Month: February 2023

The Scottish government’s proposed ban on alcohol advertising threatens jobs in the drinks industry and fails to recognise that businesses will look to find ways to work around the new rules.

The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has determined that two gambling adverts featuring a pair of former England international footballers were not likely to appeal to under-18s

Much like carbon emissions, companies will soon be expected to monitor their impact on biodiversity. Measures to promote and preserve biodiversity will need to go beyond greenwashing practices like pledges to plant trees.

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr confronted Chinese Ambassador Huang Xilian over the b‘aggressive’ actions of the bChinese coastguard against a Philippine patrol boat and the ‘increasing frequency and intensity of actions by China against the Philippine coastguard and fishermen’.

Filipinos have been targets of scam networks operating in Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia, because of their English-language and computer skills.

Yeo says the row is ‘a surface wound’ that will heal in a few months, adding that even while US-China ties have been strained, trade has continued growing.

South Africa’s energy crisis cannot be solved by relaxing procurement rules to enable local authorities to source excess power generated by businesses, even if the solution proves successful in Cape Town.

Online outlet Voice of Democracy reported on February 9 that Hun Sen’s eldest son, Lieutenant General Hun Manet, had approved financial aid to Turkey.

False allegations of children being snatched by strangers are rife on social media, leading to a spate of vigilante action, some of it fatal, with mentally ill people often the target.

The withdrawal came after Islamist groups protested a curriculum overhaul to recognise transgender identities, same-sex relationships and secular science.