The proposed new insurance plan is intended to protect the Southeast Asian nation from infrastructure losses caused by natural disasters.
UK VAT recovery allowed on professional services incurred on corporate fundraising disposal
A corporate group that disposed of a subsidiary to fund the development of a new hotel should be allowed to recover the VAT incurred on the professional fees it incurred in order to achieve the sale of the shares, the UK Upper Tribunal has confirmed.
North Korea backs Moscow’s ‘battle for justice’ as Kim Jong-un shows off banned missiles to Russian minister
Kim led defence minister Sergei Shoigu on a tour of an exhibition of new weapons as Pyongyang and Moscow pledged to deepen their strategic ties.
Weaker yen, Osaka casino bet spark Singapore property investors’ rush to Japan
Agents said buyers are snapping up residential units and tourist accommodation in Osaka, where a casino resort is expected to open in 2029.
Existing data transfer mechanisms remain useful and can benefit from EU-US adequacy decision
Many businesses seeking to transfer personal data from the EU to the US may still rely on exiting transfer mechanisms despite the fact the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF) is now in effect, a data protection law expert has said.
Over 1 in 25 Tokyo residents are now foreign as Japan population tumbles for 14th year in a row
More than 580,000 of a record 2.99 million foreign nationals now living in Japan call the capital home, while the number of Japanese residents fell for the first time ever in all 47 of the country’s prefectures.
Cambodia’s Hun Sen resigns as prime minister after 38 years
The 70-year-old Hun Sen has led Cambodia with an iron fist for nearly four decades. He said on Wednesday he will resign and hand power to his eldest son Hun Manet.
India’s Hindu hardliners slam Oppenheimer sex scene featuring holy book: ‘it amounts to waging a war’
An official has urged director Christopher Nolan to cut a scene featuring the Bhagavad Gita, calling it an ‘assault on religious beliefs of a billion tolerant Hindus’.
Singapore jails national service deserter for 6 years after he holed up in Britain for over 2 decades
Soh Choon Wee last reported for national service duty in 1992. He returned to Singapore in 2021 on the advice of his mother because of Covid – and now faces six-and-a-half years in prison.
Hong Kong and mainland China sign Greater Bay Area data flow agreement
Regulators in mainland of China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) have signed an agreement on cross-border data flow in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA).
