Company News
•  Applied Precision Designates Taiwan's Transtex as Distributor of arrayWoRx(e) Biochip Reader
•  Sweden-based Pyrosequencing Designates New Distributor for Applied Genomics in Asia-Pacific
•  Calcol To Produce and Distribute Zer's Quick AIDS Test Kits
•  rvine Biomedical Announces Successful Clinical Outcome in China
•  GeneMedix's Drug Approved for the First Time in China
•  China's Everpride Biopharmaceutical Listed on HK Growth Entrprises Market
•  Tianjin Amazon Technology Produces Condom with Nanometric Technology
•  Eli Lilly Taiwan to Terminate Pharmaceutical Production in 2002
•  Taiwan's Wei-Chuan Food Company Plans to Import Rice from China and Thailand
•  Ranbaxy's Generic Version of Anti-AIDs Drug Approved by Brazil
•  Australian Biotech Company Derives Human Embryonic Cell Lines
•  Aventis Pharma Licenses New Anti-Cancer Agent from Ajinomoto
•  Korean Companies Eye US and Japanese Markets for Kimchi
•  Novartis and Novo Nordisk to Commercialize Dr. Reddy's Drug for Diabetes Treatment in North America
•  Blis Technologies Listed on NZ Main Board
•  Guidant's Carotid Stent Used to Treat Japanese Stroke Patients
•  XTL Biopharmaceuticals to Collaborate with Dong Wha Pharmaceuticals on Hepatitis C Research
•  GlaxoSmithKline to Form Joint Venture With Shionogi & Co. Ltd

Rules & Regulations
•  Drug Advertising under Strict Supervision by Chinese Authorities
•  China Highlights Green Foods Production
•  Compulsory Health Check for Mums-to-be in China
•  India Issues Guidelines to Curb Imported Crude Palm Oil Malpractice
•  Taiwan Government Maps Out Four-Year Agriculture Plan

Research News
•  China's Largest Lab-animal Breeding Center Set Up in Shanghai
•  Chinese Scientists Find Vaccine to Cure Foot-and-Mouth Disease
•  Banana Genome to be Sequenced
•  China's First Mad Cow Testing Lab Established
•  Singapore Doctors Use Horse's Heart for Brain Surgery
•  China and France Join Hands in Human Cloning Lawmaking
•  Australian Scientists Develop New Test to Detect Down's Syndrome in Embryos
•  Indian Scientists Develop DNA Marker Technology to Classify Basmati Rice

Alternative Medicine Research News
•  FDA Approves First TCM Drug for Phase II Clinical Trials
•  International Mongolian Medical Conference to be Held in Inner Mongolia
•  Medicated Plasters from Taiwan May be Detrimental

General Information & Statistics Research News
•  Inject IT to Boost the Biomedical Industry
•  China and Thailand to Co-produce Acupuncture Needles
•  Shenzhen to Build Eco-Agricultural High-Tech Park
•  NZ Authorities Decline Clinical Trials Transplanting Pig Cells to Humans
•  Kumho Science International Award in Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Presented to Eight Plans Scientists
•  US Cancer Conference to Focus on Nutrition, Cancer Research in China and Individualization of Cancer Treatments in the 21st Century
•  Swedish Seeks Collaboration with Taiwan in Biotech
•  Singapore Genomics Program Renamed the Genome Institute of Singapore

Calendar of Events
•  A comprehensive listing of upcoming biotechnology conferences in Asia-Pacific