A Hong Kong court on Saturday sentenced five speech therapists to 19 months in prison over children’s books deemed to be seditious, in a case that rights defenders say marks a major blow to free speech amid a tightening of civil liberties in the Chinese territory.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IN A MINUTE OR LESS As discussed in our 6 September edition of Litigation Minute, mass arbitration filings allow plaintiffs’ lawyers to take advantage of the asymmetry in filing fees that major arbitration institutions charge—to individual claimants versus corporate defendants—to gain significant settlement leverage before any […]

Brisbane – Global law firm K&L Gates has advised TAE Aerospace, a global aerospace company, in connection with its acquisition by Australian defence manufacturer ASDAM. This major transaction in the Australian defence sector saw ASDAM acquire all of the shares in TAE Aerospace. The acquisition is the latest in a […]

Country: World Source: UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction The report, United in Science, shows that greenhouse gas concentrations continue to reach record highs. As global warming increases, “tipping points” in the climate system cannot be ruled out.

Photo: Pixabay/Mhy Deforestation in tropical nations has deprived vast territories of wildlife habitats and carbon sinks, but logging and land clearning aren’t the only activities that are posing a threat to remaining forests. In Indonesia, a country that still boasts plenty of tropical forest cover, nearly 60% of deforestation is […]

An estimated 6.3 million people in Sri Lanka are facing moderate to severe acute food insecurity and their situation is expected to worsen if adequate life-saving assistance and livelihood support is not provided, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme […]