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China is Australia’s largest trading partner, with two-way trade of around US$150bn in 2013. (Image source: Marc Dalmulder/Flickr)

Australia will export one million cattle worth US$856mn to China each year in a deal that will double the size of the live export industry

The hospital will have 50 glass aquariums, 25 circular water tanks, each with a capacity of 500 litres, to admit and treat diseased fish. (Image source: Gölin Doorneweerd/sxc.hu)

India’s first hospital to treat abnormalities and diseases in fish is set to come up in Kolkata by mid-2015

Concerns are also rising about the spread of infectious diseases from animals to humans. (Image source: Wattpublishing/Flickr)

Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide a US$2mn grant to support South Asia’s push to slow the spread of livestock diseases like avian flu and foot and mouth disease

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