Policies & Regulations
•  China Reorganizes Medical Management to Establish Quality Control
•  Major Tasks Ahead for ICAR

Major Event
•  Status of TCM in Singapore
•  Medicinal Enterprises in Nanjing City
•  China Establishes Seed Propagation Base in Hainan
•  The 2nd Congress of the Chinese Bio-engineering Association

Research News
•  China's Breakthrough in Hybrid Rice Research
•  US, China Collaborate to Clone Gene Causing Bone Warts
•  Research on Vaccine for Infectious Horse Anemia and AIDS
•  Silkworm Factories an Up-And- Coming Industrry in Japan

Chinese Medicine
•  Medicinal Values of Rabdosia iophanthide
•  Antibacterial Herbs

Company News
•  Diversa Signs Bioprospecting Agreement with Indonesia
•  Kopran Obtains Approval for $18m ECB
•  Peptech's New Funds Allow More Scope for R&D
•  Kagome Halts Marketing of Processed Foods from Bio-Tomatoes
•  Indian Pharmaceutical Company Enters into Joint Venture with US Company
•  Inno-Pac Sacrifices Joint Venture, Cuts Losses
•  Lam Soon's Performance in First Half of 1997
•  Delifrance's Performance July 1996 ¨C June 1997
•  Top Chinese Import and Export Enterprises

General Information & Statistics
•  Lower Growth Forecasts for South-east Asia
•  Drought Threatens China's Autumn Grain Harvest
•  China Plans to Become World's No. 1 Apple Juice Exporter
•  Philippine's Poultry Sector Expected to Rebound in 1998
•  Food Prices in Indonesia May Increase
•  Japanese Scientific Institutions Adapt to New Financial Climate

What We Hear
•  1997 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine

Patents
•  Chinese Pharmaceutical Patents

Calendar Of Events