Malaysia News
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Zaluvida invests RM60 mn to foster R&D
Malaysia | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 04 Aug, 2014
Singapore: To tap the increasing opportunities in the emerging markets across the globe, Zaluvida Corporate Sdn Bhd, a global investment company, announced that it had invested RM60 million...Read more
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Malaysia | Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 15 May, 2015
Singapore: However, companies must reinvigorate and expand their deal-making strategies in order to become market leaders. Additional key findings in Ernst and Young's Firepower Index and ...Read more
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Drug resistant bugs on the rise: Malaysia
Malaysia | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 03 Oct, 2014
Singapore: The Malaysian Health Ministry has warned that indiscriminate use of antibiotics must be stopped as antimicrobial resistance could be a major public health security concern in fut...Read more
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Fortis sells Singapore unit to Malaysia's IHH healthcare
Malaysia | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 15 Sep, 2014
Singapore: Fortis healthcare announced that it has inked a deal to sell its entire diagnostic and molecular imaging unit in Singapore - RadLink-Asia, to Malaysia-based IHH healthcare, for $...Read more
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Columbia Asia to invest $150 mn in India, SE Asia
Malaysia | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 10 Sep, 2014
Singapore: US-based Columbia Pacific Management, provider of hospital systems, plans to invest USD150 million to expand its network to 34 hospitals and one clinic by 2018 in south east Asia...Read more
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Toshiba: Digital imaging operations in Malaysia
Malaysia | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 13 Sep, 2014
Singapore: Toshiba Medical Systems Corp (TMSC), Japan, announced that the company is planning to move its diagnostic imaging operations to Malaysia. TMSC also announced that is investing $...Read more
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Malaysia might levy sintax for soft drinks
Malaysia | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 06 Jul, 2014
Singapore: Malaysian Health Ministry is considering on levying 'sintax' for soft drinks. The move is considered to address the high prevalence of diabetes in the country. Health director g...Read more
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CRO survey: India, China dominate market
Malaysia | Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 24 Nov, 2012
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Eppendorf lab support to boost BioNexus program
Malaysia | Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 18 May, 2012
In a bid to extend support to biotech innovator companies in Malaysia, laboratory technology company, Eppendorf, recently said that any company supported by BiotechCorp under its BioNexus s...Read more
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Malaysia seeks potential growth in medical device sector'
Malaysia | Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 29 Jan, 2015
Singapore: Total healthcare expenditure in Malaysia could exceed $20 billion by 2025 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11 percent from 2015 to 2020, accordi...Read more
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Southeast Asia's fitness drive against obesity
Malaysia | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 12 Jun, 2014
Singapore: Though the south east Asian people are considered to be the thinnest in the world, there is an exponential increase in the number of obese people in Malaysia, Singapore and Thail...Read more
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DKSH Holdings partners with Novo Nordisk
Malaysia | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 01 Oct, 2014
Singapore: Malaysia-based, DKSH Holdings has inked a pact with Novo Nordisk Pharma Malaysia, for marketing and distributing Novo Fine 31G and 32G insulin needles among Malaysian pharmacies....Read more
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Robust multi-tech approaches in HIV therapies in Malaysia
Malaysia | Opinion | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 22 Aug, 2012
In Asia Pacific, an estimated 6.1 million people (5.9 million adults) are living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in 2009. In 2009, the number of newly infected HIV people in the...Read more
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Malaysia aims to be a global player in helathcare
Malaysia | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 27 Nov, 2014
Singapore: Malaysian Prime Minster Mr Najib Tun Razak recently said that with increasing complexity in the bio-based industry, more aggressive strategies were needed to spur the growth of b...Read more
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Asia bioscience grows 11 percent, crosses $150 bn
Malaysia | Analysis | By Nandita Singh | 0 Comment | 21 Jun, 2013
During the year 2012, the bioscience industry in the Asia Pacific region clocked $154.40 billion in revenues, recording a double-digit growth of 11.07 percent over $139 billion of 2011. Aro...Read more
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Malaysia can bet on medical tourism industry: Analyst
Malaysia | Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 29 Jan, 2015
Singapore: Compared to other countries in ASEAN, Malaysia has a higher-than-average availability of medical personnel and high quality facilities providing treatments across different range...Read more
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Asia's Fastest 50 bio-firms shine
Malaysia | Opinion | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 12 Jun, 2013
The annual list of Asia's fastest growing pharma companies, compiled painstakingly by the BioSpectrum Asia team, is out. A remarkable aspect of the growth of companies in 2012 is the gravit...Read more
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BioValence targets next-gen antiviral technology
Malaysia | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 26 Mar, 2012
Malaysian life sciences industry has so far focused primarily on natural products and their extracts. BioValence, set up in 2011, decided to go against the paradigm and exploit the much lar...Read more
