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06-Jul-17 Tony Fernandes, founder of AirAsia, is planning the launch of a new “affordable healthcare” business called Tune Care in Malaysia, later expanding throughout ASEAN. It will have its own hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, diagnostics centers and wellness programmes. [image: Investvine]

28-Jun-17 Columbia Asia will invest over INR400 crore (USD62 mn) in two new hospitals in India by 2019 as it looks to expand. The chain currently has 11 multi-speciality hospitals in India with over 1,000 beds. [image: ET Healthworld]

28-Jun-17 When the news spread that the cost of seeing a doctor would quintuple, many Beijing residents rushed to stock up on prescriptions. Along with reforms abolishing drug markups, the new fee aims to reduce over-prescription and overcrowding at hospitals. [image: Sixth Tone]

27-Jun-17 Only 14% of the pharmaceutical and healthcare companies in India use digital platforms to address customers' queries. Apollo Diagnostics takes the top spot, followed by GE Healthcare and Pfizer. Amongst hospitals, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital leads. [image: ET Healthworld]

16-Jun-17 25 Japanese companies including Eisai, Takeda and Kitahara International Hospital plan to develop business in emerging economies, leveraging a government partnership to take on Western competitors. The group aims to kick off in Vietnam and Thailand in fiscal 2019. [image: Nikkei Asian Review]