Month: November 2021

Sometimes it is necessary for a party who is successfully awarded a judgment in a local or foreign arbitration to enforce their award in South Africa. To enforce the award, the party must approach a High Court in South Africa.

The Irish government has published its long-awaited draft of the Sick Leave Bill 2021.

Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been charged with electoral fraud, adding another case to the many she is already facing, a state-run newspaper reported on Tuesday.On Monday, the election commission appointed by the country’s ruling military brought the fraud case related to last November’s general election.Suu Kyi, together with deposed president of the Suu Kyi-led government Win Myint, and 14 others are accused of exerting influence over the election, according to the report by…

A baby elephant in Indonesia’s Sumatra island died on Tuesday after losing half its trunk in a trap set by poachers who prey on the endangered species, officials said, despite efforts to amputate and treat its wounds.“We tried our best, but it couldn’t be helped,” said Agus Arianto, the head of Aceh province’s conservation agency. “Its trunk was getting rotten and no longer functioning.”The one-year-old female was among the last of the island’s 700 wild Sumatran elephants. She was found very…

The Scottish government has outlined hydrogen production targets, to be underpinned by £100 million of funding, in a new plan out for consultation.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday ended months of speculation about his political plans by filing his candidacy for a senate seat in next year’s elections.However, he kept up the political intrigue by saying he would not support the presidential bid of former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jnr, the son of the former dictator, who has asked Duterte’s daughter Sara to be his running mate.That came despite a survey by the private pollster Social Weather Stations that found Marcos…

About 5 per cent of Singapore’s 5.45 million people are deliberately remaining unvaccinated, officials said on Monday, as they signalled the gradual easing of social distancing restrictions in place since September 27.New quarantine-free travel lanes for vaccinated travellers were also announced, with the city state set to open up to India and Indonesia from November 29, and to Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia from December 6.Singapore now has quarantine-free travel arrangements…

Hundreds of protesters rallied in Bangkok on Sunday against a decision by a top court that ruled calling for royal reforms amounted to a bid to overthrow Thailand’s ultra-powerful monarchy.The Constitutional Court – which critics have long said is politicised – announced on Wednesday that three prominent protest leaders had made speeches that “aim to overthrow the constitutional monarchy”.While the court’s decision does not result in criminal penalties for the protest leaders, observers say the…

More than a dozen shipowners have made payments of about US$300,000 apiece to release vessels detained by the Indonesian navy, which said they were anchored illegally in the country’s waters near Singapore, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter.The dozen sources include shipowners, crew and maritime security sources all involved in the detentions and payments, which they say were either made in cash to naval officers or via bank transfer to intermediaries who told them they…

A whirlwind of last-minute reshuffles and changes ahead of what is shaping up to be one of the Philippines’ most bizarre presidential elections saw President Rodrigo Duterte’s daughter Sara on Saturday enter the race to become vice-president on the same day her father vowed to do likewise – though some suspect not all is as it seems. A day after withdrawing her bid to run for re-election as mayor of Davao City, Sara Duterte-Carpio filed her certificate of candidacy on Saturday to run for the…