Reuters/Henry RomeroInternational human rights legislation defines “enforced disappearance” as the action of state agents, or people or groups acting with the state’s authorisation, support, or acquiescence. The immediate perpetrators abduct their victims and take them to clandestine detention sites; the authorities refuse to...
Swing and a miss.Anthony Devlin/PAFollowing the rollercoaster 2015 Ashes series, which saw England defeat Australia 3-2, the two teams are set to meet again in a series of one-day games – weather permitting, that is. It’s been a cloudy and humid summer in much of the UK, and if you believe folklore, that might have been affecting the...
AAP/Dean LewinsRegulators tend to talk in convoluted riddles, deliberately torturing the language such that one is able to read into their official statements almost anything one wants. Who can forget the patron saint of regulators, Alan Greenspan, who described the collapse of the stock market during the dot-com bubble as merely...
I’ve been teaching students in Hong Kong about the relationship between politics and the media, and wanted to illustrate the sometimes problematic relationship between media and power. So I showed them Robert Peston’s BBC Panorama documentary about the “industrial-scale” criminality of Rupert Murdoch’s UK red-tops in...
Photo by Yan Krukau from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-woman-sitting-at-the-table-7640785/As a manager or leader of HR, you might already know that a healthy work environment is vital to the ...
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Business Services Management (BSM) law has been largely overlooked or ignored over the past few decades, but BSM (Business Services Management) law is becoming a central practice area in many modern l...
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Introduction For many businesses across the Gold Coast, staffing remains one of the most significant challenges. The region’s diverse economy, with its mix of tourism, construction, hospitality, and ...
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