British Lesbian Obtains Hong Kong Spousal Visa

September 26, 2017

A British woman was granted a spousal visa to be with her same-sex partner in Hong Kong, Jurist reports. Her application was previously denied by the Hong Kong Immigration Department on the grounds that the term “spouse” didn’t apply to same-sex couples. However, she took her case to the Hong Kong High Court of Appeal and […]

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Five Florida Lawyers Caught Running Insurance Con

September 20, 2017

A group of five lawyers have been found running an insurance scam in Florida, according to 7News Miami. Adam Hurtig, 46, Steven Slootsky, 57, Alexander Kapetan, 45, and Mark Spatz, 58, and Vincent Pravato, 48, had allegedly used bribes to “pad their pockets with money”, scamming people for around half a million dollars in total. […]

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Thailand Joins Madrid Protocol

September 18, 2017

Thailand will join the Madrid Protocol on November 7th 2017, becoming the 99th member country, Bangkok Post reports. The Madrid Protocol is a system that allows people to register trademarks in multiple countries with only one application. This is much easier than the current method, by which separate applications must be made in each country […]

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New Thai Customs Act Comes Into Law

June 10, 2017

Thailand’s new Customs Act comes into law after being announced in May this year, The Nation reports. The new Customs Act B.E 2560 (2017) was announced in the Royal Gazette on May 17th 2017. The new law came as a result of numerous drafts and debates over the old version of the Customs Act, which […]

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Insects as a Staple Food in Thailand-Interview with AFFIA Co-Creator Nathan Preteseille

June 6, 2017

Would you eat cricket pasta? AFFIA- Asian Food and Feed Insect Association is a Bangkok based association that promotes insects as “food and feed”. According to their website, AFFIA’s main objective is to bring “industry and research stakeholders from the insects’ sector in a collaborative movement towards the development of entomoculture, entomophagy and their related […]

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DHS Temporarily Shuts Down H1-B Program

March 7, 2017

The stall will delay the visa program by 6 months Source: http://www.uscg.mil/  The Department of Homeland Security has announced that the fast track processing of H1-B visas will be temporarily shut down. According to Breitbart, Homeland Security officials have requested DHS chief John Kelly to shut the “premium processing” loophole for six months which will, according […]

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Indonesia Amends Trademark Law

December 6, 2016

The law hopes to boost trade of Indonesian products in international markets Lexology reports Indonesia’s trademark law has been amended to enhance “trademarks in line with international conventions and standards” and to boost the creative economy development as well as the trade of Indonesian products in international markets. Thailand’s leading trademark lawyers assist in registration and […]

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Sweden Prosecutes Myanmar Teak Trader

November 21, 2016

The court upheld an earlier ruling that found the trader in violation of EUTR A Swedish court has upheld a ruling that found a teak trader from Myanmar guilty of violating the European Timber Regulation (EUTR). The ruling sets a legal precedent those conservationists hope will be followed in other European countries according to a […]

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Trump Wins Trademark Case in China

November 16, 2016

The decade long lawsuit was over the right to use his name for real estate services Photo by Gage Skidmore Donald Trump has not only won the election, but also a decade long trademark dispute in China for the right to use his name for a variety of real estate services reports Wall Street Journal. Currently, […]

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Piracy Gets Up to 10 Years in New UK Bill

October 4, 2016

The bill is an attempt to deter copyright infringers Photo by Chris Breeze TF reports that a Digital Economy Bill has been introduced in parliament in which the prison sentence for piracy has been raised four fold from the previous two years to a staggering ten years. This bill has been introduced to deter UK citizens […]

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