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Other countries could learn from Vietnam's progress on communicating science and risk, says Son Kim Phan.

Films and television programmes about climate change should be made freely available beyond their initial broadcast, argues Nalaka Gunawardene.

The global community must not forget countries suffering scientific stagnation, says TWAS executive director, Mohamed H. A. Hassan.

High-quality regional journals are essential for building the scientific strengths of the developing world, says Wieland Gevers.

Enquiry-based science education is essential for sustainable development, says Jorge E. Allende.

Climate-change reporting is woefully inadequate because too often editors lack interest and assign writers without expertise, says James Fahn.

Measures should be put in place to ensure that innovative scientific information is available to Chinese researchers, says Lan Xue.

Scientists, not government, should lead efforts to explain the benefits and risks of modern technology, says Li Daguang.

Researchers' preference for publishing in globally recognised journals is skewing the direction of scientific inquiry away from local research, writes Priya Shetty.

For its own international credibility, Indian science must be seen to deal with scientific misconduct, says N. Raghuram.

A regional strategy and a focus on capacity building would strengthen Gulf investments in S&T, say Wael K. Al-Delaimy and Hilal A. Lashuel.

Volunteer citizen scientists are an important resource — particularly for developing countries, argue Nigel Winser and Raghu Saxena.

Science should go 'glocal', integrating global with local knowledge, if it is to reach diverse ethnic communities, says Julia Tagüeña.

Better education, effective communication and dissemination of information could quell dangerous pseudoscience, argues George Claassen.

Let's encourage the mood of political cooperation on the big issues during the International Year of Planet Earth, says Nasser Ennih.

The UN agencies UNICEF and the WHO have broken with protocol and recklessly used data for their own ends, says an editorial in The Lancet.

Indian science has many reasons to be grateful to A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, the country's recently retired president, maintains Y. S. Rajan.

Clinicians should learn from the alarmist media coverage that followed a recent microbicide trial, say Gita Ramjee and colleagues.

An initiative to bring biomedical research journals free to the developing world is faltering, protest a group of academics in Lima.

Asian scientists must work together to circumvent political tensions and produce high-quality research, says a Nature editorial.