04-Sep-17 India's ASG Eye Hospital raised INR75 crore (USD11.7 mn) in funding and has plans to utilise the funds to expand in the nine states where it currently has a presence, as well as enter nearby states. [image: Aniruddha Chowdhury / Mint]

28-Aug-17 The Cleveland Clinic has signed an agreement to participate in the opening of a hospital in Shanghai, its first in China. According to the Clinic, it is interested in "promoting the Cleveland Clinic's clinical expertise in new markets." [image: Science Based Medicine]

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20-Aug-17 In preparation for the 2020 Olympics, Tokyo is getting 14 hospitals foreign-patient ready. Preparations are starting, to ensure they will be able to provide medical services in multiple languages and be sufficiently equipped to accept foreign patients. [image: Nikkei Asian Review]

25-Aug-17 The CEO of Medical Departures, a company facilitating medical travel to Asia, says “the level of care and attention they enjoy is unlike anything they would receive at home,” and he doesn't expect medical tourism to Asia to slow. [image: Business In Asia]

23-Aug-17 Columbia China, a 50-50 joint venture between Seattle’s Columbia Pacific Management and Singapore's Temasek, has started construction on a 500-bed multi-specialty hospital in Zhejiang Province. [image: Columbia China]