Asian Legal Review

Huawei Technologies Co is doubling down on its cloud services in Southeast Asia, launching a new “availability zone” in Thailand as the Chinese telecoms giant pivots to businesses less dependent on semiconductors.Senior executives have expressed optimism about Huawei’s business prospects in the region as major economies there accelerate digital transformation, driving demand for cloud services. An availability zone consists of one or more data centers that can be treated as a single entity,…

Police in Vietnam have summoned a beef noodle seller who filmed himself imitating Nusret Gokce, or “Salt Bae”, days after a top Vietnamese official was caught on camera eating gold-encrusted steak at the Turkish celebrity chef’s London restaurant.Bui Tuan Lam, 38, from the central city of Da Nang, said his intention in making the video, which shows him ceremoniously slicing boiled beef and flamboyantly sprinkling spring onions into a bowl of noodle soup, was not to mock any particular…

Sporting neon hair and flawless skin, Bangkok Naughty Boo is one of a new generation of influencers in Asia promising to stay forever young, on-trend, and scandal-free – because they are computer generated.Blurring the lines between fantasy and reality, these stars are hugely popular with teenagers in the region and will yield increasing power as interest grows in the ‘metaverse’, industry experts say.“I’m 17 forever, non-binary, with a dream of becoming a pop star,” Bangkok Naughty Boo – who…

Sometimes it is necessary for a party who is successfully awarded a judgment in a local or foreign arbitration to enforce their award in South Africa. To enforce the award, the party must approach a High Court in South Africa.

The Irish government has published its long-awaited draft of the Sick Leave Bill 2021.

Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been charged with electoral fraud, adding another case to the many she is already facing, a state-run newspaper reported on Tuesday.On Monday, the election commission appointed by the country’s ruling military brought the fraud case related to last November’s general election.Suu Kyi, together with deposed president of the Suu Kyi-led government Win Myint, and 14 others are accused of exerting influence over the election, according to the report by…

A baby elephant in Indonesia’s Sumatra island died on Tuesday after losing half its trunk in a trap set by poachers who prey on the endangered species, officials said, despite efforts to amputate and treat its wounds.“We tried our best, but it couldn’t be helped,” said Agus Arianto, the head of Aceh province’s conservation agency. “Its trunk was getting rotten and no longer functioning.”The one-year-old female was among the last of the island’s 700 wild Sumatran elephants. She was found very…

The Scottish government has outlined hydrogen production targets, to be underpinned by £100 million of funding, in a new plan out for consultation.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday ended months of speculation about his political plans by filing his candidacy for a senate seat in next year’s elections.However, he kept up the political intrigue by saying he would not support the presidential bid of former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jnr, the son of the former dictator, who has asked Duterte’s daughter Sara to be his running mate.That came despite a survey by the private pollster Social Weather Stations that found Marcos…

About 5 per cent of Singapore’s 5.45 million people are deliberately remaining unvaccinated, officials said on Monday, as they signalled the gradual easing of social distancing restrictions in place since September 27.New quarantine-free travel lanes for vaccinated travellers were also announced, with the city state set to open up to India and Indonesia from November 29, and to Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia from December 6.Singapore now has quarantine-free travel arrangements…