Policies & Regulations
•  China Controls Fertilizer Imports
•  Korea to Implement Mandatory Labeling of GM Food
•  Hong Kong Sets Up New Food Safety Unit
•  India May Tax Agricultural Income
•  Saving China's Multimillion Dollar Silk Industry
•  New Zealand to Phase Out Contraceptive Subsidy

Major Event
•  China's Entry into WTO -- Implications on the Agricultural, Pharmaceutical and Textile Sectors
•  China Supports the Biopharmaceutical Industry
•  Seed Farm to be Established in South India
•  China to Build Super Gene Bank

Research News
•  New Skin-Regeneration Technique Developed
•  Australian Scientists Develop Test to Predict Hypertension
•  Biotec and Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden Sign Technical Collaboration Agreement

Alternative Medicine
•  Thai Hospitals to Use More Local Herbal Medicine
•  Cooperation for Clinical Trials of Gingkonin
•  LifeTec Group to Sell Chinese Medicinal Drug in Hong Kong
•  Lingzhi for Direct Sale in Thailand

Company News
•  Sumitomo Chemical to Take Over Abbott's Agricultural Business
•  Pfizer and Celera to Cooperate on Genome Project
•  Icon Starts Operations in Singapore
•  Bayer Thai to Close Down One Plant
•  Monsanto to Introduce Health Foods in India
•  Kolon Corp. to Venture into Biotechnology
•  Partnership Needed for Transgenic Seeds Development
•  Singapore's Parkway Group Healthcare Lures Foreign Patients

General Information & Statistics
•  Diabetes and Lung Cancer on the Rise in China
•  Australians Are More Cautious about GMOs, Food Survey Shows
•  Medicine in the Philippines Overpriced
•  Korea Enjoys Bumper Rice Harvest This Year
•  Palm Oil Buyers May Get Credit Offer from Malaysia

Patents
•  Chinese Patents

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