China cracks the whip on big pharma

Two separate but equally important developments took place in China this month. One, intensification of investigations i...

June 2, 2014 | Monday | Opinion
GSK China's former head assisting in investigations

Singapore: British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline that has been facing bribery allegations in China has now said that its for...

October 17, 2013 | Thursday | News
Sinovac reports positive results from EV71 trial

Singapore: Sinovac Biotech, a provider of vaccines in China, reported preliminary top-line data from its phase III cl...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | News
China Biologic names David Gao as CEO

Singapore: China Biologic Products, one of the leading plasma-based biopharmaceutical companies in China, has appointed ...

May 14, 2012 | Monday | News
GlobalData: China pharma to reach $315 bn in 2020

Singapore: GlobalData has in its latest report on China's healthcare industry highlighted that the country's pharmaceuti...

July 25, 2013 | Thursday | News
Shanghai Pharma revenue rises 17.6% to $3.17 bn

‎Singapore: Shanghai Pharmaceuticals has maintained a steady growth in first quarterly result of 2013 touc...

April 30, 2013 | Tuesday | Company results
China Botanic hires Zhao to gain NYSE compliance

Singapore: China Botanic Pharmaceutical has appointed Mr Jack Zhao as a member of the company's board of directors. Mr Z...

January 25, 2013 | Friday | News
Sanofi opens insulin pen plant at Beijing

Singapore: Sanofi inaugurated a new assembling and packaging line to produce its flagship pre-filled insulin injection p...

May 28, 2012 | Monday | News
DKSH launches Dr Wolff's Alpecin in Hong Kong

Singapore: DKSH's Business Unit Healthcare, the leading market expansion services provider for healthcare companies seek...

July 4, 2013 | Thursday | News
ScinoPharm, TaiGen collaborate for stem cell drug

Singapore: Taiwan based ScinoPharm, engaged in development and manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients has clos...

June 9, 2014 | Monday | News
MNCs bet on China to tide over patent cliff

Even as most emerging economies in Asia Pacific are trying to grab a foothold in the global biopharma space, China has e...

May 16, 2012 | Wednesday | Analysis
Whats up with the BGI-Complete acquisition deal?

In perhaps the largest move in the sequencing services industry to date, BGI Shenzhen entered into a definitive merger a...

March 14, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Why did mergers & acquisitions plunge in APAC?

The global bioscience industry, in 2012, reported 450 mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions valued at $67 bill...

June 12, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Thermo Fisher opens $20 mn manufacturing facility in China

Singapore: Thermo Fisher Scientific has opened its new facility in Suzhou, China, for the manufacturing of life sciences...

November 16, 2012 | Friday | News
Anaphore changes corporate name to RuiYi

Singapore: Anaphore changed its corporate name to RuiYi. As part of the company's shift in strategy to the R&D of...

October 5, 2012 | Friday | News
Simcere receives going private proposal

Singapore: Simcere Pharmaceutical's board of directors received a non-binding proposal letter from Mr Jinsheng Ren, New ...

March 13, 2013 | Wednesday | News
China Botanic to get patent for traditional medicine

Singapore: China Botanic Pharmaceutical, a developer, manufacturer and distributor of botanical products, bio-pharmac...

August 29, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Dr Xiaochuan Wang: Nurturing Sundia

Sundia, a Shanghai-based integrated pharmaceutical contract research organization is the brainchild of a highly motivate...

March 19, 2012 | Monday | Influencers
China gets its first international trial sourcing firm

Singapore: Komtur Pharmaceuticals, a German specialist in clinical trial sourcing, has invested in Chinese firm HengHeKa...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | News
TaiGen gets TFDA nod for bacterial pneumonia drug

Singapore: Taiwan based TaiGen Biotechnology has recieved Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) approval for new dr...

March 18, 2014 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Beijing Drug Admin, Zimmer sign musculoskeletal MoU

Singapore: Zimmer Holdings, a global leader in musculoskeletal health, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), w...

November 16, 2012 | Friday | News
Cipla launches first rheumatic drug biosimilar in India

Mumbai: Cipla launched the first biosimilar of Etanercept in India under the brand name, Etacept, indicated for the trea...

April 18, 2013 | Thursday | News
Dr Jianping Dai joins Cellular Biomedicine board

Singapore: Cellular Biomedicine appointed Dr Jianping Dai to the board of directors. Dr Dai is a professor of radiolo...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | News
Chinese govt grant for DelMar, Guangxi Wuzhou

Singapore: DelMar Pharmaceuticals announced that the Chinese Bureau of Foreign Experts has approved the application for ...

July 9, 2013 | Tuesday | News
China summit to promote biomedical industry

Singapore: BioMed Innovation Summit 2013 will launch on March 14-15, 2013, in Shanghai, China, in order to promote th...

December 26, 2012 | Wednesday | News