Inaseparate arts project, Gairloch-based artist Lynn Bennett-Mackenzie and Indian artist Somu Desai are working to create an artwork for the Beinn Eighe nature reserve, near Kinlochewe, in Wester Ross.
The Chinese are also involved inaseparate planned natural gas pipeline project that will run westward from their British Columbia shale deposits to Vancouver for export to China.
Inaseparate development, the BBC has learned that a government pilot project that pays housing benefit directly to recipients has seen rent arrears amongst tenants increase.
The early DNA sequencers that were used in the Human Genome Project started out at Perkin-Elmer before a restructuring made the technology part of aseparate company.