SFDA approves Sihuan diabetes drug trials

Singapore: Sihuan Pharmaceutical's pinoxacin hydrochloride, a Category 1.1 new drug developed by the company's innovativ...

February 25, 2013 | Monday | Regulatory
China SFDA approves Biostar sale of gel capsules

Singapore: Biostar Pharmaceuticals, China-based manufacturer and marketer of pharmaceutical and health supplement produc...

August 6, 2012 | Monday | News
Ironwood, AZ announce partnership for China

Singapore: AstraZeneca and Ironwood Pharmaceuticals announced an agreement to co‐develop and co-commercialize Iro...

October 25, 2012 | Thursday | News
CHR, Chinese traditional medicine university join hands

Singapore: China Health Resource (CHR) extended its strategic agreement with the prestigious Chengdu University of Tradi...

October 16, 2012 | Tuesday | News
A biotech firm to provide CTC processing services in China

Singapore: Singapore-based Clearbridge Biomedics has partnered with Shanghai LIDE Biotech to set up the LIDE-Clearbridge...

April 21, 2015 | Tuesday | News
First-ever WHO prequalification for China vaccine firm

Singapore: PATH, a global health nonprofit organization, and China National Biotec Group, a leading vaccine manufacturer...

October 11, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
Chinese fuse bird, human flu to create new viruses

Singapore: Researchers at Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, China, led by Dr Chen Hualan have produced 127 different...

May 10, 2013 | Friday | News
H7N9 antibodies high among poultry workers'

Singapore: Serological tests conducted on poultry workers of southern Guangdong province city of Shenzhen China, showed ...

June 4, 2014 | Wednesday | News
China steps up to enhance infant healthcare

Singapore: Healthcare technology and service provider, PerkinElmer, has collaborated with China's National Health and Fa...

June 4, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Toshiba Medical establishes Chinese procurement center

Singapore: Toshiba Medical Systems has established Chinese Procurement Center in Shanghai. Its procurement bases were pr...

August 3, 2012 | Friday | News
Chip in the eye to treat blindness

Ms Tsang Wy Suet Yun, a patient at the University of Hong Kong Eye Institute who was legally blind for 15 years, can see...

June 7, 2012 | Thursday | News
AABB certifies Beike cord blood, tissue banking

Singapore: Beike Biotechnology has been awarded AABB accreditation for cord blood and cord tissue banking. This accredit...

May 31, 2012 | Thursday | News
Concord acquires stakes in MD Anderson center

‎Singapore: Concord Medical Services, China's hospital management solution, has acquired 19.98 percent indirect ow...

January 7, 2013 | Monday | News
Mindray to acquire controlling stake in Hangzhou Optcla

Singapore: Mindray Medical, a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices worldwide, is set to acqui...

May 21, 2012 | Monday | News
Director of Chinese firm Simcere resigns

Singapore: Mr Gary Siu Kwan Sik, an independent director of China-based Simcere Pharmaceutical, has resigned, effective ...

October 15, 2012 | Monday | News
Chinese doctors propose blacklist, life ban for violations

Singapore: The Chinese Medical Doctor Association, a not-for-profit association representing about 2.1 million practicin...

August 14, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Herborium discontinues talks with China Health Resource

Singapore: Herborium Group, a botanical therapeutics company, presently discontinued its talks with China Health Resourc...

July 23, 2012 | Monday | News
Ip Man' martial arts superstar Yen joins polio campaign

Singapore: Internationally-renowned Hong Kong action star Mr Donnie Yen has joined the growing roster of public figures ...

August 21, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Quintiles to advise Ascendancy on pharma deals in China

Singapore: San Francisco-based Ascendancy Healthcare has tied up with Quintiles to get help from the contract research g...

July 30, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Charles River acquires Galapagos at $172 mn cash

Singapore: Charles River Laboratories has completed the previously announced acquisition of the CRO services division of...

