Feature
•  AIDS Epidemics Will Get Worse Before It Improves

Company News
•  GlaxoSmithKline and Shanghai Medical Institute Set Up Combinatorial Chemistry Lab
•  GeneMedix to Take on Schering for Cancer Drug in China
•  Roche and China's Genome Center to Identify Disease-related Genes
•  Pharmagenesis and Tianjin Zhong Xin Enter Joint Venture
•  Korean Biotech Startups Show Impressive Developments
•  aaiPharma to Establish Joint Venture in China
•  US Firm Given Approval to Conduct Clinical Trials of Cancer Drug in China
•  Taiwan's Uni-President Group Sets Up US Subsidiary
•  Uni-President Halts Investment in Vita Genomics
•  HK's JDH Helps CNS of US to Expand Its International Distribution Network
•  GeneProt Opens World's Largest Proteomic Discovery Center in Geneva
•  Takeda Discovers Metastasis Suppressor Peptide Ligand
•  Fujisawa to Transfer Animal Health Business to Schering-Plough
•  Phase 2 Trial of Chugai's Gastroparesis Drug On Hold
•  PPL New Zealand Expansion to Go Ahead
•  Pfizer Open to Alliances with Local Indian Companies
•  Wockhardt-Bayer Tie-up to Market Antibiotic in India
•  Sanofi Acquires Torrent Pharma's Stake in India
•  Thai Food Company Aims to Capture Shanghai Market

Rules & Regulations
•  Australia's Victoria Government Jumps on the Biotechnology Bandwagon
•  Korea to Launch Task Force to Monitor GMOs
•  Western Australia Allows GM Crop Trials

Research News
•  World-class Nuclear Microscopy Research Center Set Up in Singapore
•  Japanese Scientists Find Possible Cure for Alzheimer's Disease
•  Taiwan Scientists Use Animal Waste to Produce Energy

Alternative Medicine
•  Singapore Calls on TCM Dispensers to Boost Standards
•  Gene Technology Pushes TCM into a New Age

General Information & Statistics
•  Philadelphia's Pharmaceutical Conference to Focus on China and India
•  BioMedical Asia 2001, Singapore
•  Malaysia's Genome Center ¾ An Introduction
•  Indian Pharmaceutical Industry to Reach US$25 billion by 2010
•  Pharmaceutical Industry Becomes Shenzhen's Leading Industry
•  Japan's Foreign Biotech Investments Up
•  Thai Agriculture Sector Faces Tough Time
•  Taiwan's Farming and Livestock Sectors Move to China

Calendar of Events
•  A comprehensive listing of upcoming biotechnology conferences in Asia-Pacific