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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. -
After the Philippine privacy regulator issued another harsh warning against privacy violations, members of a data protection group began raising questions. -
India has broken new ground with a proposal on how to regulate non-personal data. -
Singapore’s recently published e-commerce market study may have found no current competition issues to worry about in the sector. -
Google has found itself at the center of antitrust scrutiny and growing complaints by local app developers in South Korea. -
US graphics-chip maker Nvidia is facing strong initial headwinds in China over its planned acquisition of UK peer Arm. -
The new head of Japan’s antitrust regulator vowed to chase after digital businesses as needed. -
Not many bosses of government agencies find the time to write a book while doing their day job. -
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. -
Chinese companies acquiring control or at least 35 percent of shares in EU companies might face a new bloc-level review.