April 1, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Michael Culme-Seymour is Marken's new APAC VP

‎Singapore: Supply chain firm, Marken has appointed Mr Michael Culme-Seymour as VP, Asia Pacific, effective Octobe...

October 4, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Antisense Therapeutics ties up with China CRO for trial

Singapore: Antisense Therapeutics, an Australian publicly listed biopharmaceutical drug discovery and development compan...

March 19, 2013 | Tuesday | News
BioPharma Asia: Is Asia ready to boost global drug pipeline?

Singapore: Asia share of global GDP, measured in purchasing power, has increased from 26.8 percent in 2001 to 33.8 perce...

March 17, 2014 | Monday | Analysis
China reports four new H7N9 infections

Singapore: The National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) of China notified four new laboratory-confirmed ca...

June 12, 2014 | Thursday | News
BGI-Complete deal gets green flag from China

Singapore: BGI-Shenzhen and Complete Genomics have obtained clearance from China's National Development and Reform Commi...

January 14, 2013 | Monday | News
Australia to grow Chinese anti-cancer fruit

Singapore: University of Queensland (UQ) is soon going to globally launch a delicious berry-like ancient Chinese red bay...

December 13, 2012 | Thursday | News
GSK apologizes for 'breaches of Chinese law'

Singapore: In what has come as a shocker to the global life sciences industry, Britian's largest drug maker GlaxoSmithKl...

July 23, 2013 | Tuesday | News
H7N9 fatality count reaches 130 in China

Singapore: With more cases of H7N9 infections and deaths being reported in China, the total number of cases of the outbr...

May 6, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Neusoft to acquire stakes in JV with Philips

Singapore: Neusoft, an IT solution and service provider in China with operations across the globe, has signed a term she...

February 11, 2013 | Monday | News
Report: Chinese pharma industry growth slows

Singapore: The Chinese pharmaceutical industry and market in 2012 and early 2013 were characterized by slowing growth, f...

July 9, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Radioembolization to see strong growth in China

Singapore: According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), a provider of market intelligence on medical technology, the em...

May 24, 2012 | Thursday | News
China's Neusoft gets FDA nod for CT scanner

Singapore: NeuViz 64 multi-slice CT scanner from China-based Neusoft Medical Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Neuso...

December 5, 2012 | Wednesday | Regulatory
GSK China head charged with bribery

Singapore: An investigation that lasted ten long months has now culminated in the Chinese police charging the former Chi...

May 14, 2014 | Wednesday | News
BioDuro opens discovery lab in Shanghai

Singapore: BioDuro, a PPD Company, has opened a new state-of-the-art laboratory in Shanghai, China, strengthening its ab...

May 16, 2013 | Thursday | News
Oliver-Tolas expands global operations

Singapore: The newly acquired 50,000 square foot facility is adjacent to Oliver-Tolas' current Feasterville, Pennsylvani...

July 8, 2013 | Monday | News
Biostar Pharma suffers major loss

Singapore: Biostar Pharmaceuticals, a PRC-based manufacturer and marketer of pharmaceutical and health supplement produ...

August 15, 2012 | Wednesday | Company results
GSK China organized Greece trip for Botox doctors

Singapore: In an effort to get Chinese doctors to begin prescribing GlaxoSmithKline's Botox medication, the British drug...

August 19, 2013 | Monday | News
Dehaier to supply equipment to Beijing hospitals

Singapore: Dehaier Medical has signed three medical equipment procurement agreements with Beijing's Hospitals 304 and 30...

November 6, 2012 | Tuesday | News
China supplement firm regains NASDAQ compliance

Singapore: Biostar Pharmaceuticals, a China-based manufacturer and marketer of pharmaceutical and health supplement prod...

November 15, 2013 | Friday | News
Italian firm to market orphan drug, Attila, in China

Singapore: Italy based Abiogen Pharma is in an expansion spree in Asia and has collaborated with Hong Kong firm Lee's Ph...

