11-Sep-17 Boston Scientific has launched operations at its Penang (Malaysia) facilities, the medical device company's first Asian manufacturing site. The plant is designed to produce both cardiovascular and endoscopy products, with plans to expand into urology products in 2018. [image: Boston  Scientific]

07-Sep-17 Malaysia's sovereign fund Khazanah Nasional Bhd plans to widen investment to Central Asia. "We can extend our healthcare business to [Central Asia]… We have also investments in hospitals in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and soon, in China." [image: Astro Awani]

01-Sep-17 The Malaysian healthcare tourism market is expected to generate MYR1.3 bn (USD305 mn) revenue and see annual growth of 23% in 2017, according to the Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council. By 2020 it is targeting annual growth of 30%. [image: Dudva / Wikiwand]

25-Aug-17 The CEO of Medical Departures, a company facilitating medical travel to Asia, says “the level of care and attention they enjoy is unlike anything they would receive at home,” and he doesn't expect medical tourism to Asia to slow. [image: Business In Asia]

14-Aug-17 Lieven Jacquemyn, International Development Director at GE Healthcare, believes more public-private partnerships (PPPs) in healthcare are possible and will help provide more and better healthcare to the 620 mn people living in Southeast Asia. [image: Governance Today]