Rod Sims, the chairman of Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission, says that antitrust enforcers in the Asia-Pacific region have to move from friendly cooperation to entrenched partnerships in which agencies work together on merger and cartel probes. Ron Knox in Singapore

The relationship between competition law and trade subsidies must be examined to ensure fairer markets, particularly in developing economies, a senior Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) official said today. Faaez Samadi in Paris

Traditional competition law may require rethinking when applied to the growing digital economy, delegates heard this week at a competition meeting of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).