Month: November 2023

The UK’s largest companies have substantially increased their provisions for unpaid tax in the wake of more aggressive action by authorities.

The president of the Thai-Iran Alumni Association, who travelled to Iran to speak with Hamas representatives in October, said he considered his mission ‘accomplished’.

The findings from a new study in India add to a body of evidence on organ donations that illustrates the life-and-death impact of gender inequality.

An armed group in Myanmar has seized control from the country’s ruling junta of the Kyin San Kyawt border gate, a lucrative border crossing to China, a local media outlet said.

Natthawaree Mulkan, the only Thai woman abducted during the Hamas attack on Israel, was one of the 10 Thai captives freed as part of a truce deal.

China has urged Myanmar to guarantee border safety and stability as the junta loses ground to armed rebel groups since clashes broke out in October.

Mohamed Muizzu, who is viewed as pro-China, won October’s presidential election on a promise of getting Indian troops out of Maldives.

Only one in four businesses have a plan in place for dealing with the risks of the UK leaving the EU, a survey by Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com, has found. 

Recent trends might lead observers to believe that the London capital markets – and the wider European capital markets – are all but dead.

Businesses should be able to enforce UK court rulings more easily in other countries in future – and enforce judgments made by foreign courts in the UK too – once the UK accedes to the 2019 Hague Convention, experts in dispute resolution have said.