by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Healthcare, Biotech & Life Sciences, Singapore Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRSingapore built a substantial medical tourism business serving patients from Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Myanmar and beyond, drawn by specialist expertise and clinical outcomes. Regional competition, rising costs and improving healthcare in source...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Healthcare, Biotech & Life Sciences, Singapore Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRSingapore funds healthcare through a layered system combining compulsory medical savings accounts, universal catastrophic insurance, a safety net endowment for those who cannot pay, and heavily subsidised public hospital care with subsidies scaled by ward...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Healthcare, Biotech & Life Sciences, Singapore Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRSingapore launched a biomedical sciences initiative in 2000, building the Biopolis research campus and recruiting international scientists to create a life sciences sector from almost nothing. Two decades later the manufacturing side is a clear success,...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Healthcare, Biotech & Life Sciences, Singapore Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRParkway Holdings built Singapore’s leading private hospital network around Mount Elizabeth and Gleneagles, then became the object of a 2010 bidding war between an Indian hospital group and Malaysia’s sovereign fund. The Malaysian fund won, and...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Consumer, Retail & Hospitality, Singapore Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRSingapore’s tourism and retail sectors recovered strongly after border reopening, but the composition changed: visitors spend differently, Orchard Road faces structural competition from suburban malls and e-commerce, and the retail property market...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Consumer, Retail & Hospitality, Singapore Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRSingapore’s hawker centres were built from the 1970s to relocate street food vendors into regulated premises, and became a national institution recognised by UNESCO in 2020. The model faces a succession problem: hawkers are ageing, the work is hard,...
