Policies & Regulations
•  China's Regulations on Contract Manufacturing of Drugs
•  New Drug Registration Rules Issued in China
•  Biotech to Receive Boost in Taiwan

Major Event
•  Genetic Code to be Made Public

Feature
•  China's Agriculture After Joining WTO

Research News
•  Estrogen ¡ª Possible Protection Against HIV
•  Gene that Regulates Cancer Growth Discovered
•  Coral Sunscreen on the Way

Alternative Medicine
•  More Foreign Investment for Chinese Traditional Medicine

Company News
•  Affordable AIDS Vaccine for Developing Countries
•  Oral Vaccines for Livestock
•  South-West China to Make Genetically Engineered Drugs
•  Australia and Japan Sign New Wheat Agreement
•  Kyowa Hakko and Geron Extend Partnership in Telomerase Inhibitor Development
•  Takeda Chemicals Beefs Up Portfolio
•  Protein Design Labs to ¡®Humanize' Antibody for Fujisawa
•  Chinese Medicine Network Formed
•  Glaxo India Stays on Top
•  Burroughs Wellcome Profits Highe in 1999
•  Quark Biotech and Shionogi to Collaborate in Research
•  Kissei Pharmaceutical and Synaptic Pharmaceutical to Collaborate in Genomics Research
•  New Biotech Company Set Up in Shanghai

General Information & Statistics
•  Cardiovascular Drugs Sales Up in China
•  Koreans Eat Less Rice
•  India Praised for Tuberculosis Program
•  Agriculture Web Sites Flourishing in China
•  UN Expects World Rice Trade to Fall

Announcement
•  China to Hold Hi-Tech Fair in May

What We Hear
•  Dr. Ingo Potrykus Wins Kumho Science International Award in Plant Molecular Biology/Biotechnology

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