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Publication of the EU Market Abuse Regulation: Particular Considerations for Asset Managers
In the same week that the Recast Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID 2) and its companion Regulation (MiFIR) were ...
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2020 - The year to get licensed - A new start for PE firms and family offices
The Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong (“SFC”) issued two circulars on 7 January 2020 providing guidance on its approach to licensing private equity (“PE”) firms and family offices to carry out regulated activitie...
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Lawbite: Re London Bridge Entertainment Partners LLP (in Administration) [2018] EWHC 3200 (Ch)
At the end of last year the High Court was asked to decide the proper meaning of a rent deposit deed relating to a deposit of over £2 million. The deposit allowed the landlord security for, amongst others, "any proper loss which the landlord m...
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Coronavirus Dividends payable partly in stock may provide capital flexibility to BDCs US
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Lawbite: overriding third party rights a new statutory regime
Housing and Planning Act 2016 Developers often rely on local planning authorities powers under section 237 Town and Country Planning Act 1990, to override easements and other rights over land which has been acquired for or appropriated to pla...
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Eversheds Sutherland: first law firm to back governments Northern Powerhouse partnership programme
Eversheds Sutherland (International) has become the first law firm to join the government’s Northern Powerhouse partnership programme. Established by Prime Minister Theresa May and led by Northern Powerhouse Minister, Andrew Percy, more than 9...
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Altogether: Contemporary Papua New Guinea Art
Altogether: Contemporary Papua New Guinea Art
June 29-Sept. 5, 2008
East-West Center Gallery, Honolulu
Opening reception: Sunday, June 29, 2 p.m.
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Chinese Nature Reserve Managers Train with U.S. Counterparts
Chinese Nature Reserve Managers Train with U.S. Counterparts
HONOLULU (May 29) -- A group of 30 nature reserve managers and conservation officials from across China are currently in Hawai‘i wrapping up an innovative month-long training program during which they have been meeting with their counterparts at nature reserves across the United States to learn about conservation management strategies.
Click here to watch a TV news report on the group's visit to Hanauma Bay marine preserve.
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Timor-Leste's Minister of Foreign Affairs to Participate in East-West Center Discussion Panel
Timor-Leste's Minister of Foreign Affairs to Participate in East-West Center Discussion Panel
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HONOLULU (April 30) -- Zacarias Albano da Costa, Foreign Affairs Minister of Timor-Leste (East Timor), will participate in a free public panel discussion at the East-West Center on the morning of Monday, May 5, along with U.S. Ambassador to Timor-Leste Hans G. Klemm, and Constâncio C. Pinto, acting Chargé d'Affaires of Timor-Leste’s embassy in the U.S.
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Hawaii and Vietnam Partner to Combat Emerging Infectious Diseases
Hawaii and Vietnam Partner to Combat Emerging Infectious Diseases
HONOLULU (September 11) – The first planning workshop for an ecological approach to combating emerging infectious diseases (EID) in Southeast Asia will take place September 12-13, 2007 at the Melia Hotel in Hanoi. The East-West Center’s Director of Research, Nancy Lewis, and Senior Fellow Jefferson Fox are teaming up with leading public health researchers from Vietnam’s government and universities together with University of Hawai’i specialists to find ways to prevent and control EID in the region.
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Center for Global Partnership Helps Fund New EWC Journalism Seminar on Disaster Management & Resiliency
Journalists from Pacific Plate countries invited to apply by March 12
HONOLULU (March 5, 2012) – The Japan Foundation’s Center for Global Partnership has awarded the East-West Center close to $100,000 to conduct a journalism seminar focusing on disaster management and resiliency. Journalists from Japan, the U.S., China and other countries bordering the seismically active Pacific tectonic plate are invited to apply by the March 12 deadline. Click here for more information.
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Ambassadors’ Dialogue on Cultivating the U.S.-Korea Global Partnership
Free public seminar at the East-West Center on Fri. Oct. 26
will feature Korea’s Ambassador to the U.S. Y.J. Choi
and U.S. Ambassador to Korea Sung Kim
U.S. Ambassador to Korea Sung Kim and Korea’s Ambassador to the U.S. Y.J. Choi will present a special Ambassadors’ Dialogue on key issues impacting the U.S.-Korea alliance, Fri. Oct. 26, 4:30 – 6 p.m. at the East-west Center’s Imin International Center – Jefferson Hall (across from Kennedy Theatre). The event is open to the public and free of charge. Paid parking is available on the UH Manoa campus.
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Participants from a Variety of Sectors Explore Desired Paths for Myanmar’s Development at Landmark Futures Workshop
According to participants at a strategic forecasting workshop held recently in Yangon, ethnic relations are likely to be one of the key drivers of change in Myanmar over the next seven years, along with the development of human capital, democratic gridlock, and the power triangle between China, India and the United States.
