Asian Legal Review

Seven of the 10 Chinese suspects arrested in Singapore’s massive money-laundering probe held foreign passports from the likes of Cambodia and Vanuatu, where citizenship can be bought for as little as US$130,000.

TikTok has been issued with a fine of €345 million by Ireland’s data protection authority over historical shortcomings identified in relation to children’s privacy.

The Irish competition regulator warned six companies of their obligations under competition law but conducted no dawn raids in 2022. Its focus appears to have been on consumer law enforcement, merger control and the enactment of new competition laws which will come into force in 2023.

The UK’s reputation as a “trailblazer” in the development of self-driving vehicles is at risk unless new laws are passed as a matter of urgency to better support their testing and commercialisation, a committee of MPs has said.

Strategic competitors, including China, could ‘bypass the need for a physical attack and strike directly at the psychological’, cautioned Defence Forces chief Angus Campbell.

The Hydromover, developed by the Goal Zero consortium, has a capacity to carry 25 tons of cargo and a battery that can be swapped in minutes when depleted.

Businesses in the UK should be considering how a new ‘failure to prevent’ fraud offence should be accounted for in their compliance programmes and contracts, experts at Pinsent Masons have said.

Mariko Takeuchi, a former nurse sentenced to hang for trafficking 3.5 kilos of methamphetamine into Malaysia in 2009, has appealed under the law allowing prisoners sentenced to death or life imprisonment to seek reduced sentences.

Tharman took the presidential affirmation before an audience of some 200 people in the republic’s colonial-era presidential palace, the Istana.

The decision to drop corruption charges against Deputy PM Ahmad Zahid Hamidi sparked criticism that the move is a betrayal of PM Anwar’s reform agenda.