MERGERS/DEALS (UPDATE 3)

** Zijin Mining (2899.HK: 株価, 企業情報, レポート) (601899.SS: 株価, 企業情報, レポート), China's largest listed gold company, on Friday said it has terminated share acquisition talks with a Kazakhstan gold company. [ID:nHKG254016]

** Japanese drugmaker Shionogi & Co Ltd (4507.T: 株価, ニュース, レポート) said it has scrapped a plan to buy privately held Victory Pharma of the United States. [ID:nTKF106463]

** Japanese housing fixtures maker JS Group Corp (5938.T: 株価, ニュース, レポート) said it will offer 0.283 euros ($0.396) for each share of A-S China Plumbing Products (8262.HK: 株価, 企業情報, レポート). [ID:nTFD006299]

** UK-based private equity group Silverfleet Capital has begun exclusive talks to buy German sausage casing maker Kalle Nalo from rival group Montagu Private Equity, the Financial Times newspaper reported on Friday in an unsourced story. [ID:nLA684064] (Compiled by Tina Kwan in Singapore, Manasi Phadke and Sakshi A Mattoo in Bangalore)