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Trải nghiệm tuyệt vời tại Việt Nam: Mua, sở hữu, lái và bảo hiểm xe máy để có những chuyến đi dễ dàng trong những cảnh quan tuyệt vời của đất nước

Sở hữu và đi xe máy ở Việt Nam nằm trong danh sách việc cần làm của người nước ngoài. Còn hiện nay, Việt Nam đã theo sau các nước phương Tây, bạn cần phải...

Vietnam ultimate experience: Motorbike Buying, owning, riding and Insuring for easy rides in the country fabulous landscapes

Enjoying ownership and riding a motorbike in Vietnam is on most Expat to-do-list. Nowadays, Vietnam has followed western countries, you need to do it by the rules.

You should al...

Is a Covid19 travel and health insurance mandatory? Get the approved ones

Travel Visitors for work Expatriation or Tourism, will need a travel insurance to cover the costs of Covid19 with a mimum limit of $25K, 50, 80 or $100,000. In effect, it is a medical insurance that is requested because a Covid...

Why do your insurance claims get more denied in Vietnam Asia than in your country?

In this article, you will understand why Expat medical insurance claims are 37% more denied in Vietnam than in your country. Most relate to the Asian culture and healthcare management practices.

IIA Blog - 9 Feb - 3

Healthcare pro...

HealthCare: what you should know about the pharmaceutical drug ‘business’

Medicine and Pharmacies are difficult to control as virtually everything is permitted: advertising, selling, traditional medicines, non-prescription, home storage. Prices can vary from 1-to-10 for the same medicines.

Prescrip...

Beware traveling in 2022: in this article, 3 new travel and health insurance requirements for visitors to any country should know related to Covid compulsory insurance for Vietnam, similar to the Thailand Pass.

Treatment in Covid vaccination + Tests + Sandbox/Quarantine + travel health insurance co...

Are you looking for a recommendation of the best hospitals and clinics in Hochiminh City Vietnam? Here's an insider view of the healthcare system and practices. So many expats coming into a new Asian country, like Vietnam or Indonesia, will turn to a Facebook group of expats and ask for a hospi...

With Vietnam poor healthcare evacuation is essential

The first thing any expatriate should do is to pay a visit to a Vietnamese hospital, visit the best one like Cho Ray or Bach Mai, then you will understand you do not want to end up in a Vietnamese hospital.

Vietnam Public healthcare

Expats who li...

From a health perspective, Vietnam is among the most vulnerable countries to the Covid pandemic. Most medical equipment, biological products, vaccines, medicines... have to be imported because they are not being produced domestically. The purchase of vaccines is slow due to the acceptance of the man...

Many countries around the world are making safe travel a priority in the coming year. In Vietnam, the tourism industry is expected to rebuild with strong recovery plans. Travel insurance is recommended as mandatory for all travelers. It helps cover the expenses of examination, treatment, hospitalisa...

Protecting yourself and others from Covid-19 includes staying home if you are sick, keeping track of where you have been, wearing a face covering, maintaining good hygiene, getting vaccinated, maintaining good physical distance (according to Unite against Covid-19). Besides that, you should also hav...

It is surprising that expatriates rely on Facebook groups to get advice on insurance (medical, home and motorbike mainly)… and it extends to banking and financial products. 

Read on Facebook: “Dear FB friends, can you recommend the best health insurer… brokers and insurers, please do not bother ...

Living abroad for several years and faraway home is one of the challenges for Expats, especially considering buying health coverage as life safety protection.

There are options and policies to choose from, and knowing the right type depends on the situation.

By reading the reasons listed below, you ca...

IIA Blog 2 Nov 2

The impact of Covid is one of the biggest risks to various industries. Businesses are struggling with the frenzy of the Winter/ Christmas sale season as they are scaling or renewing their entire operations because of the Covid pandemic. 

Most businesses do not have insurance for t...

The questions you need to ask your insurer

Here are the right questions to ask your insurer and get the answers in writing or in the terms and conditions (what you usually call the treacherous fine prints).

For a few hundred dollars per year, you can have peace-of-mind pursuing your professi...

Donald Rumsfeld (politician and businessman), the two-time former Defense Secretary once referred to “unknown known”: the things that you think you know but it turns out you did not know.

“As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; tha...

So, something bad happened on your trip. Maybe it was a lost bag, a canceled flight, a long delay or a medical emergency. 

Luckily, you bought travel insurance that can cover travel mishaps like these. But in order to get reimbursed quickly, you need to file a claim — and you need to do it the r...

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This bathes deep within the realm of obvious but wear a helmet. As Vietnam is still a developing nation, road etiquette is dissimilar to what you are accustomed to back home. Life on the road is a little more dog-eat-dog here, and you do need to push for position. That doesn't mean you need to be ov...

Accordingly, the social, economic, and health impacts of the pandemic are creating a rising demand for medical, life, and home insurance policies as more people look to protect themselves and their families from the current challenges to their lives and livelihoods. 

Demographic changes, rise in...

Many residents in Ho Chi Minh City are rushing to purchase certificates of motor vehicle insurance as traffic police officers are waging an aggressive month-long campaign to inspect road users.

Under the campaign, which lasts until June 14, road users in the southern metropolis can be pulled over by ...