Industry Watch
•  EpiTan Annual Results
•  Wuxi Jiante Pharma Partners Roche Vitamin to Launch New Health Supplement
•  Shiyao Group Zhongnuo Pharma Established to Produce Antibiotics
•  Shanghai Lvgu Group to Produce New Anti-Cancer Drug Salvicine
•  Shaanxi Dongsheng Group Establishes Life Science Park in Jiangsu Qidong
•  Chongqing 999 Pharma Sprout from Fuling Yuyi Pharma Restructuring
•  Yunnan Yunyao Pharma Established
•  Hainan Hailiang Biotech Gearing Up for Anti-Cancer Drug Vinorelbine Production
•  Biocon's Strategic Expansion
•  Olanzapine Dispute between Dr. Reddy's Laboratory and Eli Lilly Resolved
•  Protemix Receives Financial Support from New Zealand Government
•  Media Cybernetics Secures Distribution Agreement with Olympus Optical
•  Alchemgen to Raise Fund for Anti-Cancer Drug Development in Taiwan
•  Optimer's Taiwan Subsidiary to Import Overseas Drugs
•  Sun Ten Pharmaceutical to Venture into the European and China Markets

Products/Services Highlight
•  Taiwan Establishes Umbilical Cord Blood Bank
•  Agilent's Bioanalyzer Optimized with Qiagen's Technology for RNAi/Gene Silencing to Streamline Drug Discovery
•  Colder Products Company Introduces New Stream-Thru™ Connection

Research Findings
•  Peplin's High Performance Anti-Cancer Lead Drug PEP500 Shows Promising Results
•  Auckland University Discovers Potential TB Drug Target
•  Singapore Prepares for SARS
•  Taiwanese Scientists Develop Method to Illuminate Cancer Cells
•  Concerns Raised about the Sudden Death of Cloned Pigs

Rules & Regulations
•  More Hospital in Shanghai and Beijing Adopt Drug Procurement Tender

Agriculture
•  Bt Corn Well-Received in the Philippines
•  Taiwanese Health Officials to Require Labeling of Ingredients for GM Food
•  EU Countries retain the Right to Ban GM Food

Commentaries & Analyses
•  Strategic Licensing in the New Economy

General News
•  AIDS Control Demonstration Centers Established to Curb Spread of the Disease
•  ICMCM 2003 Meeting Report
•  Indian Government Slashes Drug Prices
•  Anti-Wrinkle Beer?
•  Japan Takes Countermeasures to Fight Mutated HIV Strain
•  "Nutritional" Wears Available in Japan

Global Development
•  Was it SARS?
•  Eli Lilly's Bid to Curb Tuberculosis
•  Fountain-Pen Nanochemistry Enables Writing of Microscipic Patterns of Protein

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