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Month: January 2024

Posted on January 25, 2024

Japan’s 8.5 million abandoned rural homes, or akiya, have become a ‘cheap’ option for foreigner owners

A push into the city and population decline are two reasons they sit empty, as well as the Japanese preference to newly built homes rather than pre-owned.

Posted on January 24, 2024

Filipino drag queen fights for freedom to express faith after ‘getting hate’ for dressing as Jesus, singing prayer

Amadeus Fernando Pagente has been charged with ‘immoral doctrines, obscene publications and exhibitions and indecent shows’ for dressing up as Jesus and singing a prayer in a Manila show.

Posted on January 24, 2024

FAQ/redundancy and insolvency – does TUPE apply?

Ed Goodwyn tells HRNews about employees’ redundancy rights in insolvency situations and the impact of TUPE

Posted on January 24, 2024

Chinese research ship turned down by Sri Lanka to make Maldives resupply call

Male’s foreign ministry said Xiang Yang Hong 3 will not conduct any ‘research’ and would stop only for a resupply call.

Posted on January 23, 2024

Chinese firms, anxious to avoid choppy geopolitical waters, chart a course for Vietnam

As geopolitical changes increase the cost and stress of doing business from home, Chinese companies are finding alternative locations for production, particularly in Southeast Asian countries like Vietnam.

Posted on January 23, 2024

Man may face death penalty for Japan anime studio arson that killed 36 people

Shinji Aoba has admitted he committed the 2019 attack at the Kyoto Animation studios, though his lawyers have entered a plea of not guilty due to mental illness.

Posted on January 22, 2024

ICO’s generative AI guide underlines data-scraping compliance risks

New guidance issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has highlighted hurdles AI developers will have to overcome to comply with UK data protection laws when scraping personal data from online sources to train their models, an expert has said.

Posted on January 22, 2024

Indonesia election 2024: Gibran resorts to ‘gotcha questions’, jargon in VP debate in bid to trip up rivals

Gibran Rakabuming quizzed fellow vice-presidential contenders on ‘difficult’ questions such as greenflation and lithium iron phosphate batteries.

Posted on January 22, 2024

France visit offers ‘margin of manoeuvre’ in Cambodia’s bid to ease reliance on China

A ‘counterbalancing’ approach could work for France as Cambodia will not be against ‘marginal diversification’ from its close ties with China, analysts say.

Posted on January 21, 2024

Indonesia election 2024: woman whose ‘words carry weight’ could determine winner of presidential polls

Khofifah Indar Parawansa, governor of East Java, is once again seen as instrumental to a presidential victory – just as she was to Joko Widodo ’s second term.

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