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Chemistry World October 16, 2008 Hepeng Jia	Credit crunch may boost Chinese science China's research budget is unlikely to be hit by the global financial crisis, and may even receive a further boost, according to policy experts.
Chemistry World October 21, 2008 Hepeng Jia	OECD urges China to innovate Despite China's impressive investment in research and development, the country lags behind others when it comes to innovation.
Chemistry World April 12, 2011 Hepeng Jia	China sets modest energy saving plan After forced power cuts last year in a bid to save energy, China has released more realistic figures on energy saving and carbon emission reduction.
Chemistry World May 12, 2011 Ned Stafford	Eastern European research blighted by funding shortfall While the recently released 2012 draft EU budget is set to increase research spending by 13 per cent, scientists in eastern Europe are continuing to struggle.
Chemistry World November 7, 2011 Eugene Gerden	Russia Books Place at Science Top Table The Innovative Russia 2020 scheme should see science funding rise to at least 2.5 per cent of GDP. However, some critics think the scheme is overambitious and predict that implementation will run into bureacratic problems.
Chemistry World September 25, 2009 Rebecca Trager	US budget bears good news for chemistry President Obama's budget proposal for fiscal year 2010 - due to start 1 October - represents very good news for chemical science and for the general research community.
Chemistry World May 19, 2009 Karen Harries-Rees	Major increase in Australian science spending The Australian government has surprised the science community with a major increase in spending on science and innovation in its 2009 budget, despite tough economic conditions.
Chemistry World November 20, 2007 Hepeng Jia	China Leaps up Research League Table China has overtaken Japan and the UK to become the world's second largest producer of science and technology (S&T) papers.
Chemistry World December 6, 2010 Rebecca Trager	US urged to triple energy R&D investment US President Obama's panel of science advisers has recommended a tripling of the country's federal investment in energy-related research and technology to $16 billion ( 10.2 billion) annually.
Chemistry World January 25, 2010 Rebecca Trager	US science lead slips The US appears to be losing its global lead in science and technology according to data released by the US National Science Foundation.
Chemistry World September 19, 2011 Maria Burke	Higher education funding rises around the world 'While our universities are experiencing cuts, other nations are pumping billions more into their universities to gain a competitive edge,' says Wendy Piatt, director-general of the Russell Group, which represents 20 research intensive UK universities.
Chemistry World October 8, 2010 Akshat Rathi	India calls for ambitious increase in science funding The Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India has advised the government to increase its science funding from less than 1 per cent of GDP to up to 2.5 per cent by 2020.
Chemistry World October 14, 2010 Laura Howes	France and Spain commit funds to research The 'knowledge economy' has been declared a priority for the governments of both France and Spain, as they announce extra funds for higher education and research in their 2011 budgets.
Chemistry World February 2, 2010 Rebecca Trager	Science shines in Obama's budget proposal US science agencies would fare quite well under President Obama's newly unveiled budget proposal for fiscal year 2011, despite his plan to reduce the nation's trillion-dollar deficit by freezing non-defence discretionary spending.
Chemistry World October 26, 2011 Maria Burke	Europe risks being outstripped by R&D rivals EU companies are lagging behind in R&D investment compared with major competitors from the US and some Asian economies, according to the European Commission's 2011 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard.
BusinessWeek November 19, 2009 Pete Engardio	China's Reverse Brian Drain Beijing is making progress in its effort to lure back top Chinese scientists working overseas.
Chemistry World July 1, 2008 Rebecca Trager	US research agencies get extra millions The US research community has won an extra $400 million for four science agencies, after successfully arguing that the nation's scientific enterprise is in a state of emergency.
Chemistry World November 17, 2010 Rebecca Trager	US science agencies poised for tough times Current political and economic conditions in the US could mean bad news for the nation's science agencies and the researchers.
Chemistry World February 2, 2010 Ned Stafford	Russian science losing its edge Research in Russia, considered a scientific powerhouse during the cold war years, has faded in global importance since the break-up of the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s and now is lagging behind China and India.
IndustryWeek November 1, 2008 Jill Jusko	Inflation Outpaces Federal Funding: By the Numbers Academics lose federal R&D dollars for science and engineering.
Chemistry World April 15, 2011 Rebecca Trager	Delayed US budgets finally agreed The Obama administration says it no longer plans to keep the budgets of the key physical science agencies on a trajectory to double between 2006 and 2016, but it is still vowing to provide them with 'strong investments'.
BusinessWeek March 22, 2004 Bruce Einhorn	China: Wen Won't Slam On The Brakes The appetite for jobs is the main reason promised economic restraint is unlikely
Chemistry World April 30, 2009 Rebecca Trager	Obama issues scientific call to arms President Obama has pledged billions of extra dollars towards scientific research and development (R&D) in a bid to maintain the US's position at the forefront of science and technology.
Chemistry World March 3, 2011 Ned Stafford	Scientists in Slovakia campaign against diversion of funding Scientists in Slovakia are calling for international support in their effort to reverse a government decision to divert 120 million of EU science funding - into a road construction program.
