Asian Legal Review

Former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn will be spending Christmas and the beginning of 2019 behind bars after a Tokyo court on Sunday extended his detention until January 1.
“Today, a decision was made to detain [Ghosn]. The full term of the detention will expire on January 1,” the Tokyo District Court said.
The move by the court came as Tokyo prosecutors continue to grill the automobile tycoon over allegations he shifted a personal investment loss worth more than US$16 million to the…

The volcano that apparently triggered a deadly tsunami in Indonesia late Saturday emerged from the sea around the legendary Krakatoa 90 years ago and has been on a high-level eruption watch list for the past decade.
Anak Krakatoa (the “Child of Krakatoa”) has been particularly active since June, occasionally sending massive plumes of ash high into the sky and in October a tour boat was nearly hit by lava bombs from the erupting volcano.
Experts say Anak Krakatoa emerged around 1928…

A Philippine congressman was gunned down at a Christmas celebration on Saturday, police said, the latest violence in a country notorious for deadly political rivalries.
Rodel Batocabe had just finished handing out presents in the central town of Daraga when the lawmaker and his police bodyguard were shot dead by a gunman hiding in the crowd, said regional police official Arnel Escobel. The motive for the murder was not immediately clear, but authorities said they were looking into whether it…

FRAMED PHOTOGRAPHS LINE the television console of a 1,450 sq ft flat in central Singapore. One shows a large group of family members in a rented villa in Bali several months ago, another is of a beaming couple and a third has the couple and their son.
A two-metre-tall Christmas tree stands on the right, with three bears – two large with a smaller one tucked between them – all sharing a red scarf.
It is Friday in the home of James, Shawn and their five-year-old son Noel. The family…

Indian farmer Nur Mohammed can barely sleep for worrying that his wife might soon be made stateless, put in a detention camp and deported.
She is one of four million people left off a draft National Register of Citizens (NRC) published in July in the northeastern state of Assam – provoking accusations of discrimination against Muslim residents and of stoking ethnic tensions.
Those not on the list, who could now face being effectively stripped of their Indian citizenship and rights, can…

The release of a new cybersecurity standard for connected and autonomous vehicles could help inform future legislation to protect the vehicles of the future from hackers, an expert in autonomous vehicles technology and regulation has said.

Ireland’s utilities regulator, the Commission for Regulated Utilities (CRU), has opened a new consultation paper on an investment request by the promoters of the Celtic Electricity Interconnector, a planned project linking the electricity transmission systems of Ireland and France.

The debate over the provenance of the National Gallery’s recently-acquired self-portrait by Artemesia Gentileschi is an important reminder of the need for thorough investigation and careful contractual drafting in such cases, according to art litigation experts at Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com.

Regulations banning ‘cold calls’ relating to pensions have been passed by parliament, and will come into force on 9 January 2019.

UK guidance that sets out when organisations need to carry out data protection impact assessments (DPIAs) has been updated.