Asian Legal Review

Schools, colleges and universities have been warned to budget for an increase in the employer contributions they must pay into the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) on behalf of their staff.

UK universities need to do more to avoid “failing sexual harassment victims”, according to a new report, funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s Catalyst fund.

A record 37,113 cases of suspected child abuse were reported across Japan in the first half of 2018, including 19 cases that ended in the death of a child, according to statistics released by the National Police Agency.
The first-half figure showed an increase for the seventh consecutive year and was up more than 22 per cent compared to the same period in 2017. It suggests the full-year figure will surpass the record 65,431 cases reported to authorities last year.
A total of 2,127 children were…

As campaigning begins for the Indonesian elections, new polls suggest a falling rupiah and rising racial and religious tensions are the key issues standing between President Joko Widodo and a second five-year term. But challenges are also mounting for Widodo following the double disaster of the 7.4-magnitude earthquake and the tsunami that hit Sulawesi last week, with a death toll that stands at more than 1,400 people and is expected to rise as search and rescue efforts continue. The six-…

Manufacturers of new biological or biosimilar medicines could obtain a licence to sell their medicines in the UK within 67 days of making an application under a new scheme aimed at minimising the impact of a ‘no deal’ Brexit.

The head of the IMF on Thursday called for an overhaul of Japan’s economic policy, as the world’s third-biggest economy battles stubborn low inflation, sluggish growth and a rapidly ageing population.
Christine Lagarde called for a “fresh look” at “Abenomics”, the economic policy of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, which combines ultra-loose monetary policy with fiscal stimulus and structural reforms.
“We believe that it will require a revamping of policies….

The UK government has published documents designed to support the implementation of new trade mark laws, which come into force next year.

Singapore Inc is stirring, with companies from real estate to engineering becoming bolder in their hunt for acquisitions abroad.
Companies in the city state announced around US$91 billion of overseas deals this year through September, more than double the US$41.9 billion of transactions for the same period of 2017, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Temasek Holdings Pte and GIC Pte still loom large, but increasingly others are inking their biggest ever transactions to put Singapore on the world…

Australia looks set to become the first country in the world to wipe out cervical cancer, thanks to national vaccination and screening programmes which could see the disease effectively eliminated as a public health issue within 20 years.
New research published in The Lancet Public Health forecasts the disease will soon be a rarity in Australia, with fewer than six new cases per 100,000 women by 2022, and fewer than four new cases per 100,000 women by 2035.
In 2007, Australia launched a…

Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, was arrested on Wednesday afternoon in relation to the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal, the country’s anti-graft agency has said. The arrest of Rosmah – long compared with Imelda Marcos, the spouse of the corruption-tainted late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, because of their extravagant spending habits – signalled prosecutors were intensifying their months-long probe into the scandal. The…