Asian Legal Review

Indonesians have a saying that a name is akin to a prayer. So when parents give their child a name, it goes without saying that a certain wish for his or her future is inherent within. This belief has produced some distinctive name-giving traditions rooted in the country’s history and diverse cultures. Since there are some 1,300 ethnic groups in Indonesia, the results are as varied as they are unique.For a minority ethnic group like the Indonesian Chinese, who make up less than two per cent of…

North Korea has fired an “unidentified projectile”, South Korea’s military said early Sunday. If confirmed it would be Pyongyang’s eighth launch this year after a month of relative calm on the peninsula during the Beijing Olympics.Pyongyang carried out a record-breaking blitz of weapons tests last month, including of its most powerful missile since 2017, when leader Kim Jong-un baited then-US President Donald Trump with a spate of provocative launches.High-profile negotiations between Trump and…

As Russia continues its assault on Ukraine, several Asian governments are scrambling to evacuate their citizens via its neighbours to the west.Japan said it had an estimated 120 citizens in Ukraine as of late January and evacuation flights were being arranged out of Warsaw, the capital of Poland. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida urged citizens to make their way to the west, towards Poland or Hungary.India said it had already evacuated 4,000 Indians since it started repatriating citizens home a…

Under the UK tax system, a business which spends money on capital assets for use in its business cannot claim a tax deduction for that expenditure.

Football in England is on the cusp of a new era of governance, with a pivotal role envisaged for a new independent regulator to help ensure the financial sustainability of clubs.

This guide provides a brief overview of the UK tax system for a business operating in the UK through a company.

A recent supervisory statement by the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) re-emphasises the need for consistent oversight and governance of unit-linked insurance products amid concerns about their complexity and costs.

An Australian man pleaded guilty on Friday to hurling a wine bottle from his flat at a group of Muslims having a dinner party that struck and killed a Singaporean man.Andrew Gosling is being tried in a Singapore court on a charge of committing a rash act that caused the death of 73-year-old delivery driver Nasiari Sunee in August 2019. He also pleaded guilty to another charge of injuring Nasiari’s wife.Prosecutors said the acts showed religious hostility, but the defence said Gosling’s judgment…

Australia and Japan imposed more sanctions on Friday against Russia, and Canberra said it was “unacceptable” that China was easing trade restrictions with Moscow at a time when it invaded Ukraine.“We will work along with our partners for a rolling wave of sanctions and continuing to ratchet up that pressure on Russia,” Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said during a media conference.Morrison said the fresh sanctions will be placed against “oligarchs whose economic weight is of strategic…

After advertising tech firm manager Lukas Ng kept telling his friends he wanted to “catch Covid-19”, one of them wrote a song about it. A line in the lyrics of the song, that friends of the 32-year-old have been circulating among themselves goes: “Let me get Covid, please!”Ng, who has received two shots of the Pfizer vaccine, tested positive on February 14. It felt like it could not come soon enough though. His girlfriend had tested positive earlier and he continued spending time with her as…