All Asia articles – Page 25
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NewsFukushima disaster predicted to raise cancer rates slightly
World Health Organization report expects cancer risk to rise marginally, but doesn’t put a figure on the number of deaths expected
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UK-India projects launched
Scholarships and research links announced as part of prime minister’s visit to India
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Sabic invests $500m in new R&D centres
Four centres to be created: two in Saudi Arabia, one in India and one in China
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NewsIndian supreme court’s anger over unregulated clinical trials
Tales of collusion between drug companies and regulators leads court to criticise the government
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BusinessIndia pushes for emergency drug licences
Government looks set to force licensing of three patented cancer drugs
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NewsIndia sets ambitious targets for science
Science policy aims to increase research funding to 2% of GDP by 2017 with the help of private enterprise
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NewsChina’s next leader looks to soothe environmental angst
Xi Jinping, China’s president-in-waiting, will need to deal with public anger over industrialisation and pollution
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CareersOf castes and chemistry
From southern India to Northern Ireland, Geetha Srinivasan has been applying her research to solving real world problems, as Sarah Houlton finds out
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China's emissions may peak as soon as 2025
Projections suggest renewables and clean energy technologies could cut greenhouse gases more rapidly than expected
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GSK expands in India and Nigeria
Company has struck deals to increase ownership of subsidiaries
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Russian universities face bleak future
Audit of state run institutes brands 25% as ‘inefficient’ and many may face closure
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Questions remain after huge hydrofluoric acid leak
Korean residents in the affected zone are still afraid to return home six weeks after the disaster that killed five workers
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NewsRussia targets top spots in university league tables
Large cash injection planned to push 10–15 universities in to top 100 in global rankings by 2020
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Problems for Russian chemicals?
Accession to WTO will force government to ditch badly needed subsidies
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NewsRussian chemist released after drug charge
Expert on poppy opioid chemistry faces drug trafficking charges that supporters claim are politically motivated
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NewsChina targets renewables to cut energy dependence
New five year plan will attempt to grow China’s domestic biofuels and biomass industry
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NewsChinese drug makers accused of using ‘gutter oil’
Oil reclaimed from drains may have been used to make an antibiotic intermediate
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NewsRebuilding public trust in Japanese science
Public faith in the role of science-based decision-making faltered after the tsunami and Fukushima and won’t be easy recover
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Business
AkzoNobel sells ICI Pakistan
Yunus Brothers will pay $150 million for the recently restructured business