25-May-17 A Chinese consortium is buying Australian firm Ansell Ltd's condom division, the world's no.2 condom maker, for USD600 mn, betting on surging demand in China as more emphasis is placed on public health education. [image: Reuters / David Grey]

22-May-17 The world’s second-largest healthcare group, Integrated Healthcare Holdings (IHH), has emerged as the front-runner to acquire Malvinder and Shivinder Singh's Religare healthcare assets, after the Malaysian hospital chain ended its decade-long association with Apollo. [image: Fortis Annual Report / Asia Samachar]

04-May-17 Private equity companies TPG and General Atlantic have joined forces in a bid to acquire Fortis Healthcare, India’s second-largest hospital chain by market value. The deal, if concluded, will also involve the purchase of the diagnostics arm SRL. [image: ET Healthworld]

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14-Apr-17 China's Aier Eye Hospital plans to purchase the largest listed eye-clinic group in Europe, making it the world's largest ophthalmic medical group. It announced an offer to buy Spain's Clinica Baviera SA, specializing in laser eye surgery, with its 280 ophthalmologists and 76 eye clinics in Spain, Germany and Italy. The acquisition will cost Aier EUR152 mn (USD162 mn). [image: Ge Yinian / China Daily]