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]

02-Aug-17 Following the recent expansion of Singapore's Raffles Hospital, Raffles Medical is beefing up its workforce with more specialist consultants and clinical staff, in order to grow the scope of clinical services. [image: Singapore Business Review]

01-Aug-17 Click2Clinic Healthcare India, a tech-based home health services company, is planning to expand to Vietnam and Thailand as it rolls out its services in India and Malaysia and closes on a deal to provide funding from institutional investors. [image: The Financial Express]

01-Aug-17 Thai hospitals expect to generate THB49 bn (USD1.5 bn) in 2017 from international medical travelers, an increase of 4%. A drop in visitors from the Middle East will be more than offset by visitors from Southeast Asia. [image: TTR Weekly]

25-Jul-17 Aetna announced it has acquired the Bupa Group’s Thai business, Bupa Thailand. “Thailand is an important market for us, with increasing local wealth driving greater adoption of health insurance," said Richard di Benedetto, President of Aetna International. [image: Bupa / YouTube]