Asian Legal Review

Food and drink businesses should work together with regulators to improve current guidelines on allergen labelling, an expert has said.

Canberra says its latest measures are aimed at preserving the housing supply for local buyers and tenants.

Trained on data in 11 Southeast Asian languages including Vietnamese, Thai and Bahasa Indonesia, SEA-LION aims to lessen reliance on Western models developed for English.

Construction contractors in Saudi Arabia have scope to raise successful claims enabling them to recover damages for delayed payments by carefully framing their claims in line with the provisions of the Civil Code.

Jakarta should also look at improving domestic economic opportunities to avert a brain drain, analysts say.

Gupta’s compensation took a 30 per cent hit due to last year’s disruptions that affected payment and ATM transactions across the city state.

Critics have accused the South Korean government of playing into Japan’s narrative on Dokdo, which Tokyo claims as the Takeshima islands, amid pressure from Washington for the two to set aside their historical quarrels.

Southeast Asia is one of the largest sources of blue carbon – carbon stored in ocean systems – but human activity is causing massive losses of this potential.

The risk businesses face from litigation is changing as artificial intelligence (AI) tools become more popular. Businesses need to recognise this and consider the different kinds of risks associated with AI technology and how they might give rise to liability.

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