10 challenges for businesses in APAC

The Asia Pacific healthcare market is estimated to capture 34.6 percent of the global healthcare market by 2015. Frost &...

May 17, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
Avesthagen to earn $30 mn in 10 years from AvestaDHA

New Delhi: Avesthagen entered into a license agreement with a leading specialty chemicals company for its 100 percent ve...

August 27, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Sun Pharma revenue touches $480 million in Q2 2012

Mumbai: Sun Pharmaceutical Industries reported a growth of 62 percent in its net sales for the quarter ending June 30, 2...

August 10, 2012 | Friday | Company results
India clears 12 FDI proposals worth $58 mn

New Delhi: The Indian government has cleared 12 foreign direct investment (FDI) proposals worth $58.13 million. However...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Kemwell gets FDA nod after cGMP audit

Bangalore: Kemwell Biopharma's oral solids manufacturing facility located in Bangalore, India, has successfully complete...

February 1, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
Netherlands' IMCD acquires India's Indchem

Singapore: Netherlands-based IMCD has acquired India's Indchem International. The business of Mumbai-based Indchem has a...

February 20, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Caraco closes tender offer to acquire DUSA

Mumbai: Caraco Pharma subsidiary, Caraco Acquisition, highlighted that its tender offer to acquire all of the outstandin...

December 21, 2012 | Friday | News
BioSpectrum Asia honors Asia's best in bioscience

Singapore: The fifth BioSpectrum Asia Pacific Awards 2013 were given away at a glittering ceremony at Hotel Fort Canning...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | News
What is the revenue size, range of CROs in APAC?

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
FIPB clears seven pharma proposals, defers three

Singapore: The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) has cleared seven out of the ten investment proposals in the ph...

July 8, 2013 | Monday | Regulatory
Generics market to touch $231 bn by 2017: Report

Singapore: The global generic pharmaceuticals market is likely to witness strong growth in the next few years owing to t...

June 4, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
India, China to appeal against EU regulation on API

Bangalore: Following a change in rules for importing active substances into the European Union for medicinal products fo...

August 10, 2012 | Friday | News
Xenetic recruits patients for anemia drug trial in India

Singapore: UK-based biopharma company, Xenetic Biosciences, said in a statement that the recruitment process for the tri...

September 4, 2013 | Wednesday | News
India's regulatory framework needs lot more work

Everything does not seem to be well in the pharmaceutical industry of Asia's third largest economy - India. Although the...

September 5, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
India's Jubilant receives FDA warning for US plant

Singapore: Jubilant Life Sciences has joined the list of leading Indian drug makers who have received a warning from the...

December 6, 2013 | Friday | News
Thumbs down to report recommending GM trial ban

Bangalore: Eminent biotechnologists, agricultural scientists and heads of agribiotech industry came together on Saturday...

October 29, 2012 | Monday | News
Start-ups redefining the industry

Life sciences industry in the Asia Pacific recorded the double digit growth of 16.6 percent, reaching $128.26 billion in...

May 30, 2012 | Wednesday | News
India-made prostate cancer drug files for IND with FDA

Bangalore: A new drug to treat prostate cancer, which was developed by Bangalore-based Jubilant Biosys and US-based coll...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | News