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.
Slower growth in China and India drives the easing, while Singapore and Indonesia head the other way at 14.7% and 17.3%, adding to pressure on health insurance affordability.
Traditional Korean medicine hospitals emerged as a key focus for regulators after the number of improper claims detected surpassed the full-year 2025 total within nine months.
As industry bodies warn that surging motor insurance fraud could result in higher premiums, consumer advocates are demanding stronger scrutiny of claims data.
