Bangladesh

Alibaba unit Ant Financial to buy 20% stake in Bangladesh payments firm bKash

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27-Apr-18 Ant Financial, a unit of Alibaba, is buying a 20 percent stake in Bangladeshi mobile financial services provider bKash. Established in 2010, bKash runs a network of more than 180,000 agents with over 30 million registered accounts. [image: Reuters / Bobby Yip]

VLCC to open 50 institutes in India; plans to go international

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09-Apr-18 Indian beauty and wellness firm VLCC is expanding, with plans to add 50 new training institutes to its existing 70. VLCC also has plans to foray into new markets such as Canada, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Oman and Bangladesh. [image: BCCL]

Bangladeshis flock to Indian, Thai hospitals

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30-Nov-17 An unprecedented number of Bangladeshis travel to India, Thailand and Singapore for medical treatment because of low confidence in local doctors, with 165,000 travelling to India for treatment in 2015 alone, accounting for 50% of India's medical tourism revenue. [image: Rajb Dhar / Dhaka Tribune]

Technology is transforming mental health treatment in South Asia

14-Sep-17 In developing countries mental health services can be de-prioritised. But e-solutions are being introduced such as Taskeen.org in Pakistan, virtually connecting licensed psychologists with mental health patients or India's HealthEminds, offering the services of trained and licensed counselors online. [image: MHIN]

Health tourism is a boon to the economy in Malaysia

03-Aug-17 Health tourism is seen as an industry which boosts Malaysia's economy, with more than 900,000 medical tourists arriving in 2016 and most of them coming from Indonesia, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Vietnam, Middle Eastern countries, Australia, China and Japan. [image: Astro Awani]

Alibaba unit Ant Financial to buy 20% stake in Bangladesh payments firm bKash

VLCC to open 50 institutes in India; plans to go international

Bangladeshis flock to Indian, Thai hospitals

Technology is transforming mental health treatment in South Asia

Health tourism is a boon to the economy in Malaysia

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