Month: December 2023

A falling fertility rate is a concerning development for North Korea, because it depends on mobilised labour to help keep its broken, heavily sanctioned economy afloat.

EU rules on ‘cookies’ are set to overhauled again in a move backed by the head of the European Commission.

Sim Lek Yam and Tan Im Choon had frequent disputes before the incident. Sim was sentenced to 10 weeks’ jail and required to pay US$96 to Tan.

There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties after the Sunday eruption of Mount Marapi on the island of Sumatra

Manila said it counted 111 ‘Chinese maritime militia vessels’ within Whitsun Reef – more than 1,000km from China – on November 13. On Saturday, there were over 135, the coastguard said.

Earlier this year, Nepal’s supreme court issued an interim order enabling the registration of same-sex marriages for the first time.

The Philippines did not announce the November 24 executions until it was formally notified by China, and says it has ‘exhausted all measures available’ for appeal.

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has indicated that addressing greenwashing must be actively considered as a separate concept by regulated financial firms when meeting their obligations to be “fair, clear and not misleading”, according to legal experts.

A new ruling should encourage more organisations to seek to resolve their disputes out-of-court via mediation or other alternative dispute resolution (ADR) procedures, according to experts in dispute resolution.

Organisations and businesses that use algorithms to calculate risks in the Netherlands need to pay close attention to data collection that could lead to breaches of the GDPR, after the Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) showed its supervisory power over unlawful use of an algorithm in a recent case.