Lab bungle

Article Abstract:

Reports that people have contracted Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) has caught health officials in China on the wrong foot and reveals failures inherent in the health care system in the country. Experts feel that the outbreak can be contained but many believe there are too many laboratories connected with SARS research and this could be the cause for poor controls.

Development and progression, Control, Health policy, Severe acute respiratory syndrome

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Asia?s pipeline politics

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China is looking for petroleum resources, but like Japan, the countries are both uneasy about doing business in the Middle East due to its instability. As a result, both China and Japan are looking for resources near them, and thereby competing with each other for petroleum in Kazahkstan, Siberia, and far western China.

Japan, PETROLEUM AND COAL PRODUCTS, Petroleum, Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing, Petroleum & Energy Products, Energy policy, Natural resources

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Space odyssey: launching its first man into orbit should show the world just how seriously China must be taken

Article Abstract:

China plans to send its first astronauts into space in Oct 2003.

Science and technology policy, Space policy

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