Asia Now

We’ve been looking into the restrictions on business travel to East Asia from the UK for our own team. We thought it would be useful information to share – so we’ve turned it into a simple infographic.

We’ve just attended our fourth RISC-V summit in China on behalf of our western semiconductor clients – and it’s been by far the largest and most impressive. It reflects China’s booming RISC-V ecosystem and underlines the huge and timely opportunity for international firms with the right technologies to enter the market and succeed.

Ruslan Tursunov and Sohee Yoon from our Medtech & Life Sciences team in Seoul have just been to Bio Korea 2021 - one of South Korea's busiest pharmaceutical shows.

This year - the 10th anniversary of Japan’s 2011 earthquake and tsunami – has not only brought back vivid memories of working in our Tokyo office that day, and what happened in the months that followed.

Our Medtech & Life Sciences team has just been at CMEF 2021 in Shanghai - China's biggest medical equipment show.

The last year or so has been a rollercoaster ride for the global Invitro Diagnostic (IVD) market. In early 2020, business came to an abrupt halt as hospitals and clinics closed or reduced all non-essential treatments. However, the demand for SARS-CoV-2 testing rapidly changed the sector’s dynamics and, globally, we’ve seen increasing interest – especially in molecular diagnostic (MDx) technologies.