Philippine prosecutors said on Friday they will file tax evasion charges against a news website that has clashed with President Rodrigo Duterte, a case the outlet branded as an “intimidation” effort.
Rappler, which denies the allegations, is one of few Philippine media outfits openly critical of Duterte’s leadership, in particular his deadly anti-narcotics crackdown.
The government accuses Rappler Holdings Corp, the site’s CEO Maria Ressa and its accountant of failing to…
What does the end of PFI and PF2 mean for the infrastructure pipeline?
ANALYSIS: The end of the private finance initiative (PFI) model raises questions over how the UK’s £600 billion infrastructure pipeline will be delivered.
FCA publishes final guidance on ‘Plevin’ PPI complaints
Firms could be required to re-contact consumers who made an unsuccessful complaint about payment protection insurance (PPI) and invite them to make a new complaint under new guidance by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
Delhi imposes three-day ban on trucks as megacity chokes on toxic annual winter smog
Delhi authorities have imposed a three-day ban on trucks entering the world’s most polluted major city as its 20 million inhabitants wheezed in the toxic annual winter smog.
With levels of air pollution classed as “hazardous”, the restriction on the nearly 40,000 medium and heavy lorries that enter Delhi every day was imposed late on Thursday.
The transport ministry said that vehicles carrying food and other essentials were exempted, while appealing to private owners of diesel…
Case dropped against Myanmar journalists facing incitement charges for criticising Yangon regional government’s financial management
The incitement case against three Myanmar journalists who reported critically on the financial management of Yangon’s government has been withdrawn, according to their lawyer, in a rare piece of good news for the country’s beleaguered press.
Eleven Media’s executive editors Kyaw Zaw Lin and Nayi Min and chief reporter Phyo Wai Win were arrested in October but allowed out on bail after a few weeks in detention.
They were accused of incitement after an article raised questions…
Driverless cars: ‘digital highway code’ considered in UK review
A ‘digital highway code’ “may be desirable” and help ensure driverless cars operate within UK road traffic laws, according to the bodies commissioned to assess what legal reforms are necessary to account for the use of autonomous vehicles.
Thai sergeant with HIV arrested over accusations he raped dozens of mostly teenage boys
An HIV-infected Thai sergeant major has been arrested and charged with raping an estimated 75 mostly teenage boys after luring them to meet him in the northeast of the country.
The 43-year-old soldier in Khon Kaen province used a false profile on a gay dating app to invite the alleged victims – who ranged in age from 13 to 18 – to meet him, said Surachate Hakparn, deputy head of the technology crime task force.
We have clear evidence of this and he confessed
Surachate Hakparn, Royal Thai Police…
UAE foreign direct investment changes ‘will increase diversification’ of economy
ANALYSIS: The UAE’s much-anticipated Foreign Direct Investment Law (‘FDI Law’) has recently come into force, laying the framework for up to 100% direct foreign investment in the UAE.
More 1MDB secrets to emerge from Hong Kong, Singapore, says journalist Rewcastle Brown
Details of the millions that former prime minister Najib Razak and his wife allegedly took from the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) sovereign wealth fund and hid in Hong Kong and Singapore will soon emerge in the widening investigations on how billions were looted from Malaysia’s national coffers, said investigative journalist Clare Rewcastle Brown.
Rewcastle, whose blog The Sarawak Report fuelled corruption allegations against Najib and his associates – leading to his electoral…
Surfer uses board to fend off shark that bit his leg at a beach in Australia’s New South Wales
A man used his surfboard to fend off a shark that bit him on his calf near an Australian beach, two days after a fatal attack on the Great Barrier Reef.
Lee Jonsson, a 43-year-old teacher’s aide at a local school, was bitten on Wednesday at Shelly Beach off Ballina in New South Wales state. Japanese surfer Tadashi Nakahara died at the same beach in 2015 after a great white shark 3 to 4 metres long tore off both his legs.
Government shark experts measured the tooth imprints in Jonsson…