Chemistry World Ned Stafford	ERC concludes first phase of advanced grants The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the final cash handouts from its first ever 'Advanced Grants' competition, worth a total of 542 million, and launched the competition's second phase of funding.
Chemistry World March 5, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Hefce announces how RAE money will be distributed This includes 1.6 billion for research, based on the outcome of the revamped Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).
Chemistry World July 19, 2011 Ned Stafford	German Science Receives a 10 Per Cent Funding Boost Angela Merkel's government has unveiled a 10 per cent boost in funding for research.
Chemistry World June 2, 2010 Leila Sattary	Universities face hard years ahead A new report warns that widespread cuts being made to higher education funding across Europe is likely to impact the quality of European teaching and research for years to come.
Chemistry World October 24, 2007 Hepeng Jia	China to Ramp up Nuclear Power China may dramatically increase the proportion of energy it gets from nuclear power in the near future, according to the energy expert charged with developing the country's new energy strategy.
Chemistry World February 2007 Mark Peplow	Science Stars Rise in the East Collaborate or die. That's the message of a series of reports from the independent thinktank Demos, claiming that British science is in danger of being sidelined unless it tries harder to work with booming Asian nations such as China, India and South Korea.
Chemistry World January 14, 2010 Ned Stafford	Japan research funding safe The proposals of major cuts in researching funding triggered howls of criticism from Japanese scientists and academics, who appealed for support from the global scientific community.
Chemistry World September 19, 2011 Rebecca Trager	Senate looks to trim $162 million from NSF US Senators plan to cut the National Science Foundation's budget by 2.4 per cent to $6.7 billion ( 4.2 billion) in 2012, and this $162 million reduction has set alarm bells ringing throughout the research community.
Chemistry World October 20, 2010 Turley & Lewcock	Science budget frozen in spending review The UK's science budget will suffer a 10 per cent cut in real terms over the next four years and higher education has been hit hard in the government's public spending review announced today.
Chemistry World September 5, 2007 Hepeng Jia	China Sets Renewable Energy Targets in 100 Billion Dollar Plan China's powerful energy watchdog has said that the country will aim to get 15% of its energy from renewable sources by 2020 in an effort to curb its carbon dioxide emissions.
Finance & Development September 2011	Fiscal Neighbors Canada and the United States confronted growing budget deficits and public debt but the results differed.
Chemistry World January 8, 2008 Ned Stafford	Young Chemists Win Share of ERC Windfall Jerusalem-based chemist Assaf Friedler wins one of the European Research Council's (ERC) prestigious grants for young researchers.
Chemistry World November 24, 2011 Hepeng Jia	China's emissions still surging China's carbon dioxide emissions have kept growing quickly, shadowing worldwide efforts to fight global warming.
Chemistry World February 18, 2010 Matt Wilkinson	Merck joins the cost-cutting crowd Following its merger with Schering-Plough, US drug giant Merck & Co. has announced a 'merger restructuring plan' that in its first phase will see 17,500 jobs cut.
Chemistry World September 10, 2009 Ned Stafford	Light on the horizon for chemicals sector Production in the worldwide chemical industry, battered and bruised by the global economic meltdown, appears to have stabilized and could even show mild annual growth by the fourth quarter of this year.
Chemistry World August 19, 2008 Hepeng Jia	China keeps pollution in bounds China may be the world's biggest emitter of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, but the chemicals remain largely within the country's boundaries, according to researchers from Peking University.
Chemistry World December 8, 2008 Matt Wilkinson	Dow wields the axe The company announced plans to 'eliminate' 5000 jobs, cast off several business units and idle around 30 per cent of its production plants.
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Chemistry World June 11, 2008 James Mitchell Crow	GSK Job Cuts Hit Chemists GlaxoSmithKline is cutting the jobs of hundreds of scientists as it restructures its drug R&D operations.
Chemistry World September 27, 2010 Rebecca Trager	America's scientific lead remains on the brink An influential US National Academies committee that sounded an alarm five years ago about the precarious position of American leadership in science and technology has renewed its call to action.
Chemistry World October 7, 2011 Karen Harries-Rees	European doctoral students struggle to find funding Many European doctoral science students are failing to find funding to cover their research, a new survey finds.
Chemistry World January 6, 2011 Rebecca Trager	Obama moves to protect research agency budgets President Obama has signed legislation to enable key US physical science agencies to enjoy consistent budget boosts over the next several years.
Chemistry World February 12, 2010 Ned Stafford	Belief in climate change plunges Recent polls suggest the public in the UK and US are becoming increasingly sceptical about climate change.
Bank Systems & Technology September 29, 2008 Orla O'Sullivan	Consumers' trust in banks declines: Cisco Study Against a backdrop of Congress refusing to bail out the banks, Cisco today released a survey indicating that consumers' trust in banks is waning.
Chemistry World April 25, 2008 Rebecca Trager	Environmental Scientists Report Political Interference Hundreds of the US Environmental Protection Agency's scientific staff have experienced political interference in their work, a survey has revealed.