GLOBAL
It has now become commonplace for major corporations to join in on LGBT events such as Pride Month, National Coming Out Day or the International...
Ken Chan 12 Nov 2021
SOUTH AFRICA
Dubbed the 'white flower' in SA, the negative effects of single-use plastic shopping bags include reducing the aesthetic value of landscapes, clogging waterways, depleting petroleum reserves...
Asphat Muposhi, Mercy Mpinganjira, Marius Wait 23 Jun 2021
GLOBAL
US President Joe Biden's administration will reengage with the United Nations Human Rights Council, three years after former...
GLOBAL
Smaller countries have been competing for tourists for years. New remote work visas suggest they are now competing for citizens...
Dave Cook 7 Sep 2020
GLOBAL
The recent ruling by the United Nations that governments cannot return people to countries where their lives might be threatened by climate change is a potential game-changer...
Yvonne Su 29 Jan 2020
SOUTH AFRICA
Companies with more gender-balanced boards are less often sued for breaching environmental laws...
Chelsea Liu 31 Aug 2018
SOUTH AFRICA
The Competition Commission has approved the proposed acquisition of Billabong International Limited by global branded apparel business Boardriders Inc.
SOUTH AFRICA
In a modern-day version of claim jumping, two companies are going to court over a contested mining licence in the DRC...
SOUTH AFRICA
New PwC survey dispels myths about women and work...
EGYPT
CAIRO, EGYPT: Egypt's top court hears an appeal today by three jailed Al-Jazeera journalists as expectations of their release grew amid a thawing of Cairo's ties with Qatar, the channel's base...
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON, UK: Social media sites have become "the command-and-control networks of choice for terrorists", the new head of Britain's electronic spying agency GCHQ says...
GLOBAL
Litigation funding is becoming a mainstream asset class with the market set to double in the next five years, predicts Dilip N Massand of Legal Ventures...
AUSTRALIA
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: An Australian court has ordered six Internet service providers to release details of customers who shared the Hollywood film "Dallas Buyers Club" online. It could set a precedent for crackdowns on online piracy...
AFRICA
CAIRO, EGYPT / SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: Australian Al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste marks a year in prison in Egypt today, with Foreign Minister Julie Bishop downplaying hopes that he will be released before a 1 January appeal...
SOUTH AFRICA
The Competition Tribunal has requested further analysis of the transaction between SA's biggest pharmaceutical manufacturer, Aspen, and Swiss food giant Nestlé, following some concerns that the transaction does not address the competition...
Amanda Visser 28 Aug 2013
AUSTRALIA
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: An Australian candidate for national parliament was on Tuesday (20 August) forced to apologise for a personal website which reportedly carried hundreds of lewd jokes and in which he referred to "tit banter".
AUSTRALIA
PERTH, AUSTRALIA: Australia is to host international talks next year to tackle piracy, hoping to stop a crime that has seen hundreds of people taken hostage in this year, Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd said on Friday, 4 November 2011.
