Asian Legal Review

The convictions of two South African brothers who attempted to join Islamic State show the country has taken a “strong stance” in fighting international terrorism, a legal expert has said.

Every day, Laos’ first high speed train linking its capital Vientiane to Boten, a city on the Chinese border, leaves the station and brings goods and people up and down along its 414km route.The daily routine started in December following the completion of the rail link that took five years to build.In the northeast of Thailand, a planned rail line is being constructed to connect with the Laos section. The route, part of Beijing’s global trade strategy known as the Belt and Road Initiative,…

The son and namesake of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos strengthened his lead over his closest rival ahead of the presidential election in May, results of a new poll released on Sunday showed.Ferdinand Marcos Jnr garnered a 44-point lead over Philippine Vice-President Leni Robredo in the January 19-24 survey by independent pollster Pulse Asia, an 11-point increase compared with the previous poll in early December.A total of 2,400 respondents were asked to pick their first choice for…

A new Philippine government agency tasked to handle issues related to overseas Filipino workers is likely to bring more bureaucracy and confusion, migrant workers and specialists say, while others fear it may further increase the country’s reliance on exporting labour instead of creating jobs domestically.There were an estimated 2.2 million Filipinos abroad, according to figures released by the Philippine Statistics Authority in 2020. Overseas workers have been essential for the country’s…

Gunmen in the southern Philippines killed a Muslim rebel and eight of his companions in a road ambush Saturday that authorities said was apparently sparked by a land dispute.Several attackers raked two SUVs with assault rifle fire in an early morning ambush in an isolated farming village in Guindulungan town in Maguindanao province, killing nine people and wounding three others who were on their way to a meeting to resolve a long-standing clan dispute, police and local officials said…

United States-born Eileen Gu’s first stunning Olympic gold medal for China has made her probably the most fascinating star of the Beijing Winter Games, on and off the snow.On Tuesday, the 18-year-old athlete jumped into first place at the Olympics’ inaugural women’s freeski big air final with a trick she had never tried in competition, making her the youngest freestyle skiing gold medallist in Olympic history and earning China’s first gold medal in a snow event. She is still heavily favoured to…

Football clubs and other sports organisations should harness the power of data and technology to combat online abuse of their athletes, according to an expert in employment law.

The EU executive arm the European Commission has presented a plan to classify some gas and nuclear power as “transitional” green investments.

The European Commission has accused the UK of breaching EU law during the Brexit transition period by virtue of a UK Supreme Court judgment handed down in February 2020.

An aide to Thailand’s prime minister said he would seek the expulsion of human rights group Amnesty International from the country, after it was accused by ultra royalists of undermining national security.Seksakol Atthawong, a vice-minister in Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha’s office, said on Friday that a petition opposing Amnesty’s presence in Thailand had garnered 1.2 million signatures and would be submitted to the National Security Council and Interior Ministry next week.Thai protesters…