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Letter To Apbn • Zhu Lilan (China's Minister for Science and Technology) gives her views and insights on biotechnology in the country
Policies & Regulations • China Introducing Measures to Boost Trade • Food Fortification in Australia and New Zealand to Be Liberalized
Major Event • Australia's 1999 Budget Boosts Biotechnology Research • Japan Pledges to Deregulate Key Industries
Research News • Instant Rice to Be on Supermarket Shelves Soon • High Density Planting Increases Cashew Yield • HKUST Develops One-Minute Heart Attack Test • HIFU -- A New Form of Cancer Treatment • Cocktail Gene Transfer Method Shows High Efficiency • Australian Scientists Develop Oral Plant Vaccines • Broad Beans May Protect Against Cancer • Scientists Find Possible Cause of Cleft Palate
Alternative Medicine • TCM in the Next Millennium
Company News • China-Canada Fertilizer Trade • Nippon Glaxo Ltd. and Nippon Wellcome to Merge • Sales up for Bristol-Myers but down for Novartis and DuPont • Tata Tea to Acquire Estates in Africa • Balding Men Seek Treatment with Proscar
General Information & Statistics • Sino-Swiss Trade Expected to Increase • India's Export Figures "Not Scaled Down"
Announcement • Frontiers in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
Patents • Chinese Patents
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