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The question is what to do in order to allay these public fears. I believe that the root of the economic policy problems that the LDP experienced was in their deviation from the fundamentals of economic policy, and this is why I urge the Democratic Party to get back to the basics of economic policy.

As a result of the general election, the administration has changed and many citizens have high hopes for the new administration that emerges. At the same time, the new administration, the new opposition party, and individual citizens are venturing into unknown territory. What awaits us all there?

Summaries of newsworthy papers: Inhaled carbon nanotubes reach the lung lining, Age-related sperm mutations associated with testicular tumors, Magma below the Cascades, A Notch in lung arteries, A genetic region implicated in schizophrenia, Layered immunologic memory, Ribosome reactions, Modifying mountain river systems and Ancient Arctic palms

Three Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) undergraduates made USM and the nation proud when they won five main awards in the largest exhibition in the United Kingdom, "Invention, Innovation & Technology Show, The 9th British Invention Show"

Press Release: 23 Oct, Hong Kong - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and EuAuto Technology Limited (EuAuto) today jointly announced the official launch of their home-grown electric vehicle mycar in Hong Kong.

New robot to reduce burden on care facilities

How do plants defend themselves from pathogens such as bacteria or viruses? The Plant Immunity Research Group, led by Group Director Ken Shirasu, is taking on the challenge of unraveling this mechanism.

Variations in the spatial distribution of cellular signaling molecules provide the information needed to steer neuron growth within the brain

Penang, 21 Oct- Researchers from Universiti Sains Malaysia have successfully produced a standardised, Misai Kucing (Orthosiphon Stamineus) herbal extract. Named CANSSUFIVE, the extract contains a high anti-oxidant content and studies carried out on cell cultures and animals have proven its ability to retard the growth of blood vessels.

The fossilized remains of a 37-million-year-old lemur-like primate are reported in this week’s Nature. Although the animal shares several features with higher primates, including humans, detailed analysis reveals these to have evolved independently through ‘convergent evolution’.

Summaries of newsworthy papers: High-sensitivity stimulated emission microscopy, The Road to Copenhagen, Views from around the world, Cells process painful sounds, Signalling pathway link to cancer, Understanding melon sex determination, Cancer link to microenvironment and Why have sex with someone else

UiTM student and junior lecture have won top awards at the British Invention Show in London, which just ended. The medals won were a Diamond, the Best Invention by Salon Archimedes (Russia), a gold and 6 silver medals.

Malaysian researchers have produced bio-solid compost, a fertilizer, developed from sewage sludge. The sewage sludge, collected from a residential area in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia was successfully used as a nitrogen source using landscape and agricultural crops biomass to produce compost

Press Conference - The pharmaceutical industry will be interested in the latest innovation from USM researchers who have found therapeutic properties for breast cancer in a local tropical herb, Orthosiphon stamineus or locally known as Misai Kucing (Cat's Whiskers).

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University has sent forth about 9,700 students and conferred honorary doctorates upon five prominent figures at its 15th Congregation.

PolyU hailed the inauguration of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Community Health Services for the Western Pacific region hosted by the University's School of Nursing.

The Specialty Optical Fibre Fabrication Laboratory houses a state-of-the-art fibre drawing tower capable of pulling the newest type of optical fibres called micro-structured fibres. This cutting-edge fibre manufacturing technology would allow PolyU researchers to develop novel optical fibres for communication and sensing applications.

Summaries of papers including Possible multiple sclerosis biomarker, SARS attacking the ribosome, Variants associated with systemic lupus erythematosus, CRLF2 defects in Down syndrome-associated leukemia, Cell softness dictates sensitivity to force, Light vibrations on a chip and Laser recreates conditions near a black hole

The Noyori Summer School, held for the first time this year, was created with the aim of answering this need through the support of cross-disciplinary, international interaction.

Astrophysicists at RIKEN lend their expertise to biologists to develop one of the world’s fastest and most sensitive cameras to observe cell behavior at the nanometer scale.

A novel spectroscopic technique reveals a new fundamental property of air/water interfaces

Press Release: 15 Oct, Tokyo - Researchers at the RIKEN SPring-8 Center have addressed how environmental stimuli are converted into biological signals using the highest resolution analysis of its kind to date.

Summaries of newsworthy papers: Place in space, Learning literacy, The magnetic equivalent of electricity, Entangled electrons at a crossroads, Immunology: Silent attack caught on camera, Charge break-up in grapheme, New route to non-natural amino acids and Quasicrystals self-assemble

Having a pink salad from cut flowers? The pink Malaysian Torch Ginger (Etlingera elatior), or locally known as Bunga Kantan, could be a colourful way to add versatility both to your meal and decor.

Summaries of newsworthy papers include Variants associated with blood cell traits and Routing rogue bacteria for destruction

Researchers at RIKEN created a new graphite nanotube that conducts electricity when exposed to light, which could lead to efficient solar batteries based on organic materials and developed molecular devices that can respond to various types of stimuli, similar to living organisms.

Neurons may be casual initially about their interactions, but get very picky when it comes to making a lasting synaptic connection

PolyU has moved up from the 224th place in 2008 to the 195th place in the "Times Higher Education-QS World University Ranking 2009" of the Times Higher Education Supplement.

A personalized medicine research agenda, Mapping diversity, Let's celebrate human genetic diversity, Scanning and linking for autism, Quantum fingerprints of chaos, Where is the heritability?, Transition to an icehouse world, Protein link to long life, Photonic crystal guides electromagnetic waves with no losses and Erupting without warning

THIRTY years of Asian women's involvement in Britain's workplace struggles is celebrated in a new exhibition at the Women's Library in London.