Deals of the day- Mergers and acquisitions

March 25 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1330 GMT on Tuesday:

** Royal Bank of Scotland RBS.L has had contact regarding the possible sale of its U.S. retail business Citizens with Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group 8316.T while Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group 8306.T has also considered a bid, people with knowledge of the matter said. News Search ID:nL5N0ML42R

** The Walt Disney Co DIS.N has agreed to buy Maker Studios, one of YouTube's largest networks, for $500 million, a deal that makes Disney a major online video distributor and should help draw more teens into the Disney entertainment empire. News Search ID:nL1N0ML1VC

** Shareholders in F&C Asset Management have voted in favor of a 708 million pound ($1.17 billion) takeover bid by Canadian lender Bank of Montreal BMO.TO . News Search ID:nL5N0MM2YL

** Italian power network company Terna TRN.MI is turning its attention to acquisitions abroad as it cuts spending on Italy's domestic grid, signaling investments in big projects at home could be on the wane. News Search ID:nL5N0MM2F4

** The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board said on Tuesday that it would invest $250 million in the Chinese real estate market through a new venture with China Vanke Co Ltd

000002.SZ , the nation's largest residential developer.

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** Coal miner Asia Resource Minerals ARMS.L has completed a long-awaited separation from its co-founding Bakrie family and is now in a position to return $400 million to shareholders, the company said on Tuesday. News Search ID:nL4N0MM2PP

** Lufthansa Cargo, the air freight arm of Germany's largest airline LHAG.DE , aims to set up a partnership with an airline outside of the Lufthansa Group by the middle of this year ahead of further cooperation deals, it said on Tuesday.

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** Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd ANZ.AX , Australia's third-biggest lender, is keen to exit its holding in Cambodia and will look at wholly owned business models wherever regulations allow. News Search ID:nL4N0ML4QB

** British insurer Aviva Plc AV.L agreed to sell its Turkish unit Aviva Sigorta AVIVA.IS to venture fund EMF Capital Partners, the Turkish company said on Tuesday.

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** Saudi Arabia's Hanco and Bahrain's Venture Capital Bank have bought Byrne Investments for around 600 million dirhams ($163 million), the Riyadh-based car rental company said on Tuesday. News Search ID:nL5N0MM1UP

** Sacombank STB.HM , Vietnam's ninth-biggest bank by assets, will merge with smaller local lender Southern Bank, following shareholders' approval, Sacombank said on Tuesday.

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** Britain's Centrica CNA.L and its consortium partners said on Tuesday they would buy the retail arm and other assets of Ireland's state-owned Bord Gais for 1.1 billion euros ($1.52 billion), helping the utility expand abroad as it is losing customers at home. News Search ID:nL5N0MM184

** South African food company Tiger Brands TBSJ.J has dropped plans to acquire Kenyan firms Rafiki Millers and Magic Oven Bakeries, the firm said on Tuesday, terminating deals worth at least $25 million. News Search ID:nL5N0MM1EQ

** Britain's Kingfisher KGF.L is exiting its investment in German home improvement store operator Hornbach HBHG_p.DE , which will increase the free float of its listed preference shares to 100 percent, the Hornbach family said in a statement on Tuesday. News Search ID:nWEB00KP7

** Luxottica LUX.MI , the maker of Ray-Ban sunglasses, has struck a deal to design, develop and distribute glasses based on Google's GOOG.O Internet-connected Glass eyewear, potentially bringing the new technology to a wider market. News Search ID:nL1N0ML1ZL

** The Middle East unit of New York-based investment manager PineBridge Investments said it had bought a 50 percent stake in a Turkish physical therapy and rehabilitation services chain, and would help the company expand internationally.

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** China Life Insurance Co Ltd 601628.SS and its parent China Life Insurance (Group) Co will inject 7 billion yuan into the firm's property and casualty insurance subsidiary, according to an exchange filing in Hong Kong on Tuesday. News Search ID:nL4N0MM22U

** Swiss bank Julius Baer BAER.VX has raised its bet on Latin America's largest wealth management market, buying a majority stake in Brazil's GPS for an estimated 100 million Swiss francs ($113 million), as part of a drive to expand abroad.

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($1 = 0.61 British pounds)

(Compiled by Neha Dimri in Bangalore)

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