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China Made Great Stride in Biotechnology Over Last 15 Years.

First Asian Biotech Summit to be Held in China.

International Biotechnology Exhibition to Kick off in Beijing.

Sino-Canadian Bioscience Lab Set up in Xinjiang.

China Join Hands with Russia, Belarus and Ukraine in Science and Technology.

Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China Urged to Cooperate in Bio-Pharmaceutical Development.

India Seeks More US Funds for Farm R&D.

Incidence of Pulmonary Disease Diagnosed as Asthma High in India.

Japanese Biotech Industry Seeking to Establish Ties with Europe.

Korea Spends Half the Agriculture Budget to Subsidize Farming Sector.

NZ Biotech Sector to Overtake Meat Industry in Eight Years.

Singapore and Japan Strengthen R&D Ties.

Biotechnology in Asia 2002 to be Held in Singapore.

Singapore Sets up New Infectious Diseases Center.

In recent times, the advent of network science permitted new quantitative approaches to literary studies. Here, we bring the Kyiv bylyny cycle into the field — East Slavic epic narratives originating in modern-day Ukraine. By comparing them to other prominent European epics, we identify universal and distinguishing properties of the social networks in bylyny. We analyze community structures and rank most important characters. The method allows to bolster hypotheses from humanities literature — such as the position of Prince Volodymyr — and to generate new ones. We show how the Kyiv cycle of bylyny fits very well with narrative networks from other nations — especially heroic ones. We anticipate that, besides delivering new narratological insights, this study will aid future scholars and interested public to navigate their way through Ukraine’s epic story and identify its heroes.

How many entrepreneurs start-up their business ventures conducting some or all of their trade in the informal economy? The aim of this paper is to answer this key question that has been seldom addressed using data from 600 face-to-face structured interviews conducted in Ukraine in late 2005 and early 2006. Analyzing the 331 entrepreneurs identified (i.e., individuals starting-up an enterprise in the past three years), just 10 percent operate on a wholly legitimate basis, while 39 percent have a license to trade and/or have registered their business but conduct a portion of their trade in the informal economy, and 51 percent operate unregistered enterprises and conduct all of their trade on an off-the-books basis. Given that some 90 percent of all business start-ups operate partially or wholly in the informal economy, and that 40 percent of all respondents depend on the informal economy as either their principal or secondary contributor to their livelihoods, the paper concludes by considering the wider implications of these findings both for further research and public policy.

To understand entrepreneurs' motivations, it has become increasingly common to distinguish between those driven by necessity (or pushed) and those driven by opportunity (or pulled) into entrepreneurship. Until now, entrepreneurs operating wholly or partially in the informal economy have been widely assumed to be necessity-driven, pushed into this enterprise as a survival strategy in the absence of alternatives. To evaluate whether this is indeed the case, this paper reports one of the first surveys of informal entrepreneurs' motives. Reporting face-to-face interviews conducted in Ukraine during 2005–06 with 298 informal entrepreneurs, the finding is although most identified themselves as necessity entrepreneurs when initially asked whether they were either pushed or pulled, subsequent questions reveal in the vast majority of cases, there were not only both push and pull factors driving their original decision to start-up informal enterprises, but also a clear shift among these entrepreneurs as their business became established away from necessity-oriented motivations and toward more opportunity-oriented motivations. The outcome is a call for a transcendence of a static either/or approach and the adoption of a dynamic both/and approach that recognizes the coexistence of necessity- and opportunity-drivers as well as the fluidity of entrepreneurs' motivations.

This chapter will aim to present a broader picture of the current situation in the Arctic region, including military, economic, minority security etc. Considerations will be given to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine and as a result, this chapter will present a more pessimistic assessment concerning the potential for cooperation and engagement between the western countries and Russia in the light of the Russian aggression. The combination of threats to and in the Arctic region will accelerate global warming and natural disasters in a way that could further increase the security threats and necessitate new and stronger measures form the international community.

This presentation will address the results of national public opinion surveys conducted in Ukraine and Romania by the Global Libraries programs, implemented by IREX. The surveys assess national library visitation rates across demographic groups, satisfaction with the library and librarians, information search and information literacy patterns, and ICT familiarity and skills. The results of these surveys form a key basis for national and local advocacy and outreach efforts on behalf of libraries, and the surveys will be repeated in 2011 and 2013 to assess changes. The Global Libraries programs in Ukraine and Romania, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, aim to help libraries better serve their communities through training and technology.