Pharma Logistics China from October 23

Singapore: The 2nd Pharma Logistics China 2012 will be held from October 23 till October 25 at Shanghai, China. The con...

August 21, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Takeda diabetes drug gets China's import license

Singapore: China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) issued an Import Drug License (IDL) for Takeda's type 2 di...

August 6, 2013 | Tuesday | News
WHO confirms new H7N9 cases

Singapore: Even as China reported eight new cases of H7N9 earlier this week, the World Health Organization has posted tw...

February 20, 2014 | Thursday | News
Menarini to market Moberg nails in China

Singapore: Menarini Asia Pacific has been granted exclusive rights to market and sell Moberg Pharma's Kerasal Nail in Ch...

July 23, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Dr Ling Su is new DIA board president

Singapore: DIA, the premier organization dedicated to knowledge exchange that fosters innovation to raise the level of h...

August 8, 2012 | Wednesday | News
BGI-Shenzhen extends acquisition date of Complete

Singapore: BGI-Shenzhen's wholly owned subsidiary, Beta Acquisition, extended its all cash tender offer to purchase all ...

December 14, 2012 | Friday | News
3SBio to merge with Decade Sunshine

Singapore: China-based 3SBio entered into an agreement and plan-of-merger with Decade Sunshine, an exempted company wit...

February 11, 2013 | Monday | News
APAC healthcare industry becomes cloud friendly

Singapore: A recent report presented by Frost & Sullivan has said that the healthcare industry in Asia Pacific is em...

November 7, 2013 | Thursday | News
Material science firm Crystal to open lab in China

Singapore: Crystal Pharmatech is going to open its laboratories in China in order to provide customized, materials scie...

January 2, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Mindray re-elects its directors

Singapore: Shareholders of Mindray Medical, a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices, have re-e...

January 2, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Life Tech Sanger sequencer gets China SFDA nod

Singapore: Life Technologies announced that its Applied Biosystems 3500xL Dx Genetic Analyzer has been approved by Chin...

March 28, 2013 | Thursday | News
EntreMed gets funding from China investors

Singapore: EntreMed, a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing therapeutics for the treatment of cancer, has re...

March 11, 2013 | Monday | News
China Nepstar disposes 40% equity ownership in Yunnan Jianzhijia

Singapore: China Nepstar Chain Drugstore has completed the sales of its 40 percent equity ownership in Yunnan Jianzhijia...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
China vigilant on drug price policy

Singapore: A team of China's National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) led by Mr Li Xi, head, Permanent Dis...

August 6, 2013 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Parexel opens its 6th office in China

Singapore: Parexel International opened a new office in Shenyang, China. This location will support growing client deman...

May 17, 2013 | Friday | News
ShangPharma celebrates 10 years with Eli Lilly

Singapore: ShangPharma, a China-based pharmaceutical and biotechnology research and development outsourcing company, cel...

June 5, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Top 20 APAC Country Analysis: Korea

Singapore: South Korea is the fourth largest contributor to the lifescience market in the region. • Korean Minis...

June 20, 2015 | Saturday | Analysis
A time to rethink talent management

        Year 2011 was an action-packed-year for HR professionals in Asia Pacific life sciences industry. It te...

May 29, 2012 | Tuesday | Opinion
John Crowley is Charles River's CAO

Singapore: Charles River Laboratories has appointed Mr John Crowley to the role of corporate senior VP, corporate contro...

September 27, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Zhejiang Medicine, Ambrx to develop antibody drug conjugate for breast cancer

Singapore: Clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, Ambrx and China's Zhejiang Medicine (ZMC) have formed a collaborati...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
Innovative way to meet the global HSA requirement

Human serum albumin (HSA), a blood protein that is widely used in drug and vaccine production, is in high demand around ...

March 26, 2012 | Monday | News
BGI-Shenzhen extends tender offer for Complete Genomics

Singapore: BGI-Shenzhen (BGI) announced that it, through its wholly owned subsidiary Beta Acquisition, has extended its...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
China Botanic gets warning from NYSE

Singapore: China Botanic Pharmaceutical (formerly Renhuang Pharmaceuticals) received a warning letter from the NYSE MKT...

January 16, 2013 | Wednesday | News
New strategies drive growth in Yunnan Baiyao

Yunnan Baiyao made new strategies for 2011 and the year recorded relocation, expansion of the company's business develop...

June 11, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
Biostar signs another $3 mn military contract within a month

Singapore: China-based Biostar Pharmaceuticals signed a one-year agreement, valued at approximately $3.0 million, to man...

