But the ICRC said they had not been contacted

3) Medical Schools/Hospital Management Associations It is also very useful to medical academic institutions and hospital managementassociations. Report data field structure is as follows: Hospital Name Hospital Address Hospital Telephone Hospital Fax Hospital Email Hospital Website Address Year Established Number of Employees Number of Doctors Number of Nursing Staff Key Executives Hospital Description Hospital Departments Number of Beds Number of Outpatient Cases Number of Inpatient Admissions Average Duration Of StayResearch Facts' reports help you make informed decisions about the markets andorganisations that affect your business. Learn more about your target markets and target organisations Top level research on all 100 major players in a market See which organisations dominate your major markets Get detailed information on particular organisationsFor more information visit http:// and MarketsLaura WoodSenior Fax from USA: 646-607-1907Fax from rest of the world: 353-1-481-1716 Copyright Business Wire 2009. MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine troops have fanned out on a southern island to search for gunmen who abducted three members of the International Committee on the Red Cross (ICRC), including an Italian and a Swiss national, officials said on Friday. WorldThe abduction, on the island of Jolo, took place on Thursday but there has been no sighting of or communication from the kidnappers, believed to be from the notorious Abu Sayyaf group of Islamic radicals, they said."We're not really sure whether the Abu Sayyaf was behind the kidnapping because no group has come forward to claim responsibility for the abduction," Marine Lieutenant-General Nelson Allaga, military commander in the Western Mindanao area, told reporters.Allaga said authorities had received information a former guard at a provincial jail on Jolo, which the ICRC team visited earlier in the week, could have been involved in the abduction."We're still validating information a former jail guard was in cahoots with the gunmen that abducted the ICRC team," Allaga said, adding the suspect was also believed to have been involved in the escape of 12 inmates from the prison on Tuesday.Julasirim Kasim, police chief on Jolo island, said authorities were still investigating links between the abduction of the ICRC team and the jailbreak on Tuesday.

Some of the escapees were linked to the Abu Sayyaf, police had said.The ICRC has said the team was kidnapped a few hundred yards (metres) from the prison."These are all stories that need to be verified thoroughly," Kasim told reporters, adding they were interviewing witnesses who were in the area at the time of the abduction.Police said the kidnap was led by Albader Parad, a top leader of the Abu Sayyaf. The theory was bolstered by information the gunmen were moving toward an area in the interior of Jolo where Parad was known to be operating.The ICRC has identified the three kidnap victims as Andreas Notter, a 38-year-old Swiss national; Eugenio Vagni, a 62-year-old Italian and Mary Jean Lacaba, a 37-year-old from the Philippines.Military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Ernesto Torres said the troops were focusing on three areas where the gunmen were believed to have taken the captives."We have identified certain municipalities on Jolo where we would focus our operations," Torres told reporters in Manila, saying these areas were the known strongholds of the Abu Sayyaf.NO WORD FROM ANYBODYThe Abu Sayyaf, which has been linked in the past to al Qaeda and is believed to be sheltering Indonesians wanted for the 2002 Bali bombings, is notorious for demanding large ransoms. But the ICRC said they had not been contacted."We have not heard anything from anybody," spokesman Roland Bigler told a radio station. "We don't know what group was behind the kidnapping."Richard Gordon, head of the local Red Cross organization, said there would be no negotiation to recover the three ICRC personnel, adding the role of the Abu Sayyaf was not clear.The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the country's largest Muslim rebel group, would help locate and work for the release of the captives, said Mohaqher Iqbal, one of the rebels' senior leaders."We've asked our political and military people on the ground to gather information and help for the safe release of the Red Cross team," Iqbal told Reuters, adding the MILF condemned the kidnapping because the ICRC is a neutral organization.The Abu Sayyaf is said to have about 350 members based on Jolo and the nearby island of Basilan. By Reiji Murai TOKYO, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Steel Partners has sold about 150billion yen ($1.67 billion) worth of Japanese shares over thepast year, public filings show, in a scaling back by one of themarket's most influential activist funds. Steel Partners, which holds sizable stakes in at least twodozen Japanese companies, appears to be selling mainly to returnmoney to clients hurting from the financial crisis, analystssaid The U.S.

fund had as much as 390 billion yen worth ofJapanese shares at one time last year, falling to about 240billion yen this month. "It spread itself too thin with its investment targets," saidKengo Nishiyama, a senior strategist at Nomura Securities. "Fund cancellations may have played a big part in promptingSteel Partners to cut its holdings, but an effort to focus theportfolio seems to be another driver behind the move." Steel Partners sold about 12.4 billion yen worth of shares insewing machine and office equipment maker Brother Industries(6448.T) during a three-month period to Jan. 7, cutting its staketo below 4 percent from 10 percent, filings show. The fund asked Brother in November to conduct share buybacks,though the company has not done so. A press agency representing Steel Partners said the fundwould not comment on individual trades.

Steel Partners cut its stakes in some companies to zero,butkept the same stake in wig maker Aderans Holdings Co (8170.T), inwhich it had succeeded in bringing about management changes The U.S. fund grabbed headlines in May when it helped oustAderans' president and most of its board, marking the first timethat management of a Japanese company had been ejected underpressure from an activist fund. Steel Partners cut its stake in Citizen Holdings (7762.T) toabout 5 percent from 12 percent by selling about 25 billion yenworth of shares, according to the filings. Hot StocksBank of America (BAC.N) will receive another $20 billion in U.S. government cash and a guarantee against almost $100 billion of potential losses on toxic assets after its acquisition of Merrill Lynch.The U.S.