04-Sep-15 Korean medical companies will speed up their entry into China, having secured a bridgehead into the telemedicine market by inking agreements with Chinese partners. Other agreements will allow Korea to export more drugs and biotech to China. These developments will help Korea become one of the top seven healthcare powers within five years. [image: Business Korea]

03-Sep-15 Indian eHealth app firm Practo has announced its entry into the Indonesian markets. In Indonesia, Practo will be providing consumers the option of searching for doctors through a database of over 4,200 doctors, and will cover over 60 per cent of the clinics in Jakarta. [image: YourStory]

02-Sep-15 Apollo Hospitals, India’s largest provider of medical treatment, announced that it aims to open an office in Cambodia to train local doctors and would encourage more Cambodians to travel to its facilities in India for complicated medical procedures. The company is looking to set up an office in the capital, and eventually develop telemedicine facilities in Cambodia. [image: Money Control]

22-Sep-15 Singapore's Rowsley Ltd will convert its Iskandar project in Malaysia into a healthcare hub instead of a mixed-use township, the company said on Tuesday, amid a rising supply of homes in the special economic zone. [image: Free Malaysia Today]

Aug-15 Most medical device suppliers are primarily focussed on the metro and tier I markets in India. Suppliers are finding that markets in semi-urban and rural areas behave quite differently. The hospitals in tier II and III cities are smaller and operate at lower price points than those in large cities. Their remote locations also throw up logistical challenges. [image: India Today]