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Scottish retailers must ensure their policies and procedures comply with new restrictions on the promotion and placement of less healthy food and drink products now in force, experts are urging.

Pharmaceutical companies are finding new therapeutic uses for medicines that support weight-loss, including for treating cancer and a wide range of other diseases, and seeking to protect their right to commercialise that research, according to Pinsent Masons research.

A boy and his sister lost their lives in a road accident after they wanted to attend classes despite their school being closed due to the haze in Malaysia’s Johor state.
Their elder brother, who took them on his motorcycle to check out the school for themselves, was killed as well.
The three siblings – Nordaniel Aiman Norlizan, 18, Nordaniel Fikri Norlizan, 11, and Puteri Naufa Raisha Norlizan, eight – were found by their grandfather, lying motionless at the scene of the accident in…

Australia’s privacy regulator has launched a new probe into the company behind a smart glasses companion app, which could have ramifications for businesses offering comparable technologies and retailers selling such products, according to a privacy expert at Pinsent Masons.

Educational and cultural exchanges have become a new casualty of rising tensions between the Philippines and China. About 150 Chinese teachers have left the Philippines months after Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jnr renewed warnings that such people-to-people ties could pose security concerns. Families of volunteer instructors have expressed safety concerns.
Beyond disrupting classes and potentially harming tourism in the Philippines, this could further narrow interaction between the two…

Elon Musk accused unnamed rivals of blocking SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband network in India, an apparent swipe at billionaires Mukesh Ambani and Sunil Bharti Mittal.
SpaceX has been awaiting approval from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to offer Starlink service in India, where companies controlled by Ambani’s Reliance Industries and Mittal’s Bharti Airtel have spent years building formidable positions in telecoms.
“Unfortunately, we are being blocked by certain oligarchs in…

The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland has provided clarity on how public bodies should apply climate duties when approving carbon-intensive projects, experts have said.

Singapore’s air pollution worsened to the highest in the world as haze from Indonesia wildfires blankets the region days before the city state’s annual Formula One weekend.
Air quality levels in Singapore were in the “very unhealthy” range as of Wednesday afternoon, according to data from IQAir. Nearby Kuala Lumpur, which was earlier in the top spot, ranked as the second-most polluted city globally.
In the Malaysian state of Johor, about 140km (87 miles) northwest of Singapore, some 200 schools,…

The US military in Okinawa will impose a curfew from midnight to 5am for a month starting Friday following the arrest of a marine on suspicion of robbing and murdering a local woman, its regional coordinator said on Tuesday.
All US military personnel on Okinawa will also observe a 48-hour operational pause from noon on Wednesday, during which there will be “no off-base liberty, including a complete prohibition of alcohol consumption on or off base”, said Lieutenant General Benjamin Watson,…

Four Indonesian seamen who were kidnapped and held hostage by Somali pirates aboard an oil tanker for more than five months arrived back home on Tuesday.
The men were among 17 crew rescued a week ago when maritime police from the semi-autonomous region of Puntland in northern Somalia stormed the Palau-flagged MT Honour 25 tanker that was hijacked in April.
Before the vessel could be recaptured, the pirates had already killed five crew members – three Pakistanis, an Indian and a Myanmar national…