Month: January 2021

There is potential for differences to emerge between how the UK and EU regulates e-commerce and digital services in light of the new trade agreement reached by the UK government and EU27 countries.

Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest known cave painting: a life-size picture of a wild pig that was made at least 45,500 years ago in Indonesia.The finding described in the journal Science Advances on Wednesday provides the earliest evidence of human settlement of the region.Co-author Maxime Aubert of Australia’s Griffith University said it was found on the island of Sulawesi in 2017 by doctoral student Basran Burhan, as part of surveys the team was carrying out with Indonesian…

Malaysia’s opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Thursday said he would submit an appeal to the king to end a state of emergency imposed to fight the coronavirus, which he described as a move by the prime minister to cling to power.Malaysia’s King Al-Sultan Abdullah on Tuesday declared a national state of emergency to curb the spread of the virus and suspended parliament, which the opposition said was Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s ploy to retain control amid a power struggle.In a letter sent…

Intellectual property (IP) rights holders should use the finalisation of the new EU-UK trade agreement as a spur to review whether their IP protection is in line with their business strategy even though the agreement changes little in practice in the short term in relation to their rights.

As President Joko Widodo launched Indonesia’s Covid-19 vaccination drive on Wednesday, the televised images beamed into homes across the nation were rich in symbolism.Here was the president of the world’s fourth most populous nation quite literally opening his arms to China as he received a shot of the Sinovac Biotech vaccine his government had approved for emergency use just a couple of days earlier.This was the moment that the Southeast Asian country hit hardest by the novel coronavirus –…

A former speaker of the Philippines’ House of Representatives has sparked outrage on social media after announcing his intent to form a new political grouping named after world-famous South Korean boy band BTS.Alan Peter Cayetano, an ally of President Rodrigo Duterte who was ousted as speaker in October, said he would form the BTS sa Kongreso (BTS in Congress) bloc with six fellow lawmakers – Representatives Luis Raymund “LRay” Villafuerte Jnr, Dan Fernandez, Raneo Abu, Mike Defensor, Jose…

Businesses should be aware of the advertising standards that their marketing will be required to comply with. In the UK, different rules apply depending on the medium chosen for advertising.

Malaysia was on Tuesday rocked by the news the nation’s monarch had approved a state of national emergency to stem the spread of a third wave of coronavirus infections.The announcement came just a day after Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin had announced targeted lockdowns across the country to combat a surge of cases.For several weeks Malaysia has recorded daily cases in the four digits and its total caseload has now risen to nearly 140,000 infections and 555 deaths – depressing statistics for a…

Representatives from Boeing and the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will leave for Jakarta this week to assist an investigation into Saturday’s crash of a Sriwijaya Air passenger jet, which hurtled into the Java Sea with 62 people on board.The Indonesian government granted a waiver allowing the Boeing and NTSB officials to enter the country during its coronavirus-related travel ban, a person familiar with the matter said, asking not to be named.Indonesian investigators are still…

Ambitious plans to grow the use of renewable energy in South America, and link coronavirus economic recovery plans to ‘green’ projects, make the market an attractive proposition for international energy companies and investors.