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EWC Welcomes First Participants to New Pacific Islands Leadership Program with Taiwan
Young leaders from 10 Pacific nations participating in program supported by Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry
HONOLULU (Sept. 10, 2013) -- The East-West Center has welcomed the first group of participants to the Pacific Islands Leadership Program with Taiwan, a new initiative designed to enhance leadership capacity in the Pacific islands region and build a network of young leaders who will contribute to lasting people-to-people relationships across the Pacific, Asia, and United States.
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Youth Leadership Exchange Participants from Burma Awarded Funds for Mandalay Environment Project
HONOLULU (Dec. 3, 2013) -- Five high school students and one teacher from Burma who were recent participants in the Southeast Asia Youth Leadership Program at the East-West Center have won a grant of $7,000 in a project proposal competition sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, which funds the SEAYLP program.
The EWC program alumni received their award for a proposal to educate the public in the city of Mandalay about environmental issues – with a special focus on outreach to adolescents – and to decrease the amount of litter in the community through clean-ups and placement of recycling bins.
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EWC Welcomes 2014 Pacific Islands Leadership Program Participants
Young leaders from 13 Pacific nations participating
in program supported by Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry
HONOLULU (Sept. 9, 2013) -- The East-West Center has welcomed 26 participants from 13 island nations to the 2014 Pacific Islands Leadership Program with Taiwan.
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East-West Center Announces Scholarship Partnership with Okinawa Prefecture
NAHA, OKINAWA (Sept. 20, 2014) – At the East-West Center’s 2014 international alumni conference that concluded yesterday in Naha, Okinawa, Center officials announced a new partnership with the Okinawa Prefecture Government that will continue an established scholarship program that allows several Okinawan students each year to pursue graduate degree or leadership program study at EWC and the University of Hawai‘i.
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President Obama Meets With EWC Southeast Asian Leadership Participants
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Doris Duke Funding Adds U.S., Middle East Arts and Culture Reporters to East-West Center’s U.S.-Islamic Media Program
HONOLULU (Aug. 18, 2015) – Thanks to more than $84,000 in funding from the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the East-West Center’s 2015 Senior Journalists Seminar, which seeks to improve relations between the U.S. and Muslim regions, will include more Middle Eastern journalists and, for the first time, arts and culture reporters.
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EWC Welcomes Leadership Program Participants from 10 Pacific Island Nations
HONOLULU - (Aug 16, 2017) -- The East-West Center has welcomed 27 emerging leaders from 10 Pacific island nations to this year’s Pacific Islands Leadership Program with Taiwan, or PILP. The participants will spend close to two months in Honolulu, engaging in experiential learning exercises on such topics as applied leadership skills, future scenario planning, social entrepreneurship and risk analysis, climate change and environmental stewardship, international relations, and public health. Then they will travel to Taipei for a month of field study in at the Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Institute of Diplomacy and International Affairs.
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Eversheds' HR e-briefing 513: Termination Payments Parting on good terms
The Employment Appeals Tribunal has issued a decision this week which highlights a potential pitfall for employers who fail to identify correctly the nature of a termination payment. Payments expressed to be “ex-gratia” (ie paid without ...
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UK labour law quarterly update March 2020
Welcome to our March UK labour law quarterly update. This edition contains the following content: News round-up Trade unions and Covid-19 Trade union blacklisting claims on the rise during employment disputes Recent labour case law Full Article
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Coronavirus Does the Mine Health and Safety Inspectorate and the Department of Employment and Labour have the power to issue Compliance Instructions, Force Majeure, and Covid-19 as an Occupational Disease?
On 17 March 2020, we sent out an e-Brief: Occupational Health and Safety: COVID-19 (click here to access this e-brief) where we discussed the responsibilities which are placed on employers in terms...
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Coronavirus - Overview of the impacts of the lockdown in Mauritius Part I - National Measures
National Measures 1. Foreign travel restrictions All foreign travel through the port and the airport of Mauritius have been banned from 19 March to 02 April 2020. 2. National curfew The Curfew Order: In connection with the unfavourable develop...
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Protecting your IP when contracting with third parties IP development and exploitation agreements webinar
In this webinar for education institutions we will consider: - contract principles - early questions to consider: what is the purpose of collaboration? what IP may be generated? who owns background IP? ...
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IHC HR e-briefing 134 - Employment Tribunal reform: a promising start
The Government has today published a consultation on employment tribunal reform. The consultation floats a wide-range of proposals, going well beyond the measures which were rumoured to be up for consideration. The consultation document inclu...
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Supreme Court brings clarification on non-party costs orders for liability insurers
Summary: The Supreme Court handed down its long anticipated judgment in the case of Travellers Insurance Company Limited v XYZ [2019] UKSC 48 on 31 October 2019. The appellant, Travelers Insurance Company Limited (“Travelers”) was succes...
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Quarterly financial crime horizon scanning booklet
Please click here to download our quarterly financial crime horizon scanning booklet. The booklet summarises key financial crime related legal and regulatory changes expected over the next 18 months to 2 years, as well as providing electronic links ...
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Quarterly financial crime horizon scanning booklet
Please click here to download our quarterly financial crime horizon scanning booklet. The booklet summarises key financial crime related legal and regulatory changes expected over the next 18 months to ...
