Month: December 2020

He is not the first reality television star to fall from grace and is unlikely to be the last, but when the young celebrity Islamic “preacher” Syed Shah Iqmal was charged with rape, unnatural sex and outraging the modesty of one of his female followers, it seemed like half of Malaysia had an opinion.Syed Shah Iqmal Syed Mohammad Shaiful, 25, more commonly known as Da’i (a term for those who invite people into the religion), had grown immensely popular following his stint in the show Da’i…

A recent decision by the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) for England and Wales clarifies an operator’s unrestricted right to share and upgrade equipment on a site, according to experts at Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.

The UK government must be careful not to drive British consumers to unregulated gambling markets by imposing overly strict constraints on regulated providers of online gambling services, experts in gambling licensing and regulation have said.

Plans for how the UK energy system will support the transition to a ‘net zero’ economy, shift from fossil fuels and decarbonise the power sector have been published by the government.

Serious violations of labour laws were taking place at the iPhone manufacturing facility in India where a workers’ protest on Saturday turned violent and caused US$7 million worth of damage, a report by the Karnataka state government has found. Exploitative practices such as underpayment of wages, irregular hours and poor working conditions were common at the Wistron Corporation assembling and manufacturing unit in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, as detailed by its Department of…

After being gang-raped by soldiers, steely-eyed Thein Nu went up against Myanmar’s powerful military in a months-long fight for justice – a fight that paid off with a rare legal victory.Her three rapists were jailed for 20 years with hard labour, a sentence she hopes will give other survivors the courage to speak up and challenge the military’s impunity.Lodging a legal complaint pitted the 36-year-old mother of four against Myanmar’s most powerful institution, whose soldiers have long been…

Experts in resolving insurance disputes have welcomed steps taken by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and courts in England and Wales to pre-empt a potential wave of claims from businesses seeking pay-out of business interruption insurance (BII) policies in light of the impact of Covid-19.

Social media users in South Korea have reacted furiously to remarks attributed to the CEO of one of Japan’s leading cosmetics companies, calling for a boycott of DHC Corp. And the campaign appears to be attracting both attention and support in Japan. In a comment reported on the Tokyo-based company’s website, DHC CEO Yoshiaki Yoshida criticised Suntory, another Japanese company that is a rival to DHC in the health supplements sector. “For some reason, the models hired to appear in Suntory…

Vietnam’s central bank on Thursday refuted the US Treasury’s move to designate the Southeast Asian nation a currency manipulator, saying it does not use its exchange rates “to create an unfair competitive advantage in international trade”.In a statement on its website, the the State Bank of Vietnam said Vietnam’s “exchange rate management in recent years is within its general framework of monetary policy and aims to achieve the consistent goal of controlling inflation, stabilising macroeconomy”…

The proposed new EU Data Governance Act (DGA) is a positive step towards to enabling data-driven innovation.