Monday, 05 March 2012
The deputy general director of Vietnam’s Competition Authority has suggested that the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) consider adopting an EU-style, collective competition policy to police mergers and cartels that cross its members’ borders. Ron Knox in Singapore
Friday, 02 March 2012
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
Wednesday, 29 February 2012
The Philippines is moving closer to establishing its first comprehensive competition law, as a bill to consolidate and strengthen the country’s existing antitrust legislation and create a Fair Trade Commission progresses through the senate.
Friday, 24 February 2012
Junfeng Cai, of MOFCOM’s Anti-Monopoly Bureau, will be taking part in a China-focused panel at GCR Live: Law Leaders Asia-Pacific, to be held next Friday and Saturday in Singapore.
Thursday, 22 December 2011
Leading south-east Asian competition authority officials will be taking part in an ASEAN roundtable at GCR Live: Law Leaders Asia-Pacific, to be held in Singapore on 3-4 March 2012.
Thursday, 17 November 2011
Featured In: November 2011 (Vol. 14 Iss. 10)
In a bold step towards establishing a free trade region, all 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have committed to establishing national competition laws within the next four years. Faaez Samadi looks at the many challenges of uniting a varied and disparate group of countries in a rapidly developing part of the world
Monday, 31 October 2011
Korea’s Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) has fined 10 makers of liquid crystal display (LCD) flat screens 194 million won (€124 million) for price fixing in the markets for computer monitors and televisions between 2001 and 2006.
Monday, 31 October 2011
A Filipino senator has called for an investigation of the country’s telecoms industry after the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) was cleared to buy its rival Digitel.
Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Ashurst LLP and Australia’s Blake Dawson have announced plans to merge by 2014.
Thursday, 02 June 2011
Martin Commons has joined BHP Billiton as antitrust counsel at its new office in Singapore. He joins from Baker & McKenzie in Beijing, where he was special counsel.
Premium Article - Monday, 07 February 2011
Ten of the world’s leading antitrust lawyers have received Global Competition Review's inaugural Lifetime Achievement Awards for their decades of outstanding contributions to the field of competition law and policy.
Premium Article - Tuesday, 11 January 2011
The votes are in for the GCR Awards 2011. The results have been counted and we can now announce the firms in the running for the team awards.
Premium Article - Monday, 13 December 2010
An overwhelming number of GCR readers have registered their votes in the GCR Awards 2011.
Premium Article - Wednesday, 01 December 2010
Voting for the GCR Awards 2011 is now open. To vote, click here.
Premium Article - Monday, 22 November 2010
Hong Kong’s competition law, which was expected to come into effect in 2012, is still at least three years away, an official said today.
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