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Jimmy Lai Sentenced to 20 Years Under Hong Kong’s National Security Law

Hong Kong media entrepreneur and pro-democracy advocate...

Former Chinese Justice Minister Sentenced to Life for $20 Million Bribery Scheme

Court finds Tang Yijun abused high office...

The philosophical puzzle of rational artificial intelligence

To what extent can an artificial system...

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Australia: Parties Address Human Rights Issues

(Sydney) – Voters in the upcoming Australian election on May 3, 2025, should consider where political candidates stand on key human rights issues, Human...

Australia 2025 Election Questionnaire

Below is a question-by-question compilation of responses by the Australian Labor Party (ALP), the Liberal National Coalition and the Australian Greens. The Liberal National...

Hong Kong: HKMA and SFC’s guidance on Staking of Virtual Assets

On 7 April 2025, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority1 (HKMA) and the Securities and Futures Commission2 (SFC) issued guidance for authorized institutions (and subsidiaries of locally...

Thailand: The Draft Industrial Waste Management Act – A new waste management regime

In brief The Department of Industrial Works (DIW) recently introduced the Draft Industrial Waste Management Act (DIWMA), which remained open for public hearing until 1...

Making AI-generated code more accurate in any language | MIT News

Programmers can now use large language models (LLMs) to generate computer code more quickly. However, this only makes programmers’ lives easier if that code...

Press Conference by KATO Katsunobu, Minister of State for Financial Services (March 18, 2025) : FSA

(Excerpt) (Tuesday, March 18, 2025, 9:38 am to 9:43 am) Q. I would like to ask about the individual-type Defined Contribution pension plan (iDeCo). The pension reform bill, which...

Press Conference by KATO Katsunobu, Minister of State for Financial Services (March 25, 2025) : FSA

(Excerpt) (Tuesday, March 25, 2025, 9:47 am to 9:52 am) Minister) As already announced yesterday, the Financial Services Agengy (FSA) issued business improvement orders to four companies, Tokio Marine...

16 charged in sweeping Houston-based multimillion-dollar illegal gambling, money laundering conspiracy

HOUSTON – Several Houston-area residents were taken into custody April 2 on various charges including conspiracy, operating illegal game rooms, bribery, and money laundering...

Australia: ASIC undertakes consultation on Buy Now Pay Later regulatory guidance

ASIC has released a draft regulatory guide alongside a consultation paper intended to help providers of Buy Now Pay Later services understand the modified...

Hong Kong: SFC publishes regulatory roadmap for Hong Kong’s virtual asset market

On 19 February 2025, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) issued a regulatory roadmap (Roadmap) for Hong Kong’s virtual asset (VA) market. Entitled “‘A-S-P-I-Re’...

United States: Enforcement of CTA and BOI reporting rule suspended against US companies and citizens

Over the past week there have been two significant announcements by US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the US Department of the Treasury...

Vana is letting users own a piece of the AI models trained on their data

In February 2024, Reddit struck a $60 million deal with Google to let the search giant use data on the platform to train its...

Pattie Maes receives ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award

Pattie Maes, the Germeshausen Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT and head of the Fluid Interfaces research group within the MIT Media Lab, has...

Could Kamala Harris fix Colorado’s cannabis monopoly problem?

As the first Black person in America to be granted a license to open a dispensary, I have witnessed how the cannabis industry can...

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