Articles by Anuchit Nguyen

Thailand Regulator Orders 2 Non-Life Insurers to Stop Accepting New Clients

Thailand’s insurance regulator ordered Southeast Insurance Pcl and Thai Insurance Pcl to stop taking new clients and sell some assets after their capital fell below the legally required levels. The non-life units of Thai Group Holdings must boost their balance …

Thai Insurer’s Coronavirus Cover Draws ‘Overwhelming’ Demand

The founder of one of the world’s best-performing insurance firms this year never imagined its policies to cover illness from the coronavirus would draw “overwhelming” demand when it began selling them well before the pathogen spread across Thailand and the …

Thai Insurer Offers First Coronavirus Insurance Policy

The world’s best-performing insurance firm has seized on the latest health concern to offer Thailand’s first policy to cover the novel coronavirus. TQM Corp., with partner Bangkok Insurance Pcl, this week introduced a policy that costs 299 baht ($9.62) and …

Thailand Intensifies Efforts to Stop ‘Pig Ebola’ from Crossing Border

Thailand, one of Asia’s top pork producers, is intensifying efforts to hold off a lethal pig virus that’s causing havoc as it spreads across the region. African swine fever — a disease that kills nearly all the pigs it infects …

Tropical Storm Pabuk Weakens After Battering South Thailand

Thailand’s most powerful tropical storm in decades has weakened after strong wind and flash floods disrupted oil production and flights, leaving thousands of tourists stranded near the nation’s southern beaches. Wind from tropical storm Pabuk slowed to 55 kilometers per …