Pharma & Biotech

The latest Guidelines raise the compliance bar for online prescription drug sales, with stricter oversight for pharmacies and platforms.

New ethics guidelines clarify consent, privacy, security, and governance expectations for human genetic data research in China.

New Hainan MPA guidance clarifies how Lecheng real-world evidence can support imported product registration, labeling updates, and post-approval activities

The 2025 Drug Evaluation Report provides insights into key application trends, review activities, and developments across China's pharmaceutical sector.

The reformed framework overhauls policy to strengthen innovation while tightening evidence, supply, and compliance requirements.

The framework establishes filing rules, protection scope, and transitional requirements affecting innovative and overseas-originator drug applications in China.

Malaysia’s latest regulatory updates expand electronic labelling for pharmaceuticals and simplify medical device label requirements for foreign manufacturers.

The updated technical guideline expands regulatory expectations for manufacturing, impurity control, advanced analytics, stability studies, and biosimilar comparability.

China’s NMPA and six government agencies issued new measures that strengthen compliance requirements, anti-bribery controls, and oversight of pharmaceutical promotion activities.

The new framework introduces a distinct regulatory pathway for emerging therapies, with major implications for clinical development and market strategy.

China’s SAMR has released draft advertising review measures that would increase oversight of livestreaming and digital marketing while streamlining certain compliance requirements for regulated products.

New guidance highlights the need for earlier China development planning whenrelying on global trials, foreign clinical data, or multinational development strategies