Asian Legal Review

The UK government’s intention to continue including nuclear technologies in the UK’s energy mix in future will be welcomed by industry, but the government has missed an opportunity to place nuclear power at the heart of its decarbonisation plans, according to experts at Pinsent Masons.

A quarantine-free travel bubble between Singapore and Australia could be established “within the next week”, said Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday.The arrangement will first be focused on allowing vaccinated students and business travellers to travel freely between the two countries, before opening up to tourists, reported The Sydney Morning Herald.Australia is in the “final stages” of concluding the agreement with Singapore, said Morrison, who added that it will also be…

The UK government has published several draft regulations designed to give parliamentarians a better idea of how the Building Safety Bill will be implemented.

The Seoul city government said on Thursday it had filed a police complaint against members of South Korea’s main labour group who defied Covid-19 curbs to protest for more jobs and better work conditions while wearing outfits from the TV megahit Squid Game.Thousands of members of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) staged a nationwide demonstration on Wednesday, according to the group.In downtown Seoul, dozens of members dressed up in flamboyant jumpsuits and masks worn by actors in…

Survivors and descendants of those killed in Indonesia’s anti-communist purge of 1965-1966 are urging Western countries to apologise for their roles in what the CIA has itself described as “one of the worst mass murders of the 20th century”.The spotlight on the West’s role in the state-backed genocide, which claimed the lives of at least hundreds of thousands of Indonesians, has intensified with the recent declassification of British documents revealing that a shadowy propaganda unit of the UK…

In summer 2021 it became apparent that due to the combination of disrupted imports due to the Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit, and increased activity as major global markets emerge from lockdown, there were shortages in construction products and raw materials including timber, steel, pitched roofing, plastics and cement.

Singapore officials said on Wednesday that tighter social gathering measures first put in place in late September would be extended for four weeks, as the country’s health-care system comes under strain from rising Covid-19 hospitalisations despite a high national vaccination rate.The measures – which limit dining in and all social gatherings to groups of two – have caused frustration among vaccinated residents who had hoped authorities would speed up a plan to “live with the virus”.But…

Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah on Wednesday said he expected more Chinese vessels to enter the country’s waters “for as long as” its state-owned Petronas oil and gas company is developing a gas field in its exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea.He also said Malaysia’s current relations with China was “very difficult to quantify but is much better now”, despite what happened in the South China Sea.Oil and gas company Petronas is developing the Kasawari gas field located…

The decarbonisation of industry in the UK will be boosted by the announcement of two favoured clusters for the development of carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) technology, an expert in climate change and sustainability has said.

Thousands of activists marched in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Tuesday to denounce a wave of violence against minority Hindus over an allegedly blasphemous social media post in the predominantly Muslim South Asian country.The ruling Awami League party of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina organised the “harmony procession and peace rally” a day after assailants carried out arson attacks on a remote village in the northern Rangpur district, leaving at least 20 Hindu homes burnt to ash.The violence…