The new free Dutch business daily, De Financiële Pers, was a two-day test run, an editorial in Friday's edition stated, Newspaper Innovation reported Friday,

De Financiële Pers is a business spin-off of free daily De Pers, which De Pers launched in a joint venture with business platform IEX.nl.

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Dutch free daily De Pers has launched spin-off business daily De Financiële Pers today, Newspaper Innovation reported Thursday.

The paper will be distributed throughout business centres in major cities.

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Financial Times Group announced it is planning to launch a magazine in China, a move to expand the Financial Times brand into “fast-growing markets,” The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

The magazine will target China's increasing number of affluent people in the business world, stated the London-based Pearson Plc, owner of the Financial Times Group.

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The Business Standard is aggressively launching Hindi and Gujarati editions, agencyfaqs! reported Thursday.

It launched its first Hindi business Daily on February 16 in Mumbai and New Delhi. Over the next 10 days, the Business Standard it launched Hindi editions in Lucknow, Chandigarh and Bhopal, and Gujarati editions in Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Rajkot. Two more editions of the Hindi version are scheduled to be launched in Patna and Kolkata in March.

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Trinity Mirror has launched a new free weekly newspaper, to be delivered to and around 10,000 homes in Daventry, England, and surrounding villages, Holdthefrontpage reported Friday.

The Daventry Post will be delivered every Thursday, and compete with the Johnston Press title Daventry Express.

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Hindi daily Nai Dunia is preparing to venture out of it's home in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, and spread across the entire Hindi-speaking belt in about six months, the Business Standard reported Wednesday.

Vinay Chhajlani, director of Nai Dunia News & Network Private Ltd, would not name specific states the newspaper plans to launch in, but did say Nai Dunia is “in an aggressive mode and ready to venture outside Madhya Pradesh.”

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The UK Competition Commission may weigh in on the sale of eight Trinity Mirror titles to Dunfermline Press Ltd. over concerns of competition restriction, as the Scottish firm would have control over the only two newspapers in the Eton, Windsor and Slough area if the sale goes through, HoldtheFrontPage reported Tuesday

The Office of Fair Trading has asked Dunfermline to address the competition concerns with a series of “satisfactory undertakings,” which will determine whether the OFT refers the sale to the Competition Commission.

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What will be the biggest threat to the traditional newspaper market? According to a survey targeting four Nordic countries, the Internet and free papers with editorial content were chosen by newspaper editors and managers as the top two competitors to traditional newspapers.

More than 70 percent of the survey's respondents thought the Internet will be the biggest threat, slightly down from the survey's 2006 figures. Free papers with editorial content was ranked second – over 65 percent chose free papers as a top competitor against traditional papers, which dropped about 10 percent from 2006, according to the Wilberg Management As study.

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In order to boost circulation and shore up ad revenues, The Independent is considering a free edition, experts in the media industry told MediaGuardian, according to a report Thursday.

The report however, is "utter rubbish," Editor-in-chief of the Independent Simon Kelner told MediaGuardian. "And I think it's shameful journalism on the part of Guardian Media that you present unsubstantiated gossip as news," he is quoted by the site as saying.

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Free business paper E15 was launched in Prague last month, the latest addition to the city's increasing number of freesheets.

Published by top Czech publishing house Mlada Fronta, E15 is distributed directly to businesses, hotels, office parks, universities and government buildings, as well as being available at train stations and in the airport.

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Singapore and the Phillippines reached a media cooperation agreement today, to be applied to media policy and information exchange, co-production and mutual exchanges and training and human resource development, Xinhua reported.

The Memorandum of Understanding was inked at this year's Asia Media Festival, hosted by the Media Development Authority (MDA) of Singapore.

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With the launch of the weekly newspaper Wicklow News, for Ireland's Wicklow area, River Media's number of local newspapers is expanding to 13.

The Wicklow News is the group's third paper in Dublin's surrounding commuter counties, following the Meath Post and Kildare Post, The Sunday Business Post reported Sunday.

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One of the top property classified sites Realestate.com.au is aggressively moving into online real estate markets in Asia, launching two new sites in Hong Kong and Dubai, The Australian reported Wednesday.

The company's objective is to “become number one or number two” in every market it operates in, Chief Executive Simon Baker told the company's annual general meeting, according to The Australian.

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The Financial Mail in the United Kingdom is breaking fresh ground among national papers by launching a Polish supplement.

The business and personal finance section of the Mail on Sunday will launch reports in English and Polish, and as an online version at www.thisismoney.co.uk.

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The Times and The Telegraph have taken their Fleet Street rivalries to the desert, this time vying for the attention of the United Arab Emirate's cutting edge business community, Emirates Today Online reported Tuesday.

The Times of London is currently holding a business forum in Dubai, and has been printing 15,000 copies a day in the city since May. On Monday, The Daily Telegraph launched a temporary online edition for Dubai that can be downloaded and printed.

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