Regulations cost the Australian insurance customers up to A$3.5bn ($2.3bn) each year and this has a major impact on productivity, according to a new report by the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA).
Thailand's need for home-based care is expected to soar to keep pace with its rapidly ageing population and according to a projection by the International Labour Organization (ILO), Thailand will need up to 250,000 additional paid care workers for long term care for its ageing population.
AIA has announced the extension of its association with Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and also becoming the club's global training partner from July 2027 through to June 2032.
South Asia and Southeast Asia contributed more than half of the global deaths attributed to high temperature. In 2021, South Asia recorded 209,537 deaths and Southeast Asia recorded 32,230 deaths due to high temperatures.
Malaysia's central bank Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) has announced that the design of the base medical and health insurance or takaful product, introduced as part of Budget 2026, is expected to be finalised by the end of 2025 with a planned launch in 2027 according to a news report on the web-portal https://www.thevibes.com/.
Philippines Congress is likely to consider a request from the government to double the crop insurance subsidy it pays to the country's farmers to PHP8bn in 2026 so that it covers up to 4.2m farmers. According to a news report on the news portal https://bilyonaryo.com most of these farmers are rice growers.
To reduce the strain on Brunei's public health system, employers are to provide minimum private health insurance for their foreign workers. This mandate is being implemented in two phases.
Indonesian legislators have called for online motorcycle taxi drivers to be included in the national health and employment insurance schemes (BPJS Kesehatan and BPJS Ketenagakerjaan).
Long term exposure to extreme heatwaves accelerates the body's ageing process according to a new study published in Nature Climate Change journal in August 2025.
In India the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council is likely to consider reducing or removing the 18% GST on life and health insurance premiums.