The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published guidance on its new approach to handling applications from businesses seeking leniency from prosecutions and fines for cartel activity.
Indonesia steps up internet obscenity purge following threat to block WhatsApp
Indonesia said on Tuesday it will summon executives of messaging services and search engines, including Google, to demand they remove obscene content, but dropped a threat to block WhatsApp Messenger after a certain image format was taken off the service.
The internet is already partly censored in Indonesia, but the latest steps mark an escalation against a background of growing conservatism in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation.
“We will call all providers, including…
Australian politicians told they need to prove citizenship
Australian politicians will have to prove they are not foreign citizens under plans proposed on Monday as the conservative government grapples with a constitutional crisis that has cost it a majority in parliament.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced a set of measures making it compulsory for MPs formally to declare they are not dual citizens and provide evidence to support it.
“Every member of the [lower] house and every member of the Senate has a personal obligation to ensure that…
Influential executive pay guidance for investors updated for 2018
The Investment Association (IA) has updated its influential ‘Principles of Remuneration’ to provide guidance to remuneration committees on executive pay issues ahead of the 2018 AGM season.
Supersized scandal: ‘Fat Leonard’ probe widens to ensnare more than 60 US navy admirals
The “Fat Leonard” corruption investigation has expanded to include more than 60 admirals and hundreds of other US navy officers under scrutiny for their contacts with a defence contractor in Asia who systematically bribed sailors with sex, alcohol and other temptations, according to the navy.
Most of the admirals are suspected of attending extravagant feasts at Asia’s best restaurants paid for by Leonard Glenn Francis, a Singapore-based maritime tycoon who made an illicit…
‘No dictator should underestimate US’: Trump talks tough before golf and steak with Prime Minister Abe in Japan
US President Donald Trump on Sunday issued a stern warning that “no dictator” should underestimate the United States as he kicked off an Asian tour dominated by the North Korea nuclear crisis.
Speaking to cheering military personnel at Yokota Air Base just west of Tokyo minutes after landing, Trump donned a bomber jacket and said “no one, no dictator, no regime and no nation should underestimate … American resolve”.
“Every once in a while in the past, they…
Typhoon Damrey batters Vietnam, flooding towns and leaving 27 people dead
At least 27 people have died and nearly two dozen are missing after Typhoon Damrey barrelled into Vietnam, authorities said on Sunday, damaging tens of thousands of homes and submerging motorways days before the country welcomes world leaders to the APEC summit.
The storm, which made landfall on Saturday, is the worst in decades to strike the country’s southern coastal region, an area normally spared the typhoons that typically hit further north.
More than 40,000 homes were damaged as…
South Korea irritated by Trump’s longer stay in Japan
When he arrives in Tokyo on Sunday, US President Donald Trump will have lunch with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe before the pair play nine holes at a fancy golf course that only recently allowed women to become full members. Then they will enjoy a private steak dinner – Trump’s favourite.
When the US president gets to Seoul on Tuesday, however, it is a different story. Although it is a state visit, he will only have time for a cup of tea with President Moon Jae-in in his office before…
How Donald Trump’s example has emboldened Asia’s strongmen leaders – and delivered a setback to democracy
Liberal Cambodians have never had it easy, but this year has robbed many of hope.
Prime Minister Hun Sen, in power since the 1980s, has jailed an opposition leader, expelled NGO workers and closed an independent newspaper. “Descent Into Outright Dictatorship,” screamed a headline on its final front page.
For years, these Cambodians have looked to the US as an example of the virtues of democracy, and – as a major source of aid – a check on their own government’s…
All tokens and cryptocurrencies are securities in New Zealand, regulator confirms
Businesses that issue tokens and cryptocurrencies in return for investment in New Zealand will be considered to be issuing securities, the country’s Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has said.