10-Dec-14 Korea’s National Pension Service is ramping up to focus on investments in overseas healthcare markets in 2015, in the interest of income source diversification. Major Korean corporations such as Samsung have already started investing in hospitals abroad, for example in Turkey. [image: Business Korea]

10-Dec-14 Mergers and acquisitions in China’s healthcare sector rose to a record USD11.3 billion in the first 11 months of 2014, up 13% from a year earlier. A combination of ageing population and increasing affluence is driving the deal-making, coinciding with sweeping reforms by Chinese government. [image: Feucht Blog]

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09-Dec-14 Increasing numbers of hospitals in Vietnam are being equipped with modern technology and German companies are at the forefront: Siemens has been providing imaging and laboratory diagnostics since 1993, B. Braun is raising its investment in Vietnam to USD270 million, and other German firms doing well in Vietnam include Boehringer Ingelheim, Draeger, Rudolf Lietz, Fresenius Kabi, Bayer Schering and Merck. [image: Vietnam Investment Review]

04-Dec-14 GE Healthcare Life Sciences is planning to open a Technology Laboratory in Turkey which will feature the company’s latest tools for drug discovery, protein science and bioprocessing research. Turkey plans to transform its domestic manufacturing of devices and pharmaceuticals, with plans for 60% of demand to be met locally. [image: GE Healthcare Life Sciences]

01-Dec-14 Saudi Arabia has introduced new rules that further liberalise the healthcare sector and open it up to investment. Foreigners will be permitted to run hospitals, and global healthcare companies will be able to invest in the country, which is expected to account for almost 60% of the GCC market by 2018. [image: Gulf Business]