Commercial landlords and tenants are not required to specify the actual date of grant of the lease when ‘contracting out’ of the security of tenure provisions in the 1954 Landlord and Tenant Act (1954 Act), the Court of Appeal has confirmed.
Azmin Ali, Malaysia’s power grab architect, under fire for ‘half-baked’ coronavirus lockdown
Tens of thousands of people on Thursday signed an online petition calling for the resignation of Malaysia’s International Trade and Industry Minister Azmin Ali as anger brewed over the large number of businesses granted permission to operate during an ongoing Covid-19 “total lockdown”.Critics said the waivers, some of which were handed to non-essential businesses, would severely compromise the impact of the June 1 to June 14 lockdown just as the health-care system was reaching breaking point.An…
Japan likely to defend Taiwan if Beijing makes moves, former US national security official Matt Pottinger says
Tokyo would step up militarily to defend Taiwan if Beijing moved to reunify the island with mainland China by force, former deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger said in a panel discussion on Tuesday with other top Trump administration officials.Pottinger, considered one of the key architects of the Trump administration’s hardline China policies, said Japan first suggested a quadrilateral alliance with the US, India and Australia – now known as the “Quad” – as a defence strategy…
Coronavirus: Rodrigo Duterte urges public to get vaccinated after Philippines misses targets; Vietnam resumes flights
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte appealed to the public on Wednesday to get vaccinated against Covid-19, after data showed the government was far behind its immunisation targets as it battles one of Asia’s worst and longest-running outbreaks.“I invite all our countrymen to be vaccinated at the earliest possible opportunity because this is the most, if not the only way, effective way, to defeat the Covid-19 pandemic,” Duterte said in a televised address.“Let us all keep in mind that the…
Emirate of Sharjah raises minimum wage for UAE nationals
The ruler of the emirate of Sharjah has increased the minimum wage for United Arab Emirate (UAE) nationals to AED 25,000 (US$6,800) from AED 17,500.
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Cambodian workers at NagaWorld casino vexed over lay-offs as Hong Kong-listed parent firm reports profits
When Reoun Sreyneang received notice she would be let go from her job tending hotel rooms for US$300 a month at Phnom Penh’s gold-tinted NagaWorld casino complex, she decided to accept the news without a fight.“I don’t believe I can win against the company that has millions of dollars in its pocket. They will always win,” said the hospitality worker.Still, she admitted she was shocked that NagaWorld, a subsidiary of Hong Kong-listed firm NagaCorp that has an exclusive licence to run a casino in…
Restructuring – a view from the Netherlands
Dutch lawyer Laurens de Graaf outlines the essential steps when restructuring a business in the Netherlands
As Malaysia begins ‘total lockdown’, disgraced Najib rises as complainer-in-chief
As the coronavirus situation deteriorates in Malaysia, brickbats are coming thick and fast for Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin – not just from the official opposition, but from ostensibly friendly forces as well.Former prime minister Najib Razak – voted out of office in 2018 and facing jail time for convictions linking him to the multibillion-dollar 1MDB financial scandal – has emerged as a complainer-in-chief of sorts against the current administration.A third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic…