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Policies & Regulations • Western Australia Bans GM Crops for Two Years • Taiwan's National Health Insurance in Financial Crisis • Qingdao Successful in Keeping Medical Expenditure Down • New Technologies Park Opens in Shanghai • Development Plans for Beijing Unveiled • Tax Exemption for Pharmaceutical R&D Firms in India • Entry of New Zealand Apples into Australia? • Should Parasitic Wasps be Used to Control Pests? • Indian Tea Planters Support Import Duty Hike • China's Agriculture Development Plan Improves Yield, Livelihood
Research News • The Beijing Genomics Institute to Sequence Rice and Pig Genomes • Virus That Caused Havoc in Malaysia and Singapore Identified • Biological Chips for Detecting Cancers • Gene for Rare Hereditary Disease Discovered • Proteins to Combat Pathogenic Bacteria • The Chromosomal Link to Liver Cancer • China Faces the "Post Genetic Age" • New Rice Strain Expected to Increase Output by 15 Percent
Alternative Medicine • Yam Beneficial to Menopausal Women
Company News • Mahyco Seeks Approval to Produce Transgenic Cotton • China Premium Food Corp. Expands Operations • Allergan Plant in Hangzhou BeginsOperation • Shanghai Pharma To Collaborate with Horizon Pharmacies • China Continental Ventures into Singapore • Daiichi-Microcide Collaboration in Bacteria Efflux Pump Inhibitors • Ranbaxy Acquires Bayer's German Generic Drug Business • Biacore and Axiom Signs Collaboration Deal
New Product • Japanese Company Develops Gene Tester
General Information & Statistics • First Non-GM Soyabean Market SetUp in Japan • European Patent Office Withdraws NeemOil Patent • Indian "Vision Group on Biotechnology" • Drought in India Not Expected toAffect Agricultural Output • Japanese Weed Runs Amok in UK and US • Thai Sugarcane Farmers Demandfor More Subsidies • Increased Role for Pharmacists in Malaysiaand Singapore
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