Recent Asia articles
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Tour of Asia by OpenAI head has been unfolding against the backdrop of concerns over the need to regulate AI -
An exclusive interview with Korea Fair Trade Commission Chairman Han Ki-jeong -
South Korea has been at the forefront of digital-platform regulation for many years now
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The trade confrontation between the US and China is reverberating in Japan
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The Year of the Rabbit will play out against an interesting background for Chinese antitrust policy and enforcement.
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One thing that Southeast Asian jurisdictions have in common is the rapid pace of regulatory developments.
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Japan's chief antitrust enforcer lays out his vision in an exclusive MLex interview. -
Japan’s top antitrust official, Kazuyuki Furuya, has a lot on his plate.
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This report examines the impact of regulatory changes in Asia-Pacific on tech giants. -
Asia has become a laboratory for new and at times controversial methods of bringing recalcitrant platforms to heel
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Stricter export controls imposed by the US are likely to have a very real impact on China’s semiconductor industry
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Indonesia’s ambitious data-protection legislation, which borrows heavily from the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation
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US lawmakers have sprung into action, with a potentially game-changing bill springing forward in Congress
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Logic of leniency rules is rock-solid in the eyes of enforcers: Deals promising lighter sentencing can coax cartelists out
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A European court’s decision is being seen as a watershed moment for antitrust enforcement in the EU
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Broadcom’s $61 billion buyout of cloud giant VMware posing new challenges for regulators on both sides of the Atlantic
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The growing use of smart speakers and TV sets has prompted a conversation about privacy
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South Korean privacy chief Yoon Jong-in talks to MLex about his young agency’s key priorities and challenges -
Elon Musk’s 44-billion-US-dollar bid for social-media platform Twitter has fired up a conversation about freedom of speech
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An pair of major providers of global Internet backbone services announced they had discontinued services to Russia
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The collection and storage of biometric data is now occurring on an industrial scale in the United States.
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Meta’s acquisition of Giphy, the database of looped videos known as gifs, has run into trouble in the United Kingdom.
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Amazon has taken on Visa and warned that it will stop taking payments from customers using Visa credit card issued in the UK.
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Google’s South Korean penalty highlights innovation concerns; momentum builds for US anti-graft lawsGoogle’s clash with South Korea’s antitrust enforcer over allegations the search giant engaged in abuse of dominance
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US chipmaker Nvidia’s move to buy Arm, a UK chip designer, for $40 billion is facing regulatory headwinds
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Digital advertising is back on the agenda in Europe, with the announcement of a fresh EU antitrust probe.
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“Fish for finance” may sound like a trendy eatery in London’s West End, but it is simply the latest round of post-Brexit animosity.
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Like a good murder novel, the demise of ABLV Bank of Latvia has left us with a chalk silhouette on the sidewalk.
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China demonstrated to some of the country’s largest technology players, antitrust oversight isn’t limited to the SAMR
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Google’s United States Supreme Court copyright win against Oracle over the development of the Android operating system was a huge development.
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A long-term, successful North Korean hacking heist targeting banks around the world has sparked a conversation about financial institutions’ readiness to take on cyberattacks.
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A landmark antitrust lawsuit targeting Google over its management of digital advertising services is underway in a Texas court.
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Just a few months into the job, Singapore’s antitrust chief had to quickly adjust to changing realities amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
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This MLex special report features an exclusive interview with Sia Aik Kor, head of the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore. -
Two recent developments in Japan are likely to have a significant impact on the country’s regulatory landscape.
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South Korea’s new top competition official speaks to MLex about the enforcement challenges ahead in an increasingly digital world. -
Follow China’s efforts to regulate the online world through the evolution of the Cybersecurity Law. -
Listen in as MLex experts discuss a recent Japan Fair Trade Commission report on the competition issues surrounding Big Data.
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Listen to MLex Senior Correspondent Toh Han Shih talk with MLex's Editor in Chief Robert McLeod about 1MDB in a new MLex podcast.
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Listen to the latest MLex podcast in Japanese.