May 26, 2014 | Monday | News
Fake drugs worth $180Mn seized in China

Singapore: China's Ministry of Public Security cracked the whip on counterfeiting of drugs and detained close to 2,000 p...

August 6, 2012 | Monday | News
Quintiles to expand lab testing capabilities in China

Singapore: Quintiles and local dignitaries of China have entered into agreements to establish a Quintiles regional headq...

June 18, 2012 | Monday | News
Emerging Market Access conference on Oct 3

In the past years, the global pharmaceutical industry has been experiencing a shift in its development: a geographic swi...

August 31, 2012 | Friday | News
NovaBay signs strategic agreement for Asia markets

Singapore: NovaBay Pharmaceuticals has expanded its commercial partnership agreement with Naqu Area Pioneer Pharma, a Sh...

September 17, 2012 | Monday | News
Golden Meditech signs deal with subsidiary China Bright

Singapore Golden Meditech Holdings, a leading integrated healthcare enterprise in China has reached agreements with cer...

September 20, 2012 | Thursday | News
SI to acquire antioxidants, ibuprofen, propofol business

Singapore: SI Group, US based global developer and manufacturer of chemical intermediates, plans to acquire antioxidants...

April 17, 2014 | Thursday | News
Dehaier and HEYER announce strategic cooperation agreement

Singapore: Dehaier Medical Systems, an emerging leader in the development, assembly, marketing and sale of medical devi...

June 19, 2012 | Tuesday | News
BGI-Shenzhen to acquire Complete Genomics

Singapore: BGI-Shenzhen, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Beta Acquisition Corporation, has extended its all cash ten...

October 24, 2012 | Wednesday | News
China: Emerging drug discovery destination

China's growing economic strength and population of 1.3 billion people holds tremendous potential for global pharma and ...

April 13, 2012 | Friday | Opinion
China Cord Blood, Cordlife complete transaction for acquisition

Singapore: China Cord Blood (CCBC) successfully completed a transaction with Cordlife Group and now the former wholly h...

November 14, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Chinese medicine improves spinal injury in rats

Singapore: A new study published in Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience demonstrates that Chinese herbal medicine Ji-...

August 21, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Dr Karen Chu, Parexel: Global firms will shift drug development operations to China in 2013

Recently, we've witnessed the increasing focus by biopharmaceutical companies worldwide including Asia Pacific in initia...

December 26, 2012 | Wednesday | Opinion
BGI College wins gold at iGEM jamboree

Singapore: The Shenzhen team, comprising 22 students from the innovative program of BGI College, has received the gold a...

October 11, 2012 | Thursday | News
Sinovac Biotech appoints Nan Wang as CFO

‎Singapore: China's vaccine company, Sinovac Biotech has appointed Ms Nan Wang, who is presently the VP of Sinovac...

June 4, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Vaccine shot to keep JE at bay to become reality

Singapore: Chinese scientists have discovered a new vaccine for Japanese encephalitis that kills millions every year acr...

July 22, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Mindray acquires Dragonbio's ortho business

Singapore: Mindray Medical International, a developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices worldwide, has signe...

June 7, 2012 | Thursday | News
Sinovac reports 7% decrease in sales

Singapore: Sinovac Biotech, a leading provider of vaccines in China, reported that its hepatitis vaccines sales in priva...

November 16, 2012 | Friday | News
China Cord Blood reports 31.9% rise in revenues

Singapore: China Cord Blood, China's leading provider of cord blood collection, laboratory testing, hematopoietic stem c...

August 23, 2012 | Thursday | Company results
Biostar wins another Chinese military contract

Singapore: Biostar Pharmaceuticals signed another one-year agreement worth $8 million to manufacture and supply Xijing M...

December 5, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Nolato Medical expands its operations in China

Singapore: Sweden-based Nolato is expanding its Chinese production facility with an additional 2,200 square metres, of w...

