Policies & Regulations
•  India to Establish a National Medicinal Board
•  No Legislation Plans for Health Food in Hong Kong
•  Asian Countries to Begin Talks on Food Standards
•  Japan Beefs Up Marketing Strategies for Cloned Products

Major Event
•  A New Millennium Plan in the Japanese Biotechnology Horizon
•  China Decides to Increase Grain Imports
•  Pressure on Japan to Open Up Market to Rice Imports
•  Antitrust Lawsuits Loom Over Global Life Science Groups

Research News
•  A New Dust-Mite Allergy Buster
•  Scientists Find Golden Cure For Cancer
•  deCODE Genetics Discovers Gene for Pre-Eclampsia
•  CSIRO¡¯s Contribution to Human Vaccine Development
•  Protein May Provide Hope for Cancer Treatment
•  Ginger May Help Fight Caner
•  Painless Vaccines For the Future?

Company News
•  GenCom Co. Established as an R&D Venture Company
•  Monsanto Sells Seaweed Additives Operations
•  New Business Plans for Ajinomoto and Takeda Chemical
•  Battling Cancer with Painkillers
•  SIH Plans a Separate Listing of its Pharmaceutical Assets in Hong Kong
•  Dole Targets Japan with Fresh Strategy
•  Matritech's Bladder Cancer Test Kit will be on Sale in China
•  BTS and Asia-Pacific Biotechnology Business Development

General Information & Statistics
•  Patchy Recovery for Australian Commodities
•  Indian Cotton Output Forecast to Drop
•  Marketing Corn Varieties Via the ASTA Website
•  Nuclear Technology to Improve Food production

News in Brief
•  Role of Cattle Discase Vaccine Acknowledged

Announcement
•  FDA Analytical Techniques for Food and Food Microbioloty

Patents
•  Chinese Patents

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