Month: March 2023

President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr has vowed to press on with predecessor Rodrigo Duterte’s crackdown on illegal drugs but says he will focus on rehabilitation.

There is a growing demand for alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in Qatar amidst the rising risk of disputes.

Legal threat comes after PM Anwar Ibrahim made a thinly veiled attack on Mahathir Mohamad, potentially reigniting a decades-old feud.

Insolvency practitioners (IPs) are increasingly upskilling themselves in cryptoassets in the wake of several high profile insolvencies and plummeting cryptocurrency valuations.

Two-day conference will feature keynote speeches by Hong Kong’s Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po, Singapore’s Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam and Malaysia’s Minister for International Trade and Industry Tengku Zafrul Aziz.

Criticised in Australia and coldly received in Southeast Asia, the Aukus submarine pact is raising fears of a regional arms race, Taiwan risks and a new cold war.

Thousands of the mostly Rohingya Muslims risk their lives each year on long and expensive sea journeys to reach Malaysia or Indonesia.

The UK government should adopt e-signatures for all parts of its work to help promote their use, and should sign up to an international standard of to ensure they can be relied on in cross-border contracts, a group of advisors has said.

Unlike India, South Korea is in lockstep with the US on Russian sanctions, Xinjiang and even Taiwan, and talk is turning to Quad membership. As the US-India gulf grows, the danger is that China might seek a thaw with India – and a weakening of the US alliance.

There were 17 people on board when the fire broke out at 3pm local time, 14 were evacuated, according to local news reports.