Singapore: K&L Gates Straits Law LLC, the Singapore office of K&L Gates, welcomes Joan Lim-Casanova as a partner in the litigation and dispute resolution practice. She joins the firm’s Singapore office from Cavenagh Law LLP, where she provided litigation representation in a Formal Law Alliance with Clifford Chance. Lim-Casanova has […]

Countries: Lebanon, Syrian Arab Republic Sources: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, World Food Programme The analysis predicts the situation will deteriorate between January and April, with 2.26 million people – 1.46 million residents and 800,000 refugees – expected to be in “crisis” phase or worse.

It’s 23 hours a day in a cell without natural light and just one to walk around in a 7×4-metre courtyard. For Pablo González, an independent Spanish-Russian journalist, it’s been almost a year spent in solitary confinement in Poland. González was arrested on the night of February 27th in Przemysl, […]

As noted in our prior blog post, on 29 December 2022, President Biden signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 (H.R. 2617). Among the routine federal funding provisions, the bill included a holiday surprise “policy rider” for qualifying mergers and acquisitions brokers (M&A brokers) in Division AA, Title […]

The mystery over what causes fairy circles to appear in the landscape of Namibia may at last be solved, with the findings from University of Göttingen researchers in Germany—on what may seem a whimsical topic—likely to add to the understanding of climate change in similar ecosystems. The Namib Desert is […]

Country: World Source: UN Children’s Fund UNICEF report notes that on average, the poorest quintile of learners benefits from only 16 per cent of public funding for education, compared with the richest, who benefit from 28 per cent.

Photo: Pixabay/xiSerge  Coral reefs around the tropics are under increasing stress from warming temperatures, water acidification, pollution and overfishing. Yet one ray of hope for embattled reefs can come in the form of sunshine, according to scientists in the United States. By ensuring that the optical quality of water in […]