Fresh proposals for data protection reform in the UK are to be unveiled by the UK government, with the existing Data Protection and Digital Information Bill before parliament set to be dumped, it is being reported.
Implementation of EU’s Representative Actions Directive takes shape in Germany
The German legislator has published a draft Bill to transpose the EU‘s Representative Actions Directive (RAD) into German law. The bill, once passed, will give consumers a new route to pursue claims against businesses.
Chinese, Indian foreign ministers hold bilateral talks as G20 meeting ends in disarray
The engagement between two senior diplomats from neighbouring countries is of importance, given that they have been locked in a border stand-off since June 2020 – and the war in Ukraine has overshadowed the G20 summit.
Amazon’s US$6 billion Malaysia investment ‘encouraging’ as PM Anwar nears 100-day mark in office
Anwar hails investment as vote of support for Malaysia’s leadership in the global digital economy, following Tesla’s commitment to set up office in country.
‘I lived in fear’: Why an elite North Korean family chose freedom
Oh Hye-son recently published a Korean-language memoir on how she and her husband Thae Yong-ho, then deputy ambassador at North Korea’s London embassy, defected in 2016.
AI image generators pose serious licensing risks to their developers
Artificial intelligence (AI) image generators have become increasingly popular over the last year, but their developers could be exposing themselves – and their users – to legal, ethical, and regulatory risks by training the technology using copyrighted material.
Vietnam Communist Party nominates Vo Van Thuong as new president: sources
Thuong, 52, widely regarded as close to General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, Vietnam’s most powerful figure and main architect of crackdown on corruption.
‘Respect our sovereignty’, Malaysia tells European courts handling Sulu claim by Philippine heirs
Malaysia’s law minister pledged that the Anwar Ibrahim administration will fight the claims, in a case that could jeopardise globally held assets of the Malaysian government and state-owned enterprises.
Infrastructure businesses undergoing transformation for the green economy
Around a fifth of infrastructure businesses are undergoing or planning to undergo an organisation-wide transformation as they position themselves to take advantage of opportunities arising in the green transition and green economy, according to major global survey run by Pinsent Masons.
As Indonesia powers up EV battery dream with Australian lithium, China set to benefit
Lithium is a critical component in electric vehicle (EV) batteries, and importing more of the commodity will help Indonesia fulfil its goal of an EV manufacturing hub.