Policies & Regulations
•  China Implements New Rules on Crop Variety Appraisal
•  Taiwan's NSC Announces Six Directions for Development

Major Event
•  Shanghai to Host Major Exhibitions on Food Additives
•  The Third Sino-Australian Sci-Tech Committee
•  R&D Activities within India's CSIR
•  Malaysian Rice Company Invests in Cuba
•  Sea-Ocean Demonstration Zone to be Set Up in Qidong City

Feature Article
•  The ¡®Food Revolution'
•  Indian Pharmaceutical Industry

Research News
•  Antifreeze Proteins: A Boon to Agriculture, Food and Medicine
•  Rising Hepatitis C Cases Spark New Research
•  Indian Lab Develops New Antibiotic
•  Plant Glucosides a Popular R&D Area in China
•  New Methods to Treat Artery Blockage
•  Industrial Production of Phytase in China
•  First Human Vaccine for ¡®Bird Flu' Developed
•  Micropropagation Without Tube

Chinese Medicine
•  The Clinical Uses of Dahuang (Rheum officinale)
•  Health Benefits of the Crataegus Fruit

Company News
•  SmithKline/Glaxo Will Form World's Largest Pharmaceutical Company
•  Genentech Develops New Breast-Cancer Drug
•  ICICI Initiates Human Genome Research in India
•  Fujisawa to Market Prograf in Asia
•  Bayer to Invest Further in China
•  Bristol-Myers Squibb to Acquire Redmond Inc.
•  Zhangzhou Pien Tze Huang Group Applies for Listing

General Information & Statistics
•  Costs of Drugs Escalate in Japan
•  India's Grain Imports Delayed
•  New Legislation Shakes Up Japanese Drug Industry
•  Soaring Rates of Diabetes in Industrializing Asian Countries

Comments
•  Lettuce Replaces Nicotine in 'Safer' Cigarettes
•  Pfizer Markets Powerful New Antibiotic
•  Johnson & Johnson's New Stent Meets FDA Approval

Patents
•  Chinese Patents

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