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Teju Bai walked for a month to join a rally in India’s capital by thousands of sexual assault survivors who came together in public for the first time to demand justice.Bai’s daughter-in-law was raped last year. The young woman has been shamed and remains a target for abuse while her attacker remains free, she said.Sexual assault has become a tinderbox social issue in India after the horrific rape and killing of a student on a New Delhi bus in 2012 that made global headlines.Changes were…

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. Shakespeare’s musing on the trappings of monarchy may be 400 years old, but it appears as pertinent now as ever for the royal families of Asia. In Thailand, King Vajiralongkorn has vetoed his sister’s bid to run for prime minister; in Malaysia, the public reels from the abdication of a king rumoured to have married a Russian model; in Japan, an ageing emperor will soon become the first to step down voluntarily in more than 200 years.Still, what looks…

Online gambling operators could be restricted or even prohibited from accepting deposits from customer credit cards in future under plans being considered by the British gambling regulator.

Plans for a temporary run-off regime, allowing UK insurers to continue to serve their Irish customers for a time-limited period after a no-deal Brexit, have been published by the Irish government.

The Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) has issued a long-awaited decision on the meaning and effect of the consideration and compensation provisions in the 2017 Electronic Communications Code (‘new Code’).

A fire in Bangladesh that killed at least 67 people in the oldest part of the capital shows the lapses in public safety that still plague the South Asian country despite its rapid economic growth.While the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina touts the garment factories and gleaming office towers in Dhaka’s north side as signs of progress, illegal shops and overcrowding in Chawkbazar, one of the city’s many warren-like southern districts, impeded firefighters’ ability to put out Wednesday…

The political party that stunned Thailand with its now-vetoed nomination of King Maha Vajiralongkorn’s sister as its prime ministerial candidate has resumed campaigning following a temporary suspension, with its leaders putting up a defiant front ahead of a court ruling over the contentious move.Chaturon Chaisang, one of the Thai Raksa Chart party’s top leaders, said this week that he and his colleagues would continue to campaign as usual until the Constitutional Court decides their fate. The…

Trade bodies considering drawing up new codes of conduct to govern data privacy practices in their sector will be required to meet admissibility requirements before those codes will be assessed for their compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a data protection watchdog has said.

At least 56 people have died in a huge fire that tore through residential buildings also used as chemical warehouses in an old part of the Bangladeshi capital, a fire official said on Thursday.Dozens of people were trapped in the buildings, unable to escape onto narrow streets clogged with traffic, as the highly-combustible stores of chemicals, body sprays and plastic granules erupted in flames.Bangladesh’s fire service chief Ali Ahmed said the death toll was expected to rise. “The number of…

The American at the centre of Singapore’s HIV data leak scandal ran education-related businesses in Hong Kong, charging as much as HK$8,000 for each assessment of a child with special needs, the South China Morning Post has found.Mikhy Farrera Brochez, 34, who claimed to be a child prodigy and used fake credentials to obtain teaching jobs in at least two tertiary education institutions in Singapore, is listed on the website of a Hong Kong centre called Guia Education as its executive director…