Month: February 2023

The 16-year-old was bitten after she jumped into the Swan River in Perth to swim with a pod of dolphins during an outing with friends.

Two separate attacks are believed to have taken place in the same town over the past week, leaving at least four people injured. Conservationists who trapped the animal say it had several wounds on its body and will undergo medical treatment before being released.

Unsuccessful parties to litigation will normally be required to pay a proportion of the winner’s costs as well as their own. ‘After the event’ (ATE) insurance offers a safeguard against all or part of this risk.

Conditional fee agreements (CFAs) and damages based agreements (DBAs) offer an alternative way to fund commercial claims and litigation.

If an organisation is involved in a court case it will have to pay its lawyer’s costs and disbursements/expenses. Depending on the outcome of the case a proportion of the costs and disbursements payable to the lawyers may be recoverable from the opponent.

Rising inflation and a weak yen are prompting expectations of a policy shift and a bond sell-off. The Bank of Japan will have to move carefully to avoid market volatility.

Tin, a three-term lawmaker from the ruling People’s Action Party, will run the superapp’s government affairs department.

The 1,100 megawatts capacity reactor will generate some of Pakistan’s cheapest electricity as the nation suffers nationwide power outages. China financed the facility’s expansion.

Many Filipinos were tricked into thinking they were hired to work at overseas call centres, but instead were forced to work at online scam rooms.

South Korea announced a record trade deficit in January, as exports to China tumbled 31.4 per cent and the value of energy imports jumped amid elevated winter demand and high global prices.