Asian Legal Review

Pakistani authorities have barred a US diplomat involved in a fatal traffic accident from leaving the country, forcing an American military aircraft flown in for his departure to leave without him, local media reported on Saturday.
The move came a day after Pakistan said it would restrict the movements of all American diplomats in the country in response to Washington’s similar restrictions on Pakistani embassy diplomats.
Pakistan will probe Peshawar school attack that killed more than…

Police have raided a deluxe Kuala Lumpur block of flats that houses relatives of ousted Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak in a search for sensitive documents that the new government fears may be taken out of the country, two senior police officers said.
The Saturday swoop came as the new prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, said he had stopped his predecessor from leaving the country because of suspected wrongdoing in connection with a multibillion-dollar scandal at state fund 1MDB.
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The Japanese government is making arrangements for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to meet US President Donald Trump ahead of a landmark US-North Korea summit in Singapore on June 12, government sources said Friday.
As leaders from the Group of Seven industrialised nations are expected to gather in Canada on June 8 and 9, Abe hopes to hold talks with Trump on the fringes of the summit and coordinate efforts toward resolving issues related to Pyongyang, the sources said.
Good vibes for Trump, Xi, Moon…

Legislation which will modernise and consolidate Irish anti-bribery laws, some of which date back to 1889, has received its second reading in the Seanad.

A billion-dollar Indonesian property development with ties to Donald Trump has become the latest project in China’s globe-spanning Belt and Road infrastructure project – just as Washington and Beijing are tussling over trade.
A subsidiary of Chinese state-owned construction firm Metallurgical Corporation of China (MCC) signed a deal with Indonesia’s MNC Land to build a theme park outside Jakarta as part of the ambitious project, the company said on Thursday.
The deal is the…

ANALYSIS: On 3 May 2018, universities minister Sam Gimyah announced a “free speech summit” with representatives from the higher education sector, at which he would “demand” that the sector take further action to protect lawful free speech and work with ministers to publish new guidance that would provide clarity about the rules to both students and universities “for the first time”.

The “overwhelming majority” of software updates for driverless cars will be implemented remotely, a UK government minister has said.

The UK insurance industry has pledged to act to ensure that long-standing customers are not unfairly penalised at renewal compared to new customers.

US President Donald Trump announced on Twitter Thursday morning that his “highly anticipated” meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un would take place in Singapore on June 12, saying that they will try to make the summit “a very special moment for World Peace”. 
Trump tweeted his announcement about seven hours after he welcomed three Americans who had been held in North Korea when they returned to the US at Joint Base Andrews, a military base in Maryland, early…

The catchphrase “Malaysia Boleh” or “Malaysia Can” evolved as a national slogan in the early 1990s, rallying citizens around the proud vision of a tiger economy aspiring to developed nation status. Over time, it came to be used by its very citizens in a mocking tone, deriding their Southeast Asian nation, and especially its government, for its bumbling ways.
But since the night of May 9, spirits have been soaring again as Malaysians try to grasp, still in disbelief, the…