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Malaysia’s king warned on Saturday that any attempt to ⁠challenge his order ⁠letting former prime minister Najib Razak go ⁠from jail to house arrest could amount to defying his decree, a day after authorities delayed Najib’s transfer.
Najib has been in jail since 2022 after being found guilty of corruption and money laundering in a case linked to a multibillion-dollar ‌scandal at state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad. He has consistently denied wrongdoing.
He was due to be transferred home on…

Data centre investors should anticipate stricter conditions to be imposed on their development, such as obligations to fund new electricity infrastructure or cheaper energy for local communities, to address concerns expressed by some objectors that the benefits of data centre projects are not being felt widely enough, experts at Pinsent Masons have predicted.

UK businesses using facial recognition and other biometric technologies will face a new legal code of practice under government plans designed to provide greater clarity and consistency around the deployment of the technologies.

A massive data breach that affected several airlines across Asia has underscored the need for industries in the region to revisit their reliance on third-party suppliers, analysts have said, warning that more critical infrastructure may soon be affected.
Last week, a wave of airlines reported that customer information was accessed in a data security breach involving Spanish software provider Amadeus.
Several of these breaches involved information found in booking details, including flight data,…

The UK is progressing with guided retirement reforms that are expected to benefit savers, but raise challenging questions for providers and trustees, experts have said.

A growing push among Indonesian lawmakers to investigate Vice-President Gibran Rakabuming Raka’s academic credentials is raising questions about the influence of his father, former leader Joko Widodo, as signs of a rift within the country’s ruling elite grow.
The challenge comes from within President Prabowo Subianto’s own coalition, underscoring how the political alliance that helped propel him to power in 2024 may be unravelling, analysts have said.
It also follows the arrest of a prominent…

The German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) has clarified its position that clawback claims linked to German shareholder loans will apply regardless of the law that governs the underlying loan agreement.

A recent case heard by the High Court of England and Wales carries direct lessons for both real estate landlords and tenants navigating the strict compliance demands of break clause payment conditions.

An Indonesian police inquiry into the wiretapping of President Prabowo Subianto’s phone was a matter for law enforcement, the country’s police chief said on Thursday, as the scandal exposed the deepening cracks between Prabowo and his former backer and predecessor, Joko Widodo.
“We assure you that this is ‌purely law enforcement and has nothing to do with rivalries or anything else,” police chief Suyudi Ario Seto told reporters without elaborating, adding that the arrests must serve as a lesson…

Singapore’s Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) on Thursday rejected a report that a power outage at Woodlands Checkpoint caused traffic congestion along the causeway and on several roads in Johor Bahru on Wednesday.
In its account of Wednesday’s events, ICA said a build-up of Singapore-bound traffic occurred amid planned electrical maintenance works, while two vehicle breakdowns on the Malaysian side of the causeway subsequently contributed to traffic tailing back into…