Company News
•  NZ's Doctor Global May Help Solve Japan's Health Issues
•  Microgenix of New Zealand Secures Contract to Fight Anthrax
•  Australia's Progen Reaches Milestone in Drug Manufacturing Services
•  Adelaide-based BresaGen Licenses New Catheter Technology
•  India's Sun Pharmaceutical to Sell Off Tail-end Brands
•  Dabur India Buying Anti-arthritis Formulation from Bio-Ved
•  Locomogene Discovers a Rheumatism-causing Protein
•  Mitsubishi Pharma Opens a Shanghai Office
•  Hitachi to Start Offering Protein Database Service
•  Chugai Pharmaceutical and Nippon Roche to Merge
•  Cheil Jedang Launches Global Brand 'CJ Gourmet'
•  Given Imaging Signs Up Asian Distributors for Its M2A Capsule Endoscope
•  India's Orchid to Form Joint Venture in China
•  Dragon Pharmaceutical Gets Asian Marketing Rights for Anemia Drug
•  Merck Cuts Prices of AIDS Drugs in China
•  Taiwan Sugar to Invest NT$1 Billion in Biotech
•  GeneMedix Enters Chinese Market
•  NexMed Announces NDA Filing For Alprox-TD in Singapore
•  GSK Philippines to Tap India for Sourcing Generics

Rules & Regulations
•  China Revises Its Drug Law in Line with WTO Rules
•  China's Guangdong Tightens Drug Chemical Law
•  Malaysia Proposes Mandatory Pre-marital HIV Tests

Research News
•  Chinese Scientists Isolate Gene for Genetic Dental Disease
•  Shanghai Surgeons Apply IT to Infant Heart Surgery
•  US Study Shows Plant Biotechnology Booming in China
•  China to Try AIDS Vaccine on Humans
•  Two Taiwan Research Institutes to Collaborate on Biotech Projects
•  Singapore University Students Create Movable Artificial Thumb
•  Singapore Airline Ties Up with Medical Group to Study Aviation Health
•  Drug Combination More Effective for Stem Cell Mobilization
•  Thai Researchers Develop High Quality Artificial Eyes

Personal Profile
•  Edison T. Liu
Executive Director, Genome Institute of Singapore

Alternative Medicine
•  Phage Therapy: An Alternative to Antibiotics
•  Korea's Oriental Clinic Reaches out to Stressed-out Workers

General Information & Statistics
•  Singapore to Build A Major Biomedical Facility
•  China to Do More in Protecting Wetlands
•  China's Male Reproductive Health Requires More Attention
•  China's Plan to Cap Drug Prices Upsets Makers
•  Taiwan Government Set up One-Stop Biotech Services Center
•  Malaysia Urged to Build a Natural History Museum
•  Rape Victims to be Given Free Anti-HIV Medicine in Malaysia
•  Thailand to Host International AIDS Conference
•  Malaysia Airs Concern Over Ads on Herbal Products
•  Asia's Largest Stem Cell Industrial Base to be Built in Tianjin

Trends and Prospects
•  Nanotechnology Seen as the Way Forward in Science
•  Pharmaceutical Industry Expected Long-term Growth Despite Global Economic Downturn

Patents
•  Genentech Granted Fundamental US Patent for Antibody Technology

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