Asian Legal Review

Sakinah attacked the eight-year-old out of frustration after he refused to wear his shoes and delayed boarding a school bus.

The publication of Ireland’s latest climate action plan provides an insight into related policy initiatives that the Irish government will pursue in the months ahead. Although the energy transition and climate change now informs many diverse aspects of strategy, the climate action plan 2024 (CAP 2024), published in December 2023, remains the key underpinning government policy.

Jin Guanghua is accused of committing bank fraud in an illegal scheme by North Korea to generate revenue through the purchase and sale of tobacco.

Lisa Lim spent 30 days in a jail after airport authorities found a huge amount of traditional Chinese medicine in the luggage.

Consistent with other civil law codes in the region, Saudi Arabia’s Civil Transactions Law (Civil Code) provides parties with various avenues to redress the effect of exceptional circumstances, unforeseeable at the time a contract was executed.

‘The Chinese in many parts of the world … don’t have many kids,’ Malaysian Chinese Association President Dr Wee Ka Siong said. ‘You have to think twice because you have to nurture the younger generation.’

The death toll came despite Indonesia’s government imposing an age cap for volunteers and mandating health checks after more than 500 electoral workers died following the 2019 vote.

Many online platforms subject to the EU Digital Services Act (DSA) need to engage in extensive data gathering and disclosure to comply with ‘know your customer’-like (KYC) ‘trader traceability’ requirements.

China’s floundering economy is hurting the Southeast Asian nation’s exports, which declined for a 10th consecutive month in December.

Despite their cost, experts say even a few submarines will have an ‘outsized effect’ on the battlefield – with three being the ‘magic number’.