Enhancing food security, nutrition and resilience has never been more important in the small island nation of Kiribati than now – in the face of Covid 19 and its associated health and economic impacts.  With funding from UN COVID-19 Response and Recovery Multi-Partner Trust Fund, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) […]

On 2 December 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a Notice of Final Rulemaking in the Federal Register (Final Rule)1 modifying the regulations implementing the federal physician self-referral law (the Stark Law).2 In the Final Rule, CMS largely finalizes many of the proposals set forth in […]

Chambers and Partners has ranked K&L Gates as local and regional leaders in their fields of practice in the 2021 editions of Chambers Asia Pacific Guide and the FinTech Guide.  The guide recognizes the firm and its lawyers in over 20 practices in eight countries and the region, with 27 […]

Countries: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO is seeking $40 million to increase control activities in the worst-hit countries, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, the Sudan and Yemen, where more than 35 million people are acutely food insecure.