MERGERS/DEALS (UPDATE 3)

** Zijin Mining (2899.HK) (601899.SS), 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) 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) said it will offer 0.283 euros ($0.396) for each share of A-S China Plumbing Products (8262.HK). [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)