ANALYSIS: The UAE’s much-anticipated Foreign Direct Investment Law (‘FDI Law’) has recently come into force, laying the framework for up to 100% direct foreign investment in the UAE.
More 1MDB secrets to emerge from Hong Kong, Singapore, says journalist Rewcastle Brown
Details of the millions that former prime minister Najib Razak and his wife allegedly took from the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) sovereign wealth fund and hid in Hong Kong and Singapore will soon emerge in the widening investigations on how billions were looted from Malaysia’s national coffers, said investigative journalist Clare Rewcastle Brown.
Rewcastle, whose blog The Sarawak Report fuelled corruption allegations against Najib and his associates – leading to his electoral…
Surfer uses board to fend off shark that bit his leg at a beach in Australia’s New South Wales
A man used his surfboard to fend off a shark that bit him on his calf near an Australian beach, two days after a fatal attack on the Great Barrier Reef.
Lee Jonsson, a 43-year-old teacher’s aide at a local school, was bitten on Wednesday at Shelly Beach off Ballina in New South Wales state. Japanese surfer Tadashi Nakahara died at the same beach in 2015 after a great white shark 3 to 4 metres long tore off both his legs.
Government shark experts measured the tooth imprints in Jonsson…
Insight into Electronic Communications Code rulings and reforms
ANALYSIS: Landowners and telecoms operators can expect the UK’s Electronic Communications Code (ECC) to be updated again in the coming months to support the government’s broadband ambitions, but can learn how the current ECC applies from two recent rulings.
Boeing issues safety advice over sensors on 737 MAX after fatal Indonesian crash
Boeing issued a special bulletin on Wednesday addressing a sensor problem flagged by Indonesian safety officials investigating the crash of a Lion Air 737 that killed 189 people last week.
The planemaker said local aviation officials believed pilots may have been given wrong information by the plane’s automated systems before the fatal crash.
“The Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee has indicated that Lion Air flight 610 experienced erroneous input from one of its…
Australian foreign minister Marise Payne will raise concerns with China over Xinjiang internment camps during rare visit
Australia’s concerns over internment camps in China’s far west, where rights groups say up to a million people are being held without charge, will be raised this week when the country’s foreign minister visits Beijing.
Marise Payne said on Tuesday she will register “serious concerns” over the huge facilities in Xinjiang, where activists say hundreds of thousands of Uygurs and other mainly Muslim minorities are detained in political re-education camps. The visit is…
Budget 2018: Compliance and enforcement
ANALYSIS: There were thankfully few measures in the UK’s Budget extending the powers of HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), but plenty targeting avoidance and ‘unfair outcomes’.
Indonesian flight grounded after passengers revolt over sacks of stinky durian in cargo hold
An Indonesian flight was grounded for an hour on Monday after passengers kicked up a stink about what was in the hold – dozens of sacks of durian, arguably the world’s smelliest fruit. Footage of the incident, uploaded to Facebook by a passenger named Amir Zidane, shows travellers milling around on the tarmac as aircrew unload the offending cargo, whose smell has been likened to rotten onions, turpentine and dirty gym socks. In the series of videos, which have since gone viral, a…
Thousands of Sri Lankans take to streets in support of new government led by former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa
Thousands of Sri Lankans marched on Monday in support of a new government led by the country’s former strongman, highlighting the political polarisation in the Indian Ocean island nation.
The rally near parliament comes amid a constitutional crisis sparked by President Maithripala Sirisena’s move to oust prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, replace him with ex-leader Mahinda Rajapaksa and suspend parliament.
Wickremesinghe has refused to vacate his official residence, insisting he…
Supreme Court rejects time bar in passenger death at sea case
ANALYSIS: The Supreme Court has issued an important judgment on the interaction between the 1974 Athens Convention on carriage of passengers by sea and time bar provisions in Scottish domestic law.