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Pharmaniaga Berhad In the same week that you announced a rise in your Q3 profits your Managing Director resigned. How have you managed to achieve this increase in profits despite management uncertainties and how have you maintained shareholder confidence in the company? Roshidah Abdullah (RA): In June 2010 our majority shareholders, UEM…

Chemical Company Malaysia (CCM) Would you start off by giving our readers some of CCM’s background? CCM started in Malaysia as part of the ICI group of companies in 1930. In the 1960s ICI localised and sold off a percentage of its shares to Permodalan Nasional Berhad (PNB). In 1995 there was a management…

National Taiwan University Hospital Could you start with an overview of the hospital’s capabilities and areas of focus in 2010? NTUH is a 2500 bed medical center and JCI accredited. We are a Centre of Excellence for clinical trials and clinical research in Asia Pacific. We ranked first in Taiwan and fifth in institutional…

Morris Enterprise How would you describe Morris Enterprise to our readers? Morris Enterprise is a distributor of pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals and cosmoceuticals. The company has a pharmaceutical division in marketing, a division in healthcare and one in cosmetics. Morris’ total employee force is 66 people, with rep offices in Japan and France. Their…

Golden Biotechnology In 2002, when you established Golden Biotech, what was your vision for the company? There has always been a focus on creating drugs to cure cancer: there are many good treatments already in the market for those suffering from, for example, prostate and breast cancer. Although there are good treatments…

Eli Lilly Taiwan Traditionally and historically, Lilly is very strong in the Asian region. The company has placed a great deal of emphasis on the region for many years. How does Taiwan fit into that Asian context for Lilly? What’s exciting in Taiwan for Lilly right now? In an Asian context, Taiwan has…

Taiwan Department of Health Paul Krugman, who won the 2006 Nobel Prize in economics, said that the Taiwanese health care system is the best in the world. Despite this, you are now drafting a second generation of legislation, so what are the issues that need to be addressed in this legislation? In any program…

Sandoz Philippines Corporation Mr. Willis, you have a background as a management consultant in New Zealand and Australia. What was the situation of the generics market when you arrived in the Philippines and how has it evolved over the last three years? When I first arrived in the Philippines, the generics market was…

United Laboratories Unilab is one of the oldest pharmaceutical companies in the Philippines, having been established in 1945 as a small drugstore, and now is the leading company in the industry. What has been Unilab’s role in shaping the pharma industry? We have been the leading pharmaceutical company since 1950s. When Unilab…

Pharma Power Biotec Pharma Power Biotec was founded in 2002. What was the vision behind the creation of the company, and what did you want to achieve with the company when it was founded? There are many small to mid-size enterprises in Taiwan, and the biggest issues for them to overcome are always…

Department of Health (DOH) Universal Health Care for All Filipinos: Making this dream a Reality I assumed office as your secretary of health barely a month ago with this single order from the president: make the dream of universal healthcare for all Filipinos a reality. This shall be the standard by which my performance,…

Department of Health (DOH) The new Government took office on the 1st of July, but we would like to hear about your experience as Secretary of Health. You took office at a particular time (January 2010) when the industry was still dealing with the first round of the MDRP price reductions and while you…