Company News
•  US-based Alara Expands MetriScanä Distribution into China
•  Varsal Sets Up Special Chemical Facility in China
•  Three Taiwan Biotech Firms to Jointly Set Up Vaccine Production Plant
•  Malaysia's Sirim Comes Up with Latest Ceramic Membrane Filter Technology
•  Fuzhou Branch of Rocky Mountain Launches New Product
•  SurroMed Expands Global Efforts with New Singapore Facility
•  Malasia's Top Glove Expands into International Market
•  TNT Offers Bio-logistics Services in Singapore
•  Malaysia's ITAV Enters into Agreement with Eastgate and Biotech Asia
•  Thailand to Undertake Bio-diesel Fuel Project
•  Chugai Sells Business Rights of Medical Device Products to Kobayashi
•  Sumitomo in Joint Research with RIKEN on Pharmaceutical Development based on Genome Information
•  Settlement of Investigation into Takeda Subsidiary's Marketing Practices of Prostate Cancer Drug
•  Novartis and Korea Yet to Agree on Leukemia Drug Price
•  VaxGen Receives Funding for Development of AIDS Vaccine in India, China and Africa
•  Fujisawa Launches Protopic Ointment in Canada
•  BresaGen and Image Guided Neurologics to Produce and Distribute Proprietary Cell Delivery Device
•  Progen Industries and BresaGen Sign Manufacturing Agreement
•  India's Kopran Gets Better Deal for Heart Drug Aten
•  Reliance Life Sciences to Scale Up Biotech
•  NZ's Delphic and Japan's Sysmex Announce Joint Venture
•  Australian Biotech Companies Get Another A$3.6 Million of Funding

Rules & Regulations
•  Hospitals Punished for Illegal Overcharging in China
•  Singapore to Stipulate Stem-Cell Research Guidelines

Research News
•  Chinese Scientists Develops Technology to Protect Black Earth
•  Chinese Scientists Clone Rabbit Eggs with Human DNA
•  China's First Aerospace Biology Industrialization Base Established in Beijing
•  Tianjin Sets Up Gene Chip Research Center on Oncology
•  Taiwan and US Develop Promising Antiseptic Coating Technology
•  Japanese Scientist Discovers Endrocrine Disrupter in Newborn
•  Japanese Baby Born from Semen of HIV Father
•  Korean TB Strain Discovered

Alternative Medicine
•  US$124 Million Fund to Modernize TCM Industry in Shanghai
•  Taiwan to Expand Global Market Share of Herbal Medicine

General Information & Statistics
•  HK University Gets Funding of US$12.8 Million to Establish Genome Center
•  HK Grants US$99.8 Million for Academic Research Projects
•  Singapore Sets Up Tissue Network to Boost Biomedical Research
•  Biomedical Grid to Share Biomedical Information in Singapore
•  Elderly in Singapore to Get Free Eye Tests
•  Taiwan Allocates NT$10 Billion for Nanotech Research
•  Thailand Launches New Health Scheme
•  Neurosurgeons in Singapore Use 3D Virtual Simulator to Rehearse Surgical Procedures
•  Singapore's Two Top Institutes to Merge

Trends and Prospects
•  From Genomics to Proteomics ¾< The next Milestone to Decode Mystery of Life

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