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Wednesday, August 12, 2026
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Reih Angeles Deputy News Editor
Reih Angeles is Deputy News Editor at (Re)in Asia, steering the desk's breaking coverage of Asia Pacific insurance and reinsurance. Areas of specialty include insurer and life results, reinsurance and catastrophe losses, cyber, and regulatory change across India, Korea, China and Hong Kong.
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Markel appoints Abbas Choker as APAC CFO
July 29 2026
He joins from AIG, where he most recently served as regional head of financial planning and analysis, APAC.
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Consilium receives Singapore broking licence from MAS
July 29 2026
The broker has also appointed Ben Compton as associate partner in the Singapore team.
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Japan issues tsunami warning after 7.1 quake; twin tremors hit western China
July 28 2026
Powerful tremors struck Japan's Kumamoto prefecture, while twin earthquakes measuring 5.7 and 5.8 hit China's Qinghai province.
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Softlogic Life completes US$1.9m acquisition of Bangladesh insurer
July 28 2026
The Sri Lankan life insurer finalised its purchase of a 60% stake in Diamond Life Insurance.
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MSIG Hong Kong claims settlement ratio improves to 94.7% in 2025
July 28 2026
Employees' compensation claims settled at 99.87% as the insurer's overall ratio extended a climb that started at 91.1% in 2020.
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Cambodia's regulator to serve insurers online from January 2027, weighs data centre
July 28 2026
Measures agreed at the 24 July regulator-CEO forum also cover commissions paid to intermediaries and tighter reporting by insurers.
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Willis warns data centres against overbuying insurance as capacity reaches US$15bn
July 28 2026
Risk quantification and resilience investment can help operators align coverage with actual exposures, the broker said.
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Vietnam non-life insurers rebound as digital channels and commercial demand lift growth: AM Best
July 28 2026
Health and personal accident lines led premium expansion in 2025, helped by bancassurance partnerships and embedded insurance.
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Typhoon Noul drives Shenzhen losses, Guangdong catastrophe prepayments
July 27 2026
In Shenzhen alone, insurers received 1,212 claims worth CNY18.37m (US$2.71m).
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South Korean motor insurers post first H1 loss since 2020 – Reports
July 27 2026
Claims leakage from minor-injury treatment and higher repair costs are adding pressure ahead of a seasonally weaker second half.
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