The Asia Life and Health Insurance Premium Market is expected to grow through the next few years as illustrated in the interactive chart below.
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No causalities or damages have been reported in the hours since the earthquake interrupted life across Asia, The New York Times reports.
An engineer by training, American by citizenship, New Yorker by birth and attitude, he has lived much of his life in Asia and Europe.
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Nathan Parnaby, chief executive of Asia and Emerging Markets for Standard Life, said the company's long-term vision in the Middle East was to build a leading retail savings and investments business.
Edinburgh-based Standard Life's current Asia and Emerging Markets operations include its retail investments business, which operates out of Hong Kong and Singapore, as well as its life and asset management joint venture businesses in China and India.
Mr. Kurlantzick ably chronicles Thompson's time in Southeast Asia but unfortunately attempts to make his life something it was not: a metaphor for what he thinks went wrong with U.S. policy in Southeast Asia.
He said Art Asia made "a huge contribution to cultural life in Southampton".
When he took over in 1967, AIG was a minor American property-and-casualty insurer with a life-insurance business based in Asia.
This story appears in the November 5, 2012 issue of Forbes Asia as a sidebar to Selling a Better Life.
The good news is that the troubled economies of Asia and Latin America are showing signs of life: Asian dealers have begun restocking Cat products, and private-sector construction is growing again in Brazil.
She and her late husband, Murray Roman, built a successful marketing business, but when the couple decided they wanted more out of life, they moved to Southeast Asia for year to volunteer with UNICEF.
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Through Mina, a woman living in a rural village in Asia, the important role of literacy in daily life is stressed.
The Museum of Natural History's director, Henry Fairfield Osborn, believed northeastern Asia had been the Garden of Eden for mammalian life, and Andrews set out to prove it.
But despite this - and the fact that Columbus spent his whole life believing he had in fact landed in Asia - he ranks as a great explorer for his bravery in sailing into the unknown.
Moreover, public attitudes and expectations are lagging far behind changes in women's lives in Asia, making it even harder to strike a balance between life and work.
Mr. Hong: It's one of the most dynamic and convenient cities to work and live in because it's good for both family life and work life, and is in the middle of the Asia region, right next door to China and within a four-hour flight to most of the region's capital cities.
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When I first moved to Asia in the 1990s, I was amazed by how much social life revolved around luxury hotels.
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Average life expectancy is 79 years, a longevity rate topped in Asia only by Japan.
At the top of the list: expanding Allianz's life insurance operations and building its modest presences in America and Asia.
Women wishing to experience more of local life than just sightseeing can check out the tours organized by Asia Getaway ( www.asiagetaway.com), a California-based cultural-tour operator that offers travelers opportunities like learning cooking at a Thai farmhouse.
In spite of these threats and the country's volatile political life, Thailand has remained one of the strongest performing economies in Southeast Asia.
Investors in Asia balked at the heavy issuance of corporate debt this week, sending bonds issued by life insurer AIA Group down on their first day of trading.
Through the end of his life he repeatedly visited Algeria, making additional forays to destinations as far flung as Southeast Asia, Russia and Uruguay, for which he composed a national anthem.
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