October 18, 2012 | Thursday | News
Chinese to get first-ever oral rotavirus vaccine

Singapore: The not-for-profit organization, International Medica Foundation, that works towards the development of a saf...

July 3, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Xiangxue Pharma acquires rights for Kinex KX02

Singapore: Kinex Pharmaceuticals executed a license agreement with Xiangxue Pharmaceuticals granting Xiangxue Pharmaceut...

May 22, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Chinese, Hong Kong scientists map H7N9 risk infection

Singapore: A map of avian influenza (H7N9), comprising of bird migration patterns and estimations of poultry production ...

May 8, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Mr George Baeder, Quintiles: Companies will fail to leverage on what China has to offer in 2013

China's role in the global drug industry will fundamentally change; most companies will fail to capitalize on this oppor...

December 25, 2012 | Tuesday | Opinion
Takeda's diabetes drug gets Chinese FDA nod

Singapore: Japanese major Takeda Pharmaceutical has said that the China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) has ...

August 1, 2013 | Thursday | Regulatory
Guangzhou records a whopping growth of over 50%

Clocking $1.3 billion revenue in 2012, Guangzhou Pharmaceutical recorded a growth of over 50 percent. A well-recognize...

June 4, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
What bioscience trends do the industry leaders predict for 2013?

The bioscience industry is about to step into 2013 and the year is predicted to unfold with new opportunities and trends...

January 3, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Pfizer animal health firm to make pig vaccines

Singapore: Zoetis, which is the animal health business of Pfizer, received approval by Chinese Ministry of Agriculture f...

August 6, 2013 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Joan Yan is Marken's GM in China

Singapore: Global clinical supply chain solutions provider, Marken, appointed Ms Joan Yan as its new general manager for...

July 4, 2013 | Thursday | News
Top pharma deals in the last 5 years in APAC

The number of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) that have been made over the past two years have almost returned to pre...

June 19, 2012 | Tuesday | Opinion
What are the key mergers & acquisitions of Q1 2013?

Most pharmaceutical companies are sitting on the patent cliff and their drug pipelines are facing severe exhaustion. The...

June 12, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Cancer claimed 8.2 mn lives in 2012: UN

Singapore: Cancer is the biggest cause of mortality worldwide as the killer disease claimed an estimated 8.2 million liv...

February 4, 2014 | Tuesday | Analysis
Jonathan Song appointed BDE for C3i in Asia

Singapore: C3i, the leader in service desk support and business process outsourcing (BPO) services for the life sciences...

July 17, 2012 | Tuesday | News
China Botanic gets warning letter from NY exchange

Singapore: China Botanic Pharmaceutical, China based biopharmaceutical company, has received a warning letter from the N...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
WuXi, OMT expand antibody development tie

Singapore: WuXi PharmaTech, an R&D outsourcing company with operations in China and the US, and Open Monoclonal Tech...

March 6, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Chinese scientist makes breakthrough finding in polysaccharides

‎Singapore: Professor Ding Kan's research team members from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy ...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Complete Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen to merge

Singapore: Complete Genomics and BGI-Shenzhen, China, entered into a definitive merger agreement according to which a w...

September 18, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Luqa, Stratpharma extent China collaboration

Singapore: China focused company, Luqa Pharmaceuticals has announced its decision to extend its collaboration with Swiss...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
China to blacklist corrupt drugmakers

Singapore: China has decided to introduce a healthcare corruption 'blacklist' this 2014 to nab drugmakers and medical de...

January 3, 2014 | Friday | News
What were the top 20 M&A deals in pharma and biotech sector in 2012?

A majority of life science firms are standing on the edge of the patent cliff and their drug pipelines are experiencing ...

June 12, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
WuXi opens first cGMP biologics facility in China

Singapore: WuXi AppTec has invested substantially in building its capabilities and capacity in biologics in the past fe...

October 22, 2012 | Monday | News
Accuray showcases CyberKnife, TomoTherapy Systems at CHINA-HOSPEQ 2013

Singapore: US-based Accuray showcased its CyberKnife and TomoTherapy Systems at 22nd China International Medical Instrum...

August 19, 2013 | Monday | News
Zhejiang, Celsion terminate cancer drug deal

Singapore: Zheijang Hisun Pharmaceutical is looking to discontinue the exclusive option to license ThermoDox in China. T...

February 6, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Charles River buys Vital River in China

Singapore: Charles River Laboratories International has entered into an agreement to acquire 75 percent ownership of Vi...

