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.
Irish no-deal Brexit bill proposes temporary insurance run-off regime
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.
First judgment out on value under Electronic Communications Code
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’).
Bangladesh blaze reveals the deadly cost of corruption and overcrowding
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…
Thai elections: Thai Raksa Chart party that put Princess Ubolratana forward as candidate for PM defiant ahead of court ruling on controversial move
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…
GDPR codes must meet admissibility requirements
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.
Fire rips through buildings in Bangladesh, killing at least 56
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…
Mikhy Farrera Brochez, American man at heart of Singapore’s HIV data scandal, ran Hong Kong centre for special needs children
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…
UK court: Brexit did not ‘frustrate’ EMA lease
The European Medicines Agency (EMA), which has relocated to Amsterdam as a result of the UK’s vote to leave the European Union (EU), cannot use Brexit as a reason to break its multi-million pound lease in Canary Wharf, the High Court has ruled.
Thailand’s junta up in arms over plan to cut military outlay – as neighbours like Singapore and Indonesia spend more
Slash defence spending and end conscription? Such proposals from Thailand’s leading anti-junta political party have had the country’s citizens cooing in agreement ahead of the first elections since a 2014 coup, but some industry analysts say the drastic policy move will be hard to implement amid a military spending binge among the kingdom’s neighbours.Another stumbling block, they say, is the fierce opposition likely to come from the influential pro-military establishment that will stay in…