Ex-PM Thaksin’s youngest daughter Paetongtarn, who wed in Hong Kong’s Rosewood Hotel in 2019, has made her political debut as Prayuth battles plunging popularity amid an economic crisis.
Climate and sustainability disclosure standards ‘will expose weak governance’
New global reporting standards have been proposed to boost transparency over businesses’ impact on the environmental and their efforts to reduce that impact.
Online marketplaces face new obligations in the Netherlands
Online marketplaces will have to disclose the “main parameters” that determine how they rank product offers in response to consumer search queries, under new laws finalised in the Netherlands.
Australian police recover bodies of British father and son killed in landslide
British family of five, holidaying in Australia, were hiking at Wentworth Falls on Monday afternoon when four of them were hit by falling rocks, killing two.
Ex-Goldman banker Roger Ng driven by ‘glory and greed’, jury told
The defendent was hoping to make partner by helping the firm arrange a series of lucrative deals, even as he sought millions in kickbacks, a prosecutor says.
Latest phase of UK government’s carbon capture drive ‘great to see’
A legal expert has welcomed the UK government’s announcement of which carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS) projects it will evaluate for the second phase of its cluster sequencing process.
South China Sea: Philippine presidential candidates call for tougher stance on Beijing
Presidential candidates in the Philippines want the country to take a tougher stance against Beijing over territorial disputes in the South China Sea. The Philippines must rally the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in establishing a code of conduct with China, leveraging on its 2016 victory at The Hague arbitration which rejected Beijing’s nine-dash line claim, Vice-President Leni Robredo said at the Commission on Election’s debate on Sunday. Former defence secretary Norberto…
Softbank’s exit from Indonesia’s new capital project sees it turn to Saudi Arabia, UAE and crowdfunding
Indonesia is turning to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as well as crowdfunding from its massive population, to develop its new capital city in Borneo after Japanese tech behemoth SoftBank Group pulled out of the US$34 billion project. Coordinating Minister of Maritime and Investment Affairs Luhut Pandjaitan, in revealing SoftBank’s exit, attributed it to “decline in their share price” and Saudi Arabia’s withdrawal of funds from the company’s venture capital arm Vision Fund 2…
Bridgerton’s celebration of ‘brown women’ beats Bollywood, say delighted South Asians
By bringing more colour to its female characters, Netflix’s Bridgerton has secured a head start on Bollywood. While India’s Hindi-language film industry dallies about casting a dark-skinned actress in a lead romantic role – Will audiences accept her? Exactly how dark should her skin be? Will she be seen as desirable? – the second season of the popular show has stolen a march by casting two actresses of South Asian descent in lead roles, and a third in a supporting role. For millions of women in…
Coronavirus: minister says Singapore won’t tighten curbs if cases go up again
Singapore will not need to tighten pandemic measures even if the number of Covid-19 cases starts to rise again, Finance Minister Lawrence Wong told The Straits Times. The easing of international travel restrictions will allow more workers to come into Singapore, with labour levels in the city state’s construction sector expected to reach “previous levels” by the middle of the year, the newspaper cited Wong as saying. Increased inflationary pressure should be alleviated by the additional labour,…