November 1, 2012 | Thursday | News
German vaccine delivery company enters China

Singapore: German company Injex Pharma registered Injex30 needle free injection system with the Chinese State Food and D...

May 3, 2013 | Friday | News
Chinese police probe GSK staff for 'economic crimes'

Singapore: The Chinese police have been investigating senior staff from the Chinese office of the British drug major Gl...

July 2, 2013 | Tuesday | News
ShangPharma completes merger

‎Singapore: ShangPharma, a leading China-based pharmaceutical and biotechnology research and development outsourci...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | Company results
Sinopharm bullish on expansion

    Sinopharm Group continued to dominate the pharmaceutical industry in China and across the Asia Pacific region ...

June 4, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
Medtech companies need to bring innovation: PwC

Singapore: Medical technology companies may be losing their competitive edge and are in need of a different approach to ...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Pfizer cancer drug gets first-ever China SFDA nod

Singapore: Pfizer received approval for Xalkori (crizotinib) for Chinese State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), as t...

February 25, 2013 | Monday | Regulatory
Asia vaccine strategists call for collaboration

Asia needs a solution, that goes beyond traditional structure, models and pathways, to meet the essential vaccine supply...

June 18, 2013 | Tuesday | News
BIO 2014: Global innovation shifting to China

San Diego: Multinational biotech companies and bioclusters of Boston, California and Germany are increasingly making t...

July 1, 2014 | Tuesday | Analysis
Eli Lilly, China firm to co-develop diabetes drug

‎Singapore: China based pharmaceutical company, Yabao Pharmaceutical, has partnered with Eli Lilly to co-develop L...

July 7, 2014 | Monday | News
ScinoPharm, Coland develop cancer generics in China

‎Singapore: ScinoPharm Taiwan and Taiwan-listed, China-based company, Coland, have formed a strategic alliance to ...

May 13, 2013 | Monday | News
Using rice grains as factories for producing medicines

 Human serum albumin (HSA) is a soluble protein that functions primarily as a carrier protein for steroids, fatty acids...

August 17, 2012 | Friday | Opinion
World Bank: China needs healthcare reforms

Singapore: Gripped by an endemic of lifestyle diseases, China has now been called upon by the World Bank to bring about ...

July 21, 2014 | Monday | News
Quintiles China report: Low household income is challenge for pharma

Singapore: A new Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report sponsored by Quintiles concludes that "China is a complex mark...

September 17, 2012 | Monday | News
Chipscreen gets SFDA nod after accelerated review

‎Singapore: China-based Chipscreen Biosciences announced the achievement of the primary endpoint in the pivotal, r...

April 17, 2013 | Wednesday | Regulatory
Covance receives China GLP certification

Singapore: The early development facility of Covance, which is located in Shanghai, China, received a good laboratory pr...

December 5, 2012 | Wednesday | News
China investigates Japanese, EU firms for hemodialysis equipment dumping case

Singapore: China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) has filed anti-dumping investigation case against Japanese and EU firms...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
TaiGen, Zhejiang Medicine sign agreement

Singapore: TaiGen Biotechnology and Zhejiang Medicine have signed an exclusive agreement to manufacture and commercializ...

June 26, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Marken opens pharma depot in Beijing

Singapore: Marken announced the completion of its new pharmaceutical depot in Beijing, China. The new facility which pr...

March 13, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Dehaier announces changes in senior management

Singapore: Dehaier Medical Systems, a China-headquartered company into the development, assembly, marketing and sale of ...

January 8, 2013 | Tuesday | News
MRG report: APAC cardiology market grows at 12%

Singapore: According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), the global authority on medical technology market intelligence,...

December 21, 2012 | Friday | News
WHO affirms that China is polio free

Singapore: The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed China's polio-free status following the country's successf...

December 4, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Shengtai Pharma reports FY 2012 results

Singapore: Shengtai Pharmaceutical, a manufacturer and distributor of glucose and starch in China, reported financial r...

October 1, 2012 | Monday | News
IBM's foray into Chinese healthcare sector

Singapore: In a bid to intensify its fight against cancer, China's Hangzhou Cognitive Care has teamed up with IBM to bri...

August 16, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Study finds proof of acupuncture success

Singapore: A team of researchers at the University of Southampton conducted a study of the traditional Chinese medical p...

December 6, 2012 | Thursday | Influencers
Asia goes paperless for patient records

The rising demand for cost containment in healthcare and the need to improve quality of services are driving the growth ...

