US pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) brings good news to Singapore, beyond the Ribena and Panadol (yes, they are the ones bringing you your familiar consumer health care products, vaccines and prescription medicine).
On 26 January 2008, during Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s visit to its Jurong plant, GSK announced that it will invest another $100 million [...]

A key component of Singapore’s manufacturing sector is Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, as many pharmaceutical companies such as GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Pfizer and Schering-Plough set-up facilities here. These are the rewards of the Singapore government’s 17 years of hard work to attract such big names to Singapore.

In recent years, the manufacturing of drugs has shifted from using the [...]