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Macroscope | From climate change to health, global problems need investors to step up

People love to hate governments, and they loathe having to pay taxes. However, from now on, we’ll have to embrace…

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I went to Valika hospital to find out if children got HIV there

The information surfaced on a reporter WhatsApp group: Eight small children had been infected with HIV supposedly at Kulsum Bai…

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Hong Kong life insurance sales hit record US$22.3 billion on high-net-worth demand

Life insurance sales in Hong Kong rose 50 per cent in the first half of this year to a fresh…

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China has 60 drugs under trial to rival Ozempic in US$150 billion weight-loss market

When Hong Kong office worker W.K. Chan began putting on weight as a teenager, her doctor said it was due…

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China expands health insurance coverage with 91 new drugs, breakthrough treatments

China has added dozens of new drugs to its health insurance reimbursement list, signalling support for innovative treatments while keeping…

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Google DeepMind unveils protein design system

Google DeepMind has unveiled an AI system called AlphaProteo that can design novel proteins that successfully bind to target molecules,…

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Li Ka-shing’s HutchMed sets up first drugs research facility in Hong Kong

HutchMed aims to establish a bigger presence in the city when the first wet laboratories at the much larger Hong…

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Chinese biotech sector is blowing hot as M&A and IPO deals surge amid Covid-19 pandemic

China’s biotechnology merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions have almost doubled this year, with interest perking up among investors amid a…

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Yifan Pharma’s unit, eyeing US$5.5 billion post-chemotherapy treatment market dominated by Amgen, considers IPO in 2021

Evive Biotech, a unit of Shenzhen-listed Yifan Pharmaceutical, aims to break the dominance of American drugs developer Amgen in the…

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China’s largest e-cigarette brand Relx to study health effects of vaping amid regulatory crackdowns

The company unveiled a new bioscience laboratory on Thursday to study the health effects of vaping. The lab in Shenzhen…

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