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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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