November 29, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
China Biologic adopts stockholder rights plan

Singapore: China Biologic Products, a leading fully integrated plasma-based biopharmaceutical company in China, announc...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
DynoChem bio-software makes way into China

Singapore: Scale-up Systems, a leading provider of process development software to the pharmaceutical industry, entered ...

May 13, 2013 | Monday | News
China Biologic reports 6.2% sales growth in Q2 2013

Singapore: China Biologic Products, a plasma-based biopharmaceutical company in China, has marked sales growth of 6.2 pe...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | Company results
Bayer to buy Chinese firm Dihon Pharma

Singapore: Germany's leading pharmaceutical company, Bayer has said that it is planning to acquire Chinese pharma firm D...

February 28, 2014 | Friday | News
RegeneRx Chinese heart patent gets nod

Singapore: RegeneRx Biopharmaceuticals has received a Notice of Allowance of a Chinese patent application for uses of T...

February 8, 2013 | Friday | News
Chinese agritech facility to employ world's largest corn husker

Singapore: Xinjiang Origin, a subsidiary of Origin Agritech, held an opening ceremony for its regional corn seed proces...

September 13, 2012 | Thursday | News
China study: Raw garlic reduces lung cancer by 44%

Singapore: Scientists at Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China, revealed that consuming ra...

August 14, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Astrazeneca, China university in research deal

Singapore: AstraZeneca has signed a research collaboration with Fudan University, one of China's leading academic instit...

December 19, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Shandong Taibang gets SFDA approval

Singapore: The indirectly owned subsidiary of China Biologic Products, Shandong Taibang Biological Products, has receive...

June 26, 2012 | Tuesday | Regulatory
China develops world's first vaccine for enterovirus

Singapore: The world's first vaccine against a strain of enterovirus has now been developed by Chinese researchers. The ...

June 7, 2013 | Friday | News
American Society accredits Chinese military hospital

Singapore: The chest pain center at the Guangzhou General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command, China, has been grante...

August 23, 2012 | Thursday | News
WuXi's Suzhou facility clears FDA inspection

Singapore: China's research and development service firm, WuXi PharmaTech has cleared the surveillance Good Laboratory P...

June 23, 2014 | Monday | News
Golden Meditech's revenue increases by 6%

Singapore: Golden Meditech Holdings, a leading integrated healthcare enterprise in China, announced the group's interim...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Baxter's $4 bn bid for Gambro gets Chinese nod

Singapore: The US dialysis equipment maker Baxter International has received China's approval for its planned $4 billion...

August 14, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Aushon launches protein biomarker platform

Singapore: Biotech company Aushon has launched Cira, a new multiplex immunoassay platform that achieves the sensitivity ...

June 22, 2012 | Friday | News
Encephalitis vaccine to be China's first WHO prequalification

Singapore: The World Health Organization (WHO) is on the verge of approving a Chinese-made vaccine for Japanese encephal...

October 8, 2012 | Monday | News
Life Spine enters the Chinese market

Singapore: Life Spine, a medical device company dedicated to improving the quality of life for spinal patients has made...

May 26, 2014 | Monday | News
Linaclotide phase III trial initiated in China

Singapore: Ironwood Pharmaceuticals and AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals have announced the initiation of a phase III clinica...

September 11, 2013 | Wednesday | News
China to expand list of price-controlled drugs

Singapore: China is set to increase the number of products on its price-controlled "essential drugs" list. Report from R...

August 21, 2012 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Stephen Young is HitGen's new VP of BD

Singapore: HitGen, a rapidly developing lead generation services company in the global biopharmaceutical industry, has ...

January 18, 2013 | Friday | News
Bangalore gets medical quality assesment lab

Singapore: CSA Group, global testing and certification service provider with operations in China, has launched a testing...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Sinopharm to build China's largest R&D center

Singapore: Sinopharm Group is going to build China's largest Biotechnology Research Institute in Wuhan East Lake High-te...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Healthcare evolution is fuelled by silicon tech

To get an idea of how much silicon technology will impact healthcare and wellness, we just need to look at how semicondu...

February 25, 2013 | Monday | Opinion
Obesity an epidemic in developing countries'

Singapore: Out of 2.1 billion obese population in the world, 15 percent are the Indians and Chinese, reveals a study con...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
India, China to witness high growth of multiple sclerosis in 10 yrs: GlobalData

Singapore: Market analysis firm, GlobalData, reports that among counries including US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, S...

May 20, 2014 | Tuesday | Analysis
Pharma companies set eyes on China

China reported total of 97 deals worth $6.5 billion, the highest in Asia Pacific, according to a mergermarket report. Th...

June 19, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis

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