Month: September 2023

Indonesia plans to give China the project to extend the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway line to Surabaya.

Chinese electric vehicle builders hit a roadblock after the European Commission launched an anti-subsidy investigation last week, which is likely to affect annual exports of more than 2 million battery-powered vehicles projected to be sold in the continent by 2030.

The protest comes amid public outrage over what has been described as a betrayal of PM Anwar Ibrahim’s reform promises and anti-corruption pledge.

Read on for more about the suspects and their millions in seized assets, the effect of the scandal on Singapore’s reputation and what the government has to say about it all.

Seven of the 10 Chinese suspects arrested in Singapore’s massive money-laundering probe held foreign passports from the likes of Cambodia and Vanuatu, where citizenship can be bought for as little as US$130,000.

TikTok has been issued with a fine of €345 million by Ireland’s data protection authority over historical shortcomings identified in relation to children’s privacy.

The Irish competition regulator warned six companies of their obligations under competition law but conducted no dawn raids in 2022. Its focus appears to have been on consumer law enforcement, merger control and the enactment of new competition laws which will come into force in 2023.

The UK’s reputation as a “trailblazer” in the development of self-driving vehicles is at risk unless new laws are passed as a matter of urgency to better support their testing and commercialisation, a committee of MPs has said.

Strategic competitors, including China, could ‘bypass the need for a physical attack and strike directly at the psychological’, cautioned Defence Forces chief Angus Campbell.

The Hydromover, developed by the Goal Zero consortium, has a capacity to carry 25 tons of cargo and a battery that can be swapped in minutes when depleted.