Asian Legal Review

Rising unemployment belies indicators suggesting the economy is undergoing a healthy rebound from the pandemic, and is emerging as a major challenge that could prove costly for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in looming elections.

Australian Mike Cannon-Brookes’s Grok Ventures will provide the funding after Sun Cable entered administration – the US$21 billion project aims to construct the world’s biggest solar farm.

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has opened a consultation on guidelines for the use of environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) or sustainability-related terms in investment funds’ names.

Conservatives were quick to call the movie ‘porn’ and say it should be banned after a scantily clad Siew Pui Yi, an influencer, DJ and former OnlyFans model better known as Ms Puiyi, appeared in the trailer.

One theory is the Vietnamese made their own interpretation of the Chinese word for rabbit, ‘mao’. In Vietnamese, this sounds like ‘meo’, which means cat.

Legal action being taken by Getty Images should spur businesses intending to use others’ data to train artificial intelligence (AI) systems to first conduct robust due diligence to establish whether there are restrictions on using that data, according to experts in intellectual property (IP) law.

UPDATED: The UK government would gain broad powers to impose minimum service levels on employers in six service sectors to account for circumstances in which workers exercise their right to strike, under new legislation that has been proposed.

The coming year is likely to be an important one for UK building safety as a raft of new requirements come into force and the government begins to implement secondary legislation that adds more detail to the new regime.

A 53-year-old Singapore woman who stabbed herself in the abdomen outside a school has been sentenced to 6 months’ jail, with ‘no established causal link’ between her offending and her psychiatric conditions.

Ressa, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with a Russian journalist in 2021, still faces three other cases, including a cyber libel conviction now under appeal that could mean nearly seven years in prison.