6 April 2012, Friday
Auditing
Money paid to Xian Leng contractors ‘under questionable circumstances’
Capital markets
Eight approved providers of private retirement schemes
Capital Markets and Services (Private Retirement Scheme Industry) Regulations 2012
Felda Global Ventures finalising prospectus
Dispute resolution
Simmering family dispute in Sapura spills into the open
Intellectual property
Legislation
Amendments to Universities and University Colleges Act 1971 [Act 30] will be tabled Monday
Mergers and acquisitions
Hitachi makes a move on IT solutions company eBworx
Metals
No TOL for Australian miner Lynas until hearing of appeal is settled
Are Australian regulations 'tougher' than ours?
Real estate
Naza TTDI eyes listing on local bourse
Malaysia Building Society selling several parcels of land in Johor and Selangor
ASIA
Insurance
Asian aviation market taking off
Islamic finance
Indonesia’s Bank Muamalat plans IDR1.5 trillion Sukuk
Legal services
Unfeasible for foreign firms in Japan to change status from ‘kumiai’ to ‘hojin’
Telecommunications
New Delhi seeks more time to sort out policy amid mounting pressure
CANADA
Health
Former counsel for Imperial Tobacco shredded research papers
Legal profession
Women remain under-represented in the senior ranks of law firms
EUROPE
Banks
Rothschild merging French and British operations
Competition
Dominant firm not in breach simply by selling services below total cost
Graft
French judges looking into three contracts for Scorpene submarines sold to Malaysia
GLOBAL
Islamic finance
Increasing pressure for industry to enter accounting mainstream
Property
‘The House’ is world’s most expensive one-bedroom apartment
NEW ZEALAND
Employment
Reinstatement no longer primary remedy for unjustified dismissal
Intellectual property
A step closer to joining Madrid Protocol
UK
Competition
The relationship between patent law and competition law is inherently uneasy
Contract
Parties had no intention to enter into partnership without a formal written agreement
Health
Tobacco displays banned from supermarket shelves
US
Antitrust
Apple and two others holding out in e-book price-fixing probe
Intellectual property
Major defeat for Google as appeals court reverses 2010 ruling in favour of YouTube
Mergers and acquisitions