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In Singapore, one in four companies were hit by at least one fraud incident over the past two years, of which 63 percent were perpetrated by employees, including management and senior management officers.

The Personal Data Protection Bill (Bill) was passed by the Singapore Parliament on 15 October 2012. The Bill is Singapore’s first general baseline law on data protection (DP), and signals an important milestone for Singapore and seeks to bridge the gap between Singapore’s laws and international trends in respect of DP.

The year 2012 has seen several significant developments on the telecoms regulatory landscape.

VIE Contracts & Corporate Governance

Investing in China as a Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (“QFII”)

Foreign Exchange and Repatriation of Renminbi

The Singapore Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC), established by the Singapore Government in December 2000 as an advisory body to examine and to put forward recommendations for potential ethical, legal and social issues arising from research in the biomedical sciences in Singapore, recently concluded a public consultation on its draft Ethics Guidelines for Human Biomedical Research (Guidelines). The BAC does not have supervisory or regulatory powers.

While the global economic crisis of 2008 seems to be in the past, problems in Europe continue to cast a cloud over the global economy. 2011 started with many having a positive, even bullish, outlook.

ALB discusses what a world without the global financial crisis means for private equity in North Asia with Paul, Weiss partner Jack Lange

Key commercial issues that affect foreign investors operating in India

Infrastructure Projects in the Philippines – Public-Private Joint Ventures

There has been the biggest dislocation in the shipping market for the past 25 years, as the surge in activity in prices, chartering, futures and trading in the first half of 2008, gave way to a dramatic slump in the second half of the year and in to 2009

When Oon Thian Seng and Bazul Ashhab set up a two-man shipping practice in 2002, not many would have expected then that T S Oon & Bazul would quickly grow into one of Asia’s leading shipping law firms.

Appleby: a fast-growing offshore firm boosts its network for clients

A Look at Philippine Mining Laws from the Perspective of a Foreign Investor

KhattarWong’s Projects (REIC) Practice Group well-placed to meet opportunities and challenges ahead

Asian prospects for Insolvency/Restructuring lawyers