Industry analysts are expecting the increase in merger and acquisition activity in Thailand's healthcare sector to continue. Thai healthcare providers are determined to integrate more with one another to give them a national competitive advantage over the large foreign multinationals now entering the market. Under the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) agreements, by 2015 many industries will be increasingly…

The cost of receiving medical treatment in China's upscale private healthcare facilities in Shanghai and Beijing is on an astronomic rise, only this time the regular suspects of medical inflation, old age and larger numbers of lifestyle illnesses may not be to blame. It seems that the limited number of high-end medical facilities has given them a corner on the market, which they have fully taken…

Fortis Healthcare, an Indian company, and Khazanah Nasional Berhad, the Malaysian government's investment holding arm are in the middle of a battle over control of Singaporean healthcare group, Parkway Holdings. Khazanah recently offered S$ 1.18 billion (US$ 835 million) through its subsidiary, Integrated Healthcare, to increase its stake in Parkway to 51.5%, thereby controlling the company.…