September 12, 2024
Thailand warned a new storm may cause more floods and landslides, while death toll from Typhoon Yagi and the monsoon rains continued to rise. More than 40 provinces were placed on alert for possible flash floods as a new tropical …
March 17, 2022
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 …
April 6, 2020
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 …
February 10, 2020
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 …
May 20, 2019
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 …
January 7, 2019
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 …