VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 3, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Zecotek Photonics Inc. (TSX-V:ZMS) (Frankfurt:W1I), a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, today announced it has received grant payments from the Malaysian Industrial Development Authority and the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). The Malaysian Industrial Development Authority (MIDA) incentive grants come as a product of Zecotek’s relationship, established in 2007, with the Malaysian Institute for Micro-electronics Systems (MIMOS) to complete the development of the manufacturing process of Zecotek’s new-generation MAPD solid-state photo detectors.