent global product launches from the consumer packaged goods industry. Each article contains top-line detail on the product, its pricing, the geographic areas of introduction and on the manufacturer and distributor.

Relaxnews is the first global newswire dedicated to leisure and lifestyle coverage. It publishes around 400 stories a week a continuously updated schedule of 100 must-see events around the world. Coverage concentrates on France and Europe.

ANSAmed provides daily news coverage from the Mediterranean area, with approximately 150 daily news items and features in English and Italian. ANSAmed covers local, national and international events from a Mediterranean perspective.

From Bennett Coleman & Co Ltd, LexisNexis offers access to three new publications from India: The Times of India (TOI) is a popular English-language daily newspaper in India. It is the most widely read English newspaper in India with a readership of 13.3 million. With a daily circulation of over 620,000 copies, The Economic Times is India's largest financial daily and the world's second largest financial daily after The Wall Street Journal. It has been printed continuously since 1961. Crest goes beyond the here-and-now and leverage's TOI's unequalled network of correspondents, analysts, writers and editors to report on changes in Indian society as well as world events.

AllAfrica aggregates content from more than 130 media organizations with to offer a diversity of reporting, analysis and commentary from around Africa. The content includes government and opposition-controlled papers, as well as the growing number of independent, professional news publications across the continent. In this way, AllAfrica provides access to a full range of what Africans themselves are saying, thinking and publishing -- a unique compilation of information that is valuable to policy makers, businesses, non-governmental organizations, scholars and journalists, as well as to the general public. Publications include:

Addis Fortune; Arusha Times (Arusha); Business Daily (Nairobi); Concord Times (Freetown); Daily Champion (Lagos); Daily Independent (Lagos); Daily Trust (Abuja); East African Business Week (Kampala); FOROYAA Newspaper (Serrekunda); Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra); Leadership (Abuja); Mmegi/The Reporter (Gaborone); Namibia Economist (Windhoek); New Democrat (Monrovia); New Vision (Kampala); The Citizen (Dar es Salaam); The Daily Observer (Banjul); The Herald (Harare); The Independent (Freetown); The Informer (Monrovia); The Monitor (Kampala); The Namibian (Windhoek); The Nation (Nairobi); The New Times (Kigali); The Times of Zambia (Ndola); This Day (Lagos); Vanguard (Lagos); Zimbabwe Independent (Harare); Zimbabwe Standard (Harare); Cameroon Tribune (Yaounde) English; Cape Argus(Cape Town); Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (English); Garowe Online (Garowe); Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu); SW Radio Africa (London); Tunisia Online (Tunis); UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (Nairobi); UN News Service (New York); AllAfrica.com; Inter Press Service (Johannesburg); Public Agenda (Accra); The East African (Nairobi).

African Press Organization provides news releases issued by governments, political organizations, NGOs and branches of the United Nations across Africa. These news releases focus on political, legal and social events and news from the across the continent. Publications include both a French version (African Press Organization – Francais) and an English version (African Press Organization).

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