BioBoard

Australia
•  Australia Ends Ban on Embryo Cloning for Research
•  Australia Government Allocates A$500 million for Science
•  Gardasil Immunization Program in Australia from Next Year

China
•  AIDS Patients to be Compensated for Blood Infection
•  New AIDS Therapy More Effective
•  Changzhou National Hi-Tech District Creates Alliance with Samara Province in Russia For Joint Construction Of Science & Technology Park

Hong Kong
•  New CRO in Hong Kong to Feed China
•  Botanical Medicine Company Chi-Med Collaborates with Merck

India
•  Indian Pharmaceuticals Agree to Supply Cheaper Drugs for Children with AIDS
•  British Pharmacopoeia Officials to Hold Talks with Indian officials
•  Indian Government to Set Up Five Institutes to Boost Pharma R&D

South Korea
•  South Korea Reports on its Second Outbreak of Bird Flu

Singapore
•  Scientists will Perform Research Work on New Stem Cell Bank
•  Scientists Discover New Path for Malaria Drug
•  Singapore's Fusionopolis Phase 2A Sells Out
•  Singapore Ministries to Tackle Rise in AIDS Number
•  A*STAR-Karolinska Symposium on Immunology
•  Singapore to Set Up Two Biomed R&D Centers
•  Human Embroynic Stem Cells Research in Singapore

Thailand
•  Thai Health Ministry To Issue Compulsory License For Merck's HIV/AIDS Drug Efavirenz

Others
•  Gardisil Research in Britain
•  World Bank Says More Funding Needed to Fight Bird Flu

Special Feature
•  Lipidomics -- New Frontiers in Lipid Research

Industry Watch
•  Yangtze River Pharmacy Group Co
•  WuXi PharmaTech Co Ltd. Announces Expanded Agreement With Merck & Co Inc
•  Reddy's Laboratories to Launch Polypill to Treat CVD
•  Immunicon Corporation and Eisai Company, Ltd. Entering into Research Agreement for Biomarker Development
•  Japan's Bioventures Today- Chiome Bioscience, Inc
•  Lonza and Bio*One Capital Invest in Second Large Scale Commercial Mammalian Cell Culture Plant in Singapore
•  CyGenics Asian Healthcare Presence Expanded in Indonesia

Agriculture
•  Health Active Properties of Commercially Available Functional Tools
•  Traditional Polynesian Medicinal Plant -- Noni

Commentaries & Analysis
•  Biotechnology in Shanghai

General News
•  First Asia Pacific Declaration for Chronic Pain Relief to Solve its Major Health Crisis

People Profile
•  The 1997 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics -- Professor Steve Chu

Conference Calendar