Global life sciences company, Thermo Fisher Scientific, has announced plans to develop a facility with two new sterile filling lines in Singapore, extending its capacity for developing and manufacturing therapies and vaccines in the Asia Pacific. It will include a...
Oxford University, which has partnered with British-Swedish pharmaceutical company Astra-Zeneca to produce a Covid-19 vaccine, has announced that it will use Thailand as its production base for the ASEAN region. Siam Bioscience, a Thai biopharmaceutical company, will...
Pharmaceutical giant STADA Arzneimittel AG first invested in Vietnamese Pymepharco Joint Stock Company (PME) in 2008, and over the years it has increased its direct and non-direct ownership in the Vietnamese pharmaceutical company to 80%. Recently, the German company...
Vietnam’s medical and tech experts recently participated in an online seminar organized by several ministries and local authorities in collaboration with the Australian Embassy in Vietnam and the Aus4Innovation program, a USD 8 million development assistance...
Indonesia could become a vaccine production hub for South East Asia in the near future, stated Wang Yi, China’s Foreign Minister, after a meeting with Luhut Pandjaitan, the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment of Indonesia. As part of a...
More local companies in Malaysia are competing to work with COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers for distributorship, marketing, and licensing rights even before the commencement of commercial production. These companies include Bintai Kinden, Apex Healthcare, MSMC, and...
The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) has been accelerating the process to register all Filipinos in the National Health Insurance Program (NHIP). As of August 2020, about 85.4% of the 110 million Filipinos were registered members of PhilHealth,...
Government-owned SGInnovate, in partnership with local startup Accredify, has developed a blockchain-based solution Digital Health Passport to facilitate more efficient management of personal COVID-19 medical records. The platform allows for medical documents of...
The Government Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO) has signed an agreement with PPT Public Co Ltd. to build a cancer pharmaceutical factory, the first in Thailand that will cover all types of oncology products, with the goal of reducing the cost of related drugs and...
After more than two months of piloting, Vietnam’s Ministry of Health officially opened a network connecting 1,000 medical examination and treatment facilities with 27 central hospitals in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. The new telehealth network is part of an...
A smart helmet designed to detect COVID-19 will be available in the Philippines as KC Wearable, a Chinese technology and innovation company, announced its partnerships with two distributors in the Philippines. The KC N901 Smart Helmet can detect if the wearer has high...
The Ministry of Health in Vietnam has launched a new electronic portal for publishing the prices of medical equipment. The prices will be published on this website: https://quanlytrangthietbiyte.com/tra-cuu-ttb-y-te According to the Acting Minister of Health of...
