Contents
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
Calendar Of Events
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