Month: June 2022

Marcos’ plan to slash local rice prices to 20 pesos a kg (37 cents) is ‘impossible’, agriculture economist said Though not unprecedented, it is unusual for a Philippines president to hold a post in their own cabinet.

Environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues are rising up the boardroom agenda in response to increasing global regulation

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched a US$36 million clean energy investment scheme in Vietnam.

Sara Duterte-Carpio’s six-year term with President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jnr does not officially start until June 30, when he will be inaugurated. Marcos was at Sunday’s swearing in event, as was current leader President Rodrigo Duterte.

A bill that would legalise same-sex marriage won initial approval from Thai lawmakers this week despite opposition from the government, which wants civil partnerships for LGBT people instead.

After two years of Covid postponements, LGBT event returns, with excitement that archaic colonial-era Section 377A Penal Code law criminalising sex between men will soon be repealed.

Surveys show growing support for abolishing the colonial-era law that makes sex between men illegal, but other policies could be tightened to appease the city state’s conservatives if it is scrapped.

New guidance issued by the European Commission will be welcomed by UK-based suppliers involved in complex post-Brexit data transfer arrangements, but the guidance highlights a data protection “compliance gap” in relation to other data transfers, according to experts.

Organisations that have already invested significant time and resources into EU data protection law compliance will not be required to make substantial changes to comply with a new, UK-specific regime, the government has suggested.

The two men are accused of abducting two Canadians and a German and killing them months later after the deadline for payment of the ransoms had passed, as well as other ransom kidnappings and bomb attacks.