Month: April 2019

The leader of a popular new Thai political party that ran a strong third in last month’s elections met police on Saturday to hear criminal charges of sedition against him filed by the ruling military junta.Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit was greeted by a crowd of around 300-400 supporters chanting “Keep fighting, Thanathorn!” as he arrived at Pathumwan police station in Bangkok to answer a police summons on a complaint of sedition and assisting criminals filed by a junta officer. The charges…

Fraud stemming from ‘invoice hijacking’ is at a near epidemic level, but businesses can rely on the courts to support their efforts to recover stolen funds if they act fast in light of incidents, experts in civil fraud and asset recovery have said.

Ethical hackers took less than two hours to access “high value data” held by UK higher education providers in each of a series of cybersecurity exercises, it has been revealed.

Pension providers will be compelled to make savers’ data available to them through pension dashboards, the UK government has confirmed.

Six Japanese ministers will attend high-level economic talks in Beijing planned for mid-April, underscoring a recent improvement in relations between the two countries.It is a larger delegation than last year, when four members of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cabinet attended the so-called high-level economic dialogue in Tokyo.Foreign Minister Taro Kono, who will head the delegation, plans to meet his counterpart Wang Yi as well as Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, laying the groundwork for President…

The Maldives heads for a parliamentary election on Saturday with President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih seeking a majority for his party to investigate debts to China, which it fears could run as high as US$3 billion and risk sinking the economy.Since he unseated pro-China leader Abdulla Yameen in September, Solih’s Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), which has governed in a coalition with three other parties, has warned that a building boom has left huge debts to Chinese lenders.The Maldives, a…

An Italian company that makes bracelets has successfully enforced its trade mark rights against a rival business that sold individual links from those bracelets to go with links it made itself.

Social media executives could be jailed if they fail to remove extremist material from their platforms quickly, under controversial Australian laws adopted on Thursday, in the wake of the live-streamed mosque shootings in Christchurch.Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in favour of the laws, which make it illegal not to remove footage of “a terrorist act”, murder, torture, rape and kidnapping, and spell out that internet service, content and hosting providers will be held culpable.Platforms like…

The United States hopes to reach agreement for another aircraft carrier visit to Vietnam this year and for such port stops to become a regular feature of the increasingly close relationship between the former Vietnam war enemies, a senior US defence official said on Wednesday.The USS Carl Vinson stopped in Vietnam in March last year in the first such visit since the end of the Vietnam war in 1975, underscoring the growing strategic ties between the former foes at a time when China’s regional…

A recent ruling has highlighted how businesses might be said to be responsible for a repudiatory breach of contract through the indications they give in their words or conduct, an expert in the resolution of technology contract disputes has said.