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 Paxil^TM
•  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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