Asian Legal Review

Businesses are falling short of meeting the General Data Protection Regulation’s (GDPR’s) accountability requirements, the UK’s information commissioner has said.

Chiang Mai is swathed in smog. It’s opaque, oppressive and disconcerting.There’s no horizon. The air is yellowish and way, way above acceptable health levels: the result of forest fires and local slash-and-burn agriculture crashing head-to-head with El Niño, the global weather phenomenon.But the sickly air quality – earlier in the year Bangkok was similarly shrouded in pollution – serves only to match the obfuscation and uncertainty surrounding Thailand’s first contested elections in over eight…

AirAsia, whose website is used by 65 million customers every month, is considering a plan to sell tickets of non-competing carriers on airasia.com, using its size to give online travel agents a run for their money.The Kuala Lumpur-based carrier, Southeast Asia’s largest airline group, which already sells car rentals, accommodation at half a million hotels and serviced apartments worldwide and holiday packages in five regional destinations, thinks it can do a better job of selling these services…

Ly Tong, the former fighter pilot known as the “Vietnamese James Bond” for his daring stunts – including hijacking a plane to drop 50,000 political leaflets over his homeland, calling on citizens to overthrow the communist government – has died in San Diego. He was 74.Last month, Tong was hospitalised and doctors diagnosed him with lung disease.He slipped into a coma on March 21, with his stay at Sharp Memorial Hospital drawing hundreds of visitors, some of whom called him a hero for his…

WHEN INDONESIAN PRESIDENTIAL hopeful Prabowo Subianto faced off against incumbent leader Joko Widodo in a televised debate last week, he surprisingly steered clear of one topic: Chinese investments. The 67-year-old, locked in an increasingly close race with the 57-year-old Widodo, had previously accused the president of selling out the country to China by accepting infrastructure loans, feeding into anti-China sentiments that Jokowi has had to navigate in seeking his second term. If he were…

An Indonesian hostage held by Muslim militants in the southern Philippines swam his way to freedom but another drowned while a Malaysian was shot in the back while escaping, officials said on Saturday.The two Indonesians and the Malaysian separately escaped while Philippine marines were trying to rescue them on Simusa island in southern Sulu province in the last two days, regional military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Gerry Besana said.“The island had been blockaded for the past 41 days. They …

The leader of a popular new Thai political party that ran a strong third in last month’s elections met police on Saturday to hear criminal charges of sedition against him filed by the ruling military junta.Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit was greeted by a crowd of around 300-400 supporters chanting “Keep fighting, Thanathorn!” as he arrived at Pathumwan police station in Bangkok to answer a police summons on a complaint of sedition and assisting criminals filed by a junta officer. The charges…

Fraud stemming from ‘invoice hijacking’ is at a near epidemic level, but businesses can rely on the courts to support their efforts to recover stolen funds if they act fast in light of incidents, experts in civil fraud and asset recovery have said.

Ethical hackers took less than two hours to access “high value data” held by UK higher education providers in each of a series of cybersecurity exercises, it has been revealed.

Pension providers will be compelled to make savers’ data available to them through pension dashboards, the UK government has confirmed.