1Forty years ago New Zealand was giving aid to Singapore, and now the city state's development of high value industries such us biomedical manufacturing and research is being savoured as an example NZ would do well to emulate. The biomedical sector is now a $3.2-billion industry in Singapore. What would NZ need to push ahead with its development of the sector. Experience regulating biomedical research; advising the Minister for Health on emerging ethical, legal and social issues in the practice of medicine.

2News from the United Kingdom, including: shock across the country at the Cumbria murders; resignation of David Laws from the new government already; British Petroleum losing value over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and it's hitting pension funds; British Airway cabin crew strike; government has announced it will publish names and salaries of all civil servants who earn more than the Prime Minister.