Nine athletes and a manager went missing after completing their events.
Alibaba, Perennial consortium to redevelop AXA Tower into Singapore’s tallest skyscraper in bet on office space, hotel market
Alibaba is working with a group of investors and developers including the Perennial group to redevelop the 50-storey AXA Tower in Tanjong Pagar into Singapore’s tallest building.
Japan’s Kishida to revamp cabinet, clarify Unification Church ties following Abe’s death
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will reshuffle his cabinet next week in a bid to boost public confidence and tackle a slew of issues like Covid-19, the Ukraine war and rising tensions in the Taiwan Strait.
Philippines’ Marcos tells Blinken Pelosi’s Taiwan trip did not raise ‘intensity’ of US-China tensions
The president told US Secretary of State during talks in Manila that the speaker’s visit showed the existing ‘intensity’ of a situation that was already volatile.
EU court: data attributes revealing sensitive personal data can be ‘special category’ data
Publication of widely used personal data attributes, such as a person’s name, can reveal sensitive personal information about someone else and their disclosure can therefore be prohibited under EU data protection law, according to a new ruling.
Consultation launched on decarbonisation of UK shipping industry
The UK government has called for innovative policy solutions to reduce carbon emissions generated by the country’s shipping industry.
Singapore has executed 10 people in 4 months despite evidence it doesn’t work as a deterrent
The city state has some of the world’s toughest anti-narcotics laws and insists the death penalty remains, but UN says it is not an effective deterrent.
Philippine senator chides Beijing’s envoy over one-China advice after Pelosi’s Taiwan trip
Ambassador Huang Xilian should not lecture Manila on one-China policy when Beijing cannot accept UN tribunal ruling rejecting most of its South China Sea claims, Risa Hontiveros says.
South Korea’s unprecedented 3-month long trade deficit with China not seen as ‘systematic change’
South Korea’s trade with China recorded a US$570 million deficit in July following shortfalls of over US$1 billion in both May and June due to the slowdown in the world’s second largest economy.
The unitary patent
The new European patent with unitary effect, or ‘unitary patent’ (UP), will provide businesses with new choices as to how and where to best protect their innovations.