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Several executives of South Korean pharmaceutical companies have been arrested by the country’s prosecutors’ office in its first independent antitrust probe since the inauguration of the new prosecutor-general, with investigators suspecting collusive schemes on public tenders among dozens of vaccine producers and distributors covering a wide swathe of the South Korean vaccine market. -
Legislation on protection of privacy and personal data remains at the top of the agenda for members of a key Chinese policy advisory board. -
China's antitrust regulator doesn't consider the economic hardship brought by the Covid-19 as a legitimate mitigating factor to reduce fines. -
Regulatory overlap and turf wars in S Korea, from a request to the Korea Fair Trade Commission to refer McDonald’s Korea for franchise law and subcontracting allegations. -
This week’s announcement that Facebook had secured nearly 10% of Reliance Jio, India’s largest Internet provider, was light on detail & revealed little about the partnership. -
Last week, Japanese competition regulators revoked a previous finding that Qualcomm had violated the country’s Antimonopoly Act, handing a much-needed victory to the US chipmaker that has come under antitrust scrutiny around the world. -
US DOJ says a former exec of Continental Automotive Korea was extradited to the US and pleaded guilty for his role in a global auto-parts cartel. -
US tech giants such as Facebook are growing increasingly concerned about elements of India’s proposed data-protection law, complaining that it would trigger privacy issues for non-Indians & unreasonably restrict unfettered Internet access to teenagers approaching age 18. -
German conglomerate Siemens’ appeal against an antitrust case decision by South Korea's competition regulator will produce a verdict before the end of the year, MLex has learned. -
China's approach to a couple of US-linked transactions in 2020 is set to answer some persistent questions on the country's merger control.