Policies & Regulations • Steps Taken Toward Restoration of Japanese Agricultural Industry • India Sets New Rules for Non-Basmati Rice Exporters
Major Event • China Will Help UniversitiesCommercialize AcademicAchievements • Japan’s Science Agency Granted Bigger Budget • Greater Restrictions on Use of Rice Strains • Pfizer to Submit More Information on Viagra to Malaysia
Research News • Antisense Drugs to Fight Disease-Causing Genes • New Drug To Treat Malignant Tumors • Bacterium 'Eats Up' Greenhouse Gas • Test for Severity of Prostate Cancer
Chinese Medicine • Success of Anti-Allergy Chinese Medicine in US • Advances in Research on Chinese Herbal Drugs
Company News • FDA Approves SustivaTM for Treatment of AIDS • Three-Way Alliance to Co-Promote SmithKline Beecham’s PaxilTM • Chiron Sells Diagnostic Unit to Bayer • Bayer, FDA to Halt Trials for Alzheimer’s Drug • The Kao (Taiwan) Corporation
General Information & Statistics • Singapore Scouts for Foreign Researchers • AIDS Cases on the Increase in Guangdong • Taiwan Wants to be a Science-Tech Island
Patents • Chinese Patents
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