"Vietnam is seen as the country that will benefit the most to get the biggest benefits from the TPP, compared with other participating nations, and this will be a great chance for the country to boost its exports and join the global supply chain," said Dr Nguyen Tien Dung, principal of the Law-Economics University, during a speech at the workshop.

 

Viet Nam witnessed a growth rate of 9.8 per cent year-on-year in index of industrial production (IIP) for this year, an official of the General Statistics Office (GSO) said. The growth in IIP this year was the highest over the past three years, Nguyen Bich Lam, head of GSO, said. The IIP reached a year-on-year increase of 5.9 per cent in 2013 and 7.6 per cent in 2014.

Despite the economic slump that is affecting other emerging economies in the region, the Vietnamese economy is expected to outperform its regional peers both this year and in the next few. The Prime Minister stated earlier this month that GDP growth for 2015 is expected to be 6.5%—the highest since 2007. He also revealed that the economy is expected to surpass that figure during the 2016–2020 period with growth projected to average 6.5%–7.0%,

With interest we read the response of Volker and Steenbeek (1) to van der Lee and Ellemers (2), reporting gender disparities in grant funding success for three cohorts (2010–2013) of early-career (Veni) researchers in the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). Volker and Steenbeek (1) argue that there is no evidence of gender bias because the overall gender effect “borders on significance” (P = 0.045)

After the discovery of retroviral reverse transcriptase in 1970, there was a flurry of activity, sparked by the “War on Cancer,” to identify human cancer retroviruses. After many false claims resulting from various artifacts, most scientists abandoned the search, but the Gallo laboratory carried on, developing both specific assays and new cell culture methods that enabled them to report, in the accompanying 1980 PNAS paper, identification and partial characterization of human T-cell leukemia virus

In 1987, Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) virus was first detected in the U.S. Pigs that contract the disease to stop reproducing, do not gain weight, and have a high mortality rate. No vaccine has been effective, and the disease costs North American farmers more than $660 million annually. Now, a team of researchers from the University of Missouri, Kansas State University, and Genus plc have bred pigs that are not harmed by the disease.

FAO 22 December 2015, Rome - Crop and livestock production prospects in Southern Africa have been weakened by the El Niño weather phenomenon that has lowered rains and increased temperatures.

Jumonji C (JmjC) domain-containing proteins are a group of functionally conserved histone lysine demethylases in eukaryotes that JmjCs regulate various biological processes in plants. However, their roles in plant biotic stress, especially in rice bacterial blight resistance have been barely studied so far.

University of Liverpool scientists have successfully carried out the first ever genome-wide survey of heritable molecular changes regulating gene activity in wheat. Epigenetic marks are chemical tags which physically attach themselves to DNA, modifying its function without changing the genetic code. DNA methylation is a mechanism of epigenetic gene expression control that can be passed down to future generations, and new technology has allowed scientists to study DNA methylation across the complex wheat genome.

Over 60 representatives from Chinese government, academia, media, industry and Embassies of USA, Canada, Australia, Argentina, and Brazil gathered in Westin Hotel, Beijing, China on December 8, 2015 to promote biotech risk communication experience-sharing, strengthening communication and cooperation between government, academia, media and the industry in the dissemination of biotechnology.