July 5, 2013 | Friday | News
Mindray to acquire Zonare for $105 mn

Singapore: Mindray Medical has plans to acquire Zonare Medical Systems, an ultrasound technology leader in the high-end ...

June 13, 2013 | Thursday | News
Sundia appoints three new independent board members

Singapore: Sundia MediTech, a China-based CRO company, appointed Mr Albert Liou, Mr Haibo Wang, and Ms Wilma Wei as inde...

October 3, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Life science sector in China expect 8-10% salary growth

Singapore: Salaries of life sciences professionals in China are expected to increase by 8 to 13 percent overall in 2015/...

October 23, 2015 | Friday | Analysis
Dutch biotech firm raises $6.9 mn in China

Singapore: Clinical-stage Dutch biotechnology company, Mucosis has entered into a long-term collaboration and license ag...

April 16, 2014 | Wednesday | News
WuXi appoints Dr. Steve Yang as COO

Singapore: WuXi PharmaTech, R&D services company with operations in China and United States, has appointed Dr. Steve...

April 16, 2014 | Wednesday | Influencers
APAC's NSCLC market to show robust growth by 2019

Singapore: The GBI Research has revealed that the non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) therapeutics market value in the As...

March 21, 2014 | Friday | News
GSK China operations head Mark Reilly flees country

Singapore: Controversy stricken British pharmaceutical major, GlaxoSmithKline has had to answer more than one scandalous...

July 18, 2013 | Thursday | News
Marken gets 12-year license in China

Singapore: Global clinical supply chain solutions provider Marken has been granted a 12-year license to ship biological ...

October 5, 2012 | Friday | News
Shanghai hospital implements Accenture system

Singapore: Accenture has helped Shanghai East Hospital to complete the implementation of a Hospital Resource Planning (H...

February 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News
3SBio, Selecta join hands to develop gout therapy

Singapore: China based biotech firm, 3SBio, has partnered with Selecta Biosciences to license out pegsiticase (Uricase P...

June 20, 2014 | Friday | News
Which domain of clinical research do APAC CROs focus on?

The fifth edition of the annual BioSpectrum Asia Pacific clinical research organization (CRO) Survey, which is conduct...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Atrium, Fosun JV to sell supplements in China

Singapore: Dietary supplements firm Atrium Innovations entered into a joint venture with Fosun Industrial (a wholly owne...

February 28, 2013 | Thursday | News
NYSE delists China Botanic Pharma

Singapore: China Botanic Pharmaceutical received a notice from the NYSE due to its noncompliance with the plan that was ...

May 9, 2013 | Thursday | Company results
Boston Scientific China gets new MD

Singapore: Mr Warren Wang has been appointed vice president and managing director of Boston Scientific Corporation's ope...

June 14, 2012 | Thursday | News
Johnson portable doser delivers 100N force

Singapore: Hong kong-based Johnson Electric launched miniature medication dosing system technology under the Johnson Med...

March 25, 2013 | Monday | News
Japan's Tanabe Pharma to build new plant in China

Singapore: Japanese drug major Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma has announced that one of its subsidiaries, Tianjin Tanabe Seiya...

August 8, 2013 | Thursday | News
CANbridge, Azaya do cancer drug R&D in China, North Asia

Singapore: CANbridge Life Sciences entered into a deal with US-based Azaya Therapeutics, to develop and commercialize th...

September 12, 2013 | Thursday | News
3SBio shareholders get nod for merger agreement

Singapore: The shareholders of China-based 3SBio have voted at an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) in favor of a prop...

May 24, 2013 | Friday | News
Malaysian, Chinese medtech firms form JV

Singapore: Malaysia-based medical device producers, OSA Niaga and Straits Orthopedics entered into a joint venture (JV) ...

December 28, 2012 | Friday | News
TNI Biotech, Hubei Qianjian to develop cancer drugs

Singapore: TNI BioTech and Hubei Qianjiang Pharmaceutical, a leading Chinese pharmaceutical company will co-develop new...

