Richard Marles says Canberra values its trade ties with Beijing, but has concerns over the lack of transparency in its military build-up.
Three options for managing inflation risk using JCT construction contracts
The current volatile and unpredictable market conditions pose a risk to the success of major projects. However, there are ways that contractors and clients can manage risks associated with inflation in their contracts.
Anger erupts in Bangladesh and India as thousands protest over comments about Islam
Thousands of demonstrators marched in Dhaka and around India chanting slogans and urging nations to cut ties with the country. One official has been suspended and one expelled after insults of religious figures.
Irish funds await Central Bank’s response to EU sustainable finance guidance
Investment funds should expect changes to the way the Central Bank of Ireland evaluates existing and proposed sustainability disclosures, according to one legal expert, after the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) issued new guidance.
Singapore to open Asia’s biggest lab-grown meat facility in another world-first
The plant, owned by US start-up Eat Just and backed by Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, shows how cultivated meat is making the jump from the lab to the factory. Singapore was the first government to allow the sale of cultured meat.
Bundesliga clubs make sustainability a licensing criterion
Football clubs which want to play in the first and second league in Germany will have to fulfil sustainability criteria from the season after next.
Confusion reigns over South African public procurement after judgment
The decision of a South African court earlier this year declaring the country’s procurement regulations to be invalid continues to have a wide-ranging effect on public procurement.
Stinking piles of rubbish are damaging tourism and locals are ‘forced to live like pigs’ in Nepal’s capital city
Proper disposal of waste has been a chronic problem for weeks after hundreds of furious residents near a landfill site forced about 200 trucks laden with Kathmandu’s rubbish to turn back.
Robert Kuok still tops Malaysia’s rich list with US$11 billion as wealth of country’s tycoons tumbles 10 per cent
Second richest is Hong Leong Company chairman Quek Leng Chan, while in third place is Aluminium mogul Koon Poh Keong and his siblings who own Press Metal. The country’s wealthiest have seen an overall drop in their fortunes in the past year due to coronavirus.
Levelling up England: playing ‘whack-a-mole’ with the compulsory purchase system
The UK government’s Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill will make changes to national planning policy and shift to a more centralised system, but it also proposes modest, but still important, changes to the compulsory purchase system.