A Hong Kong court has sentenced Joshua Wong and three other activists to between four and 10 months in prison for participating in an unauthorized rally last year to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.

The 36th Session of the Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission (APFIC) has wrapped up the first of its three-day biennial session, convened in its first all-virtual format, amid ongoing uncertainties created within fishery-food supply chains caused by the global pandemic. In opening the Commission Session, the Director-General of the Department of Fisheries of […]

Among the many ravages of the Covid-19 pandemic have been financial hardships for numerous conservation projects worldwide. As tourists have stopped coming, ecotourism initiatives whose proceeds helped fund wildlife conservation have been feeling the pinch from Africa to Southeast Asia. Then again, for many abused and exploited animals a lack […]

There have been a number of policy and funding developments applicable to the hydrogen energy industry in Australia since the release of K&L Gates’ The H2 Handbook in October last year. These developments have come at both commonwealth and state level and highlight the current governmental appetite to foster the […]

Washington, D.C. – Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added Craig E. Leen as a partner in the labor, employment, and workplace safety practice. Leen joins the Washington, D.C., office from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).  As Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) with […]