October 19, 2012 | Friday | News
Pricing issues in China keep investors at bay: Report

Singapore: Multinational pharmaceutical firms in China continue to see double-digit sales growth. However, several firms...

September 26, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
WuXi PharmaTech invests in TruTag Security

Singapore: WuXi Corporate Venture Fund from WuXi PharmaTech,bioscience R&D services company with operations in China...

April 2, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Asia pharma industry to touch $386 bn:Report

Singapore: As Asia emerges as a major engine of global economic growth, the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries ...

December 5, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Are we awaiting a bird flu pandemic?

Singapore: In a study published in the journal Nature, scientists have cautioned that the deadly bird flu virus that is ...

March 14, 2015 | Saturday | News
China Cord Blood clocks $21 mn in Q1 2014

Singapore: China Cord Blood Corporation (CCBC), a leading provider of cord blood collection, laboratory testing, hematop...

August 27, 2013 | Tuesday | Company results
Healthcare equity investment grows by 125% in APAC, declines in west

Singapore: As the global investment community continues its recovery from the 2008 financial crisis, the total value of ...

March 28, 2014 | Friday | News
German, Taiwan firms join hands for genital wart drug

Singapore: Germany-based Medigene and SynCore Biotechnology, a member of Taiwan's Sinphar Pharmaceutical Group, expanded...

April 11, 2013 | Thursday | News
China Nuokang merges with Merger Sub

Singapore: China Nuokang Bio-Pharmaceutical, a leading China-based biopharmaceutical company focused on the R&D, ma...

October 1, 2012 | Monday | News
Agenix seeks China SFDA nod for hepatitis candidate

Singapore: Drug and diagnostic company Agenix announced that it was on track to submit a new drug clinical trial applic...

April 2, 2013 | Tuesday | News
BioSpecifics, Auxilium, Sobi join hands for Xiapex

Singapore: US-based BioSpecifics Technologies, a biopharmaceutical company, and its partner Auxilium Pharmaceuticals hav...

July 17, 2013 | Wednesday | News
US biosimilars market to be $9 bn by 2020

Singapore: A new report by global business intelligence firm GBI Research has highlighted that the massive potential for...

October 3, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Novo Nordisk invests $100 mn in Beijing

Singapore: Novo Nordisk, which was the first multinational company to open a research center in China in 1997, now reaff...

September 25, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Cell death pioneer wins Agilent thought leader award

Singapore: Dr Junying Yuan, a pioneer and leading researcher in the field of cell death at the Chinese Academy of Scienc...

December 11, 2013 | Wednesday | Influencers
Mr Harish Nuggehalli & Mr Ashwin Sreenivasan: Focus on quality, cost will intensify in 2013

We are looking to take several initiatives in 2013, including the development of a local eco-system of vendors by connec...

December 26, 2012 | Wednesday | Opinion
Sinopharm Shyndec passes clean production inspection

Singapore: The Pudong base of Shanghai Shyndec Pharmaceutical (Sinopharm Shyndec) in China received clearance from an in...

December 3, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
China to buy Gamma Knife surgery worth $25 mn

Singapore: National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) of China is to purchase seven Leksell Gamma Knife Perf...

September 12, 2013 | Thursday | News
Luqa launches scar treatment in China

Singapore: China-based Luqa Pharmaceuticals has launched its first product in China, Strataderm Gel, an innovative silic...

February 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Beijing Genomics Institute, Gates foundation to collaborate

Singapore: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with China-headquarter...

September 28, 2012 | Friday | News
Eisai expands its anti-obesity drug market

Singapore: Global pharmaceutical firm, Eisai has expanded the marketing and supply agreement between its U.S. subsidiary...

November 8, 2013 | Friday | News
Co-Diagnostics, DNA Logix JV to target poor nations

Singapore: US-based Co-Diagnostics and DNA Logix have formed a joint venture, Co-Diagnostics HBDC to address diagnostic ...

July 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News

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