LONDON, July 29 /PRNewswire/ --

Commenting on the announcement that BP has made approximately GBP4 billion ($7.8 billion) in profits in the last quarter, Tony Woodley, joint general secretary of Unite said:

"While ordinary working people struggle to make ends meet, BP's boardroom is wading through knee-deep profits. It is high time that our government moved to stop these fuel corporates picking the pockets of the poor and needy.

"A windfall tax now would ensure that the money was there to help the old and vulnerable through these tough times. Tax the fuel companies now so that those who helped to create these mega-profits get their rightful share of them."

For further information call Pauline Doyle, Unite press office, on +44-(0)7976-832-861

By the age of 18 years, two in every five South African schoolboys report being forced to have sex, mostly by female perpetrators. A new study, reported in International Journal for Equity in Health, reveals the shocking truth about endemic sexual abuse of male children that has been suspected but until now only poorly documented.

Some 28% of victims said a non-family member or teacher was the perpetrator. Another 28% had been forced by a fellow student, while 20% had been abused by a teacher and 18% by an adult family member.

Until 2007, forced sex with males in South Africa did not count as rape but as ‘indecent assault’, a much less serious offense.

MOUNT DORA, Florida, July 28 /PRNewswire/ --

Sundrop Systems, Inc. announced today that it has signed two separate licensing agreements under Sundrop's "Live and Work in America" program (http://www.sundropsystems.com/lwa) with successful entrepreneurs from the United Kingdom. The deals were closed in private transactions and grant each licensee an exclusive license to sell Showcast(R) managed digital signage solutions to businesses in defined central Florida territories. Additionally, each licensee received a non-exclusive license to sell Sundrop's other products and services.

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, July 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Partnership Will Modernize All Regional Hospital Laboratories to Improve Access to Care Across the Country

At a ceremony today, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, United Republic of Tanzania, and Abbott Fund commemorated the latest step in a nationwide initiative to upgrade Tanzania's health care system, laying the cornerstone for the first of 23 hospital laboratories to be built or modernized across the country. The laboratory at Amana Regional Hospital is the first of four laboratories targeted in 2008, with the remaining laboratories scheduled for completion by 2010.

BOSTON, July 28 /PRNewswire/ --

RISI, the leading information provider for the global forest products industry, today announced the addition of new tissue grade data to their Cost Benchmarking Service, along with a new information delivery method via the Analytical Cornerstone software platform.

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"Whether a client chooses a single grade or multiple grades of data, the potency of the Analytical Cornerstone platform allows clients to thoroughly analyze each mill's production process down to the machine-level in most cases, manipulate that data as needed, then export it to Excel," noted Surya P. Raina, Vice-President of Mill Intelligence.

MUMBAI, India, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Reuters: SUN.BO, Bloomberg: SUNP IN, NSE:SUNPHARMA, BSE: 524715) reported a quarter of strong growth for the first quarter ending June 30, 2008. There is significant one-time sales and profit component in these financials linked to the sales of products that enjoy limited duration marketing exclusivity in the US.

Highlights of Q1FY09 consolidated financials

BELLEVUE, Washington, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- In the news release, "Pelephone Selects Xeround to Improve Subscriber Experience" issued on 28 Jul 2008 10:00 GMT, by Xeround, Inc. over PR Newswire, there were several spelling errors throughout the release that were incorrectly transmitted by PR Newswire. Complete, corrected release follows:

Pelephone Selects Xeround to Improve Subscriber Experience

- Xeround Intelligent Data Grid(TM) enhances access to subscriber data and helps bring personalized services to market faster

SAN JOSE, California, July 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- "The coolest application for the hottest mobile phone out there"

CellSpin Soft, Inc. (http://www.cellspin.net) today announced it is adding Apple's iPhone(TM) to CellSpin's fully featured mobile blogging software platform list.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Innovative, social-networking community for engineers worldwide generated nearly 400 designs; Total prize value of more than US$200,000

TechInsights announced today the top 128 designs at the start of Phase II in the Microchip PIC32 Design Challenge (www.myPIC32.com), a year-long contest and community sponsored by Microchip Technology Inc. and Digi-Key Corporation as the exclusive distributor. Nearly 400 designs were submitted in this international competition.

SEOUL, South Korea, July 28 /PRNewswire/ --

The one-stop marketplace for the fine and specialty chemical and pharmaceutical industries, XpoChem and XpoPharm, will take place at SETEC in Seoul, South Korea, on 5 and 6 November 2008, exhibiting a wide range of items in these fields, from ingredients and intermediates to finished products, equipment and machinery.

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