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Quarterly financial crime horizon scanner: Q4 - December 2019
Please click here to download our quarterly financial crime horizon scanning booklet. The booklet summarises key financial crime related legal and regulatory changes expected over the next...
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Quarterly Fraud and Corruption Enforcement update - April 2020
Please click here to download our quarterly Fraud and Corruption Enforcement update. Here we provide a quick overview of the recent key developments relating to criminal investigations and e...
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New guide (TCC) sets out the recommended pre-action process for parties to follow in a procurement dispute
On 17 July 2017, a new Appendix H to the Technology and Construction Court Guide was published which provides guidance on procedures for public procurement cases (the Guide). Although this detailed procedural guidance is likely to prove usefu...
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UK corporate tax rules found to partially constitute illegal EU State aid
On 2 April 2019, the European Commission issued a press release regarding its State aid investigation into aspects of the UK controlled foreign company (CFC) rules. This press release explains that certain aspects of the CFC rules under investigatio...
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Coronavirus M&A transactions part 1 Germany
Coronavirus: effect on M&A sales process The implementation of sales processes is currently facing particular challenges: bidders are dropping out, financing can no longer be implemented, the business plans of the targets can no longer be...
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Coronavirus M&A transactions part 2 Germany
Coronavirus: withdrawal from the SPA - MAC clauses in the sales contract What is the rule in the USA is rather rare in Germany; so-called Material Adverse Change clauses (or MAC clauses), which grant the buyer a right to withdraw from the purchase...
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EU Allows China to Edit Op-Ed Article, Removing Mention of Virus Origins
The EU's ambassador made a 'mistake' in giving the go-ahead for the censorship, officials say.
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Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. 2020 Q1 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation
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Department of Environmental Affairs | Requirement to submit a report generated by the national web based environmental screening tool
Introduction On 5 July 2019, the Minister of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries, Barbara Dallas Creecy, published a notice requiring that when submitting an application for environmental authorisation in terms of regulation 19 and regulation 21 of ...
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Eversheds Sutherland maintains growth with partner promotion in Hong Kong
Eversheds Sutherland has announced 38 partner promotions across its global network. A total of 16 of these promotions are female which is in line with its goal to achieve 30% female representation at partner level by 2021. In Asia, we are plea...
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Eversheds Sutherland announces 38 promotions to partner for 2020
Eversheds Sutherland announces that it has made 38 partner promotions across its International and Europe network. A total of 16 of these promotions are female which is in line with its goal to achieve 30% female representation at partner level by 2...
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Eversheds Sutherland advises on sale of saracus Group to private equity investor Maxburg Capital Partners
Eversheds Sutherland has advised the CEO and owner of saracus group on the sale of the group to an investment fund managed by private equity investor Maxburg Capital Partners. The parties agreed to keep the purchase price confidential. The client w...
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Updata - Quarterly Privacy & Cybersecurity Update: Edition 7 - Including COVID updates
Our Privacy and Cybersecurity team are proud to present the latest edition of Updata. Our international quarterly update provides you with a compilation of privacy and cybersecurity, regulatory and legal updates from our contributors around the worl...
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Eversheds Sutherland Ots & Co has again been highly recognised by Chambers & Partners
Chambers & Partners, an independent editorial and research team recently published the latest editions of Chambers Global and Chambers Europe legal guides. We are proud to announce that Eversheds Sutherland Ots & Co has again been highly...
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Markus Naef: new Partner with Eversheds Sutherland and Brigadier General with the Swiss Armed Forces, currently National Coordinator for procurement in times of COVID-19
Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Partner in the fields of data protection and IT law. As an attorney and 2012 certified Senior Project Manager IPMA Level B, Markus Naef advises companies on legal safeguards and ex...
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Rihan v Ernst & Young Global Ltd & Others Duty of Care extended in relation to former partner
Summary In this case certain E&Y entities based in London were ordered to pay USD10.8 million for loss of earnings to a whistleblowing former auditor employed by an E&Y entity that was not based in the UK and not party to the proceedings. Th...
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Jakarta's 'Great Garuda' Project: Profits for Re-emerging Elites in the Name of Climate Change
By Wilmar Salim, Keith Bettinger, and Micah Fisher
HONOLULU (June 21, 2019)—With a population of more than 30 million, greater Jakarta is the largest metropolitan area in Southeast Asia and one of the most densely populated urban regions in the world. The city is a major economic engine for Indonesia, accounting for approximately 25 percent of the country’s gross domestic product. Yet urban poverty remains an intractable problem, and Jakarta’s infamous traffic congestion paralyzes commerce, leaches productivity, and contributes to air pollution and associated health hazards.
This is a summary only. Click the title for the full article, or visit www.EastWestCenter.org/Research-Wire for more.
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Quarterly labour law update: October 2008
This edition of our quarterly labour law update contains the following content: News number of days lost to strikes in 2007, the highest in five years trade union membership falls in 2007 <...