Businesses could be forced to hand over information to the UK’s data protection watchdog within 24 hours under new proposed new data protection laws.
Leaders of South Korea, Japan, China to meet and discuss North Korea
Leaders of South Korea, Japan and China will meet next week for a summit meeting expected to focus on North Korea’s nuclear programme and other regional issues.
The three Asian countries have been holding regular trilateral summits since late 2008. Next week’s session, the seventh, comes amid a flurry of high-profile diplomatic meetings aimed at ridding North Korea of its nuclear weapons.
Last week, the leaders of North and South Korea met at a border village and agreed on a number…
Myanmar urged by UN Security Council to hold ‘proper’ probe into alleged atrocities against Rohingya
Myanmar must hold a “proper investigation” into alleged atrocities against the Muslim Rohingya, a UN Security Council envoy said on Tuesday at the end of the highest-level diplomatic visit to the conflict area.
Refugees and rights groups say Myanmar’s army and vigilantes systematically raped and murdered civilians and torched villages during “clearance operations” in Rakhine state ostensibly targeting Rohingya militants.
That campaign launched last August in the…