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Discount or Validation? Western Pharma’s Appetite for Chinese Assets

There is a number that has stopped being a niche statistic for Asia-watchers and started reshaping where the global drug industry shops. The average upfron...

July 24, 2026 | Analysis

The Bioreactors Are Ours. The Consumables Are Not.

A new biologics plant is one of the easier things in medicine to photograph. The bioreactors are large and gleaming, the capacity figures are big and round...

July 22, 2026 | Analysis

Two Chairs, 11,000 Kilometres Apart: The Human Cost of Asia’s Plasma Dependence

REPORTAGE / PLASMA SUPPLY THE CHAIR The chair reclines. That is the first thing you notice, walking into a plasma centre in a strip mall on...

July 17, 2026 | Analysis

China Plus One: Slogan, Strategy, or Capacity APAC Does Not Have?

THE RESHUFFLE · ANALYSIS On a Monday in June 2026, one line in the United States Federal Register did what two year...

July 16, 2026 | Analysis

The Technology Is Ready. Are APAC’s Regulators?

In a process-development suite in Singapore, or Hyderabad, or Songdo, a perfusion bioreactor can now run for weeks, its output feeding straight into a conn...

July 15, 2026 | Regulatory

Can APAC Biomanufacturing Decarbonise Without Pricing Itself Out?

Scope 3 clauses, single-use plastic, water and energy intensity: the “green premium” has become the defining question for the CDMOs that built ...

July 14, 2026 | Analysis

The Algorithm on the GMP Floor: AI Promises a Smarter Plant. Regulators Demand the Audit Trail.

A control room that thinks it knows what happens next Walk the mezzanine above a modern biologics suite in Singapore, Songdo or Hyderabad and the change i...

July 13, 2026 | Analysis

APAC's Peptide-Capacity Gamble

For most of pharmaceutical history, the hard part was finding a molecule that worked. The GLP-1 class inverted that logic. The science arrived first &mdash...

July 09, 2026 | Analysis

After the Rush: APAC's mRNA and Vaccine Capacity Hangover

In June 2022, South Korea had something it had wanted for two years: a COVID-19 vaccine of its own. SKYCovione, developed by SK bioscience with the U...

July 08, 2026 | Analysis

The Biosimilar Race: Factory to the World — or Stuck in the Copycat Economy?

In Songdo and Bengaluru, the numbers finally look like the ones the region was promised a decade ago. Celltrion closed 2025 with revenue above ₩4 trillio...

July 07, 2026 | Analysis

Vectors, Plasmids and the CGT Trap: APAC's Cell and Gene Therapy Ambitions Face an Upstream Bottleneck

THE GATE The choke point nobody puts on the slide Somewhere in the region this quarter, a cell-and-gene developer has everything the pitch deck promised....

July 03, 2026 | Analysis

Can APAC Build Radioligand Therapy Before the Atoms Decay?

Every dose of radioligand therapy is a countdown. The moment a batch of lutetium-177 leaves the reactor, it begins to fade — roughly half its therape...

July 02, 2026 | Analysis

The Great Biopharma Reset: 50 Developments That Changed Everything in H1 2026

For three years the biotechnology industry waited for a turn. The first half of 2026 delivered one — and then several more in quick succession. In si...

June 30, 2026 | Analysis

Beyond the Trial: Can Real-World Evidence Earn Regulatory Trust in APAC?

A new medicine arrives at a regulator's desk with two kinds of proof attached. The first is the familiar kind: a randomised controlled trial, blinded, cont...

June 30, 2026 | Analysis

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