Month: November 2022

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and his South Korean counterpart Lee Jong-sup said any nuclear attack by Pyongyang was ‘unacceptable’.

The recent sentencing of a nursery manager for health and safety failures which led to the death of a toddler in Scotland underlines the need not only for employers to have robust compliance policies but also for their senior managers to ensure those policies and procedures are duly carried out, according to a health and safety law expert.

Hong Kong is not a ‘zero-sum competitor’, an ex-Chinese official said at the Post’s inaugural Hong Kong-Asean Summit 2022.

Singh is the key suspect in the murder of Cordingley whose body was found on a beach in Cairns four years ago.

The 2021 National Security & Investment Act creates a screening regime, giving the UK government the powers to assess, intervene in and in rare instances, block transactions which may give rise to national security concerns.

The 56-year-old lost his temper in one incident after the girl supplied incorrect answers, prompting him to punch her and push her head downwards.

The city state’s PM-in-waiting told Singapore Fintech Festival there should be ‘no doubt’ that it was ‘fully’ embracing emerging technologies. But he said a healthy level of ‘constructive paranoia’ and ‘divine discontent’ were also required.

Singapore’s central bank chief says its capital and financial markets can handle the record inflows – much of it from North Asia, including China. ‘There’s so much money coming in, you can choose’.

A landmark UK Supreme Court ruling that found taxpayers must prove how much VAT they are entitled to reclaim could have major implications for other claims worth tens of millions of pounds, according to one legal expert.

Asia’s fourth-largest economy has entered a week-long period of national mourning, but analysts fear the slump in sentiment caused by the outpouring of grief may not fade quickly and bring a lasting impact.