Asian Legal Review

Malaysia apologised on Sunday for the upside-down printing of Indonesia’s flag in the souvenir guidebook for the Southeast Asia Games, which officials said is being withdrawn and reprinted.
The mistake, spotted at the games’ opening in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday, sparked an outcry in Indonesia and the hashtag #ShameonyouMalaysia was trending on social media.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo told reporters in Jakarta the incident concerned “national pride…

At least 23 people were killed and 40 others were injured when several cars of a passenger train derailed in northern India Saturday, police said.
The Utkal Express was travelling from the eastern seaside town of Puri to the northern hill town of Haridwar when the train derailed at 5:46 p.m. local time near the town of Khatauli in Uttar Pradesh.
The injured were taken to nearby hospitals and several were in critical condition, IANS news agency reported. Cranes were deployed to lift the coaches…

Much was hidden from the tourists visiting Sinet Chan in her rundown Cambodian orphanage.
When they returned to their hotels, cameras full and best intentions sated, they remained oblivious to the reality of what they had just supported.
Chan, the nine-year-old who sang and danced for them, was being starved. She and the other children hunted and ate mice to survive.
The orphanage’s director beat and raped her, repeatedly, over the course of several years. She was forced to toil in his…

North Korea’s official media sharply criticised South Korea and the United States for pressing ahead with joint military exercises next week amid heightened tensions on the peninsula.
North Korea has long criticised the annual military exercises the US conducts with South Korea, regarding them as a rehearsal for an invasion of the North.
North’s Korea’s Central News Agency said the joint exercises would “further drive the situation on the Korean Peninsula into a…

Digital currency exchanges will be subject to tighter anti-money laundering (AML) regulation in Australia, under new proposals put forward by the country’s coalition government.

The question of whether a case will fall if a judge rejects a party’s evidence on grounds which that party has not had a chance to explain during the trial should be based on whether the overall trial is fair, senior UK judges have indicated.

New legislation has been proposed in Germany to make it easier for businesses subject to professional secrecy duties to outsource activities that engage those obligations of confidentiality.

The Philippines police came under pressure on Friday to explain the killing of a high-school student after the 17-year-old became one of at least 80 people shot dead this week in an escalation of President Rodrigo Duterte’s ruthless war on drugs.
Television channels aired CCTV footage that showed Kian Loyd Delos Santos being carried by two men to the place where his body was later found, raising doubt about an official report that said he was shot because he fired at police officers first…

The US will take immediate and specific actions to intercept any North Korean missile fired at US allies, US Defence Secretary James Mattis said on Thursday. “We would take immediate, specific actions to take it down,” Mattis said in response to a question asked during a press conference in Washington following an annual high-level meeting of the US’s and Japan’s foreign and defence ministers, according to South Korean Yonhap News agency. Mattis’ comments…

UK banks planning to move some of their operations to the EU mainland ahead of the UK’s exit from the EU are “not as far advanced as we would like them to be”, according to a European Central Bank (ECB) board member.