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The country's budget for science will increase by 67 per cent in 2010, with an emphasis on supporting new PhD students.

More funding and freedoms are needed if the Arab world is to reach its goal of becoming a knowledge-based society, a report finds.

New programme to bolster Africa agriculture, malaria control method overlooked, traditional healers have key role in epilepsy, and more.

The first scientist to return home as part of India's new expatriate scheme has been dismissed, causing mixed reactions from fellow researchers.

China's agricultural science is expanding fast, and its 'world share' of research papers is rising too, says a report.

A farming research centre is set to open in Mozambique with funding, seeds and advice from China.

African countries lack data on the effect climate change will have on water supplies, scientists said at Africa Water Week.

Scientists must lobby policymakers and politicians to ensure that vital research on maternal and child health saves lives, say the authors of a report.

South African researchers have lodged an appeal against their government's rejection of a genetically modified potato.

The United States has launched a fund to promote Islamic technology, the latest step in fulfilling President Obama's promises to the region.

Pork tapeworm is responsible for almost a third of epileptic fits, researchers say.

Using sheeting impregnated with insecticide may be easier, and less toxic, than wall-spraying.

Deaths from diarrhoea in over-five-year-olds far exceed established estimates, according to a new study.

Pakistan's Biological Safety Association has been reinvigorated with new powers in a drive to enhance biosafety regulations in the country.

Strong intellectual property rights do not always ease the transfer of climate technologies and may even hinder it, claims a study.

A UN conference has made an urgent call for developed countries to transfer climate-friendly technologies to the developing world.

China is trying to make the most of its science spending by uniting information about the nation's research activities on one website.

Iranian professors around the world are petitioning colleagues in Iran to attack plagiarism after alleged instances in academic journals.

Japan and Nepal have announced that they will form a research partnership to study climate change related issues in the Himalayas.

Funds have fallen and the future is "worrying", the AU's science chief told the TWAS meeting, but some countries gave confident reports.