Photo: Pixabay/Kanenori  The planet’s climate is a finely tuned system prone to the so-called butterfly effect whereby a change in one area of the world can have consequences in another far away. A case in point, says an international team of scientists, is that warming in the Arctic during winter […]

Government Ministers from 46 countries in Asia and the Pacific will gather here from 8 – 11 March, to reach consensus inter-alia on the way forward, following the damage dealt by the global Pandemic to lives and livelihoods of those involved in the food and agriculture sectors in the world’s […]

The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) is currently collecting data from U.S. institutions in connection with its mandatory five-year benchmark survey of the ownership of foreign securities by U.S. residents. This survey must be completed on Form SHC by all U.S. custodians and end-investors (as described below) that exceed […]

Balai Penyelidikan dan Pengembangan Teknologi Kebencanaan Geologi (BPPTKG) menyatakan Gunung Merapi di perbatasan DI Yogyakarta dan Jawa Tengah mengalami 83 kali gempa guguran selama periode pengamatan pada Selasa (8/2) pukul …

Photo: Pixabay/_Alicja_ Prolonged droughts. Frequent heatwaves. Melting polar ice sheets. These are among the most dramatic effects of climate change, but less obvious are changes that are more subtle yet potentially no less harmful to the environment over the long term. Among these latter trends is the earlier flowering of […]

North Korea boasted on Tuesday that it is one of only a handful of countries in the world to field nuclear weapons and advanced missiles and the only one standing up to the United States by “shaking the world” with missile tests.

In November of 2021, Japan adopted two licensing exemptions aimed at assisting foreign asset managers who intend to open offices in Japan. This is another important step forward for Japan’s International Financial City Initiative policy (IFC Initiative Policy), which we discussed in our previous alert accessible here. By way of […]

Melbourne – Global law firm K&L Gates continues to grow its Australian labour, employment and workplace safety team with the addition of partner Dominic Fleeton, who returns to K&L Gates’ Melbourne office from Kingston Reid. An experienced safety and industrial relations lawyer and litigator, Fleeton works across a range of industries, […]