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The European Commission is drawing up plans to provide greater information
to the public on medicines that will dilute the long-standing ban on pharmaceutical
companies' involvement in marketing prescription drugs to patients.
Second Board-bound Hovid Bhd is looking to expand its pharmaceutical
and phytonutrient business overseas and is targeting to achieve further growth
from Africa and later China and India, says its managing director David Ho.
The trend of medium-sized foreign pharmaceutical companies investing
in China, in addition to the world's drug majors, has been typified by recent
announcements from Denmark's Novo Nordisk, Genencor of the US and Dutch company
DSM.
Canada said on Friday it was "nowhere near" deciding how to clamp
down on Internet pharmacies that send cheap medicine to the United States, often
without Canadian doctors having seen the patients.