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In India, the income tax department is looking to tax Netflix Inc.’s earnings from its streaming services.

A comparative analysis with French law and the example of maritime disputes.

On 15 November 2020, the Member States of the ASEAN and 5 regional partners being Australia, China, Japan, Korea and New Zealand, met virtually to witness the signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Agreement after 8 years of ASEAN-led grueling negotiations.

The world’s largest free trade arrangement, “the RCEP is an unprecedented mega regional trading arrangement covering a market of 2.2 billion people, or almost 30% of the world’s population, with a combined GDP of US$ 26.2 trillion or about 30% of global GDP, and accounts for nearly 28% of global trade”. The RCEP also represents the first ever free trade agreement between China, Japan and South Korea and is highly symbolic in a time of trade tensions and tariffs.

On September 25, 2020, the Indonesian President ratified the Agreement of October 11, 2018 on the Promotion and Protection of Investments between the Republic of Indonesia and the Republic of Singapore (“ISBIT”) under Presidential Regulation No. 97 of 2020, which entered into force on September 29, 2020.

From 28 September 2020, the updated Requirements for Safe Management Measures (“SMM”) at the Workplace will take effect.

The JSS will be extended by up to seven months to cover wages paid up to March 2021.

A brief by the Singapore team of DS Avocats

On June 17, 2020, the National Assembly has passed the new Law on Investment and the new Law on Enterprise, whose major changes will take effect as from January 1, 2021.

Moving into Phase Two. Singapore moved into Phase Two after 18 June 2359 hours.

The gravity of COVID-19 has not only caused considerable
needs of considering the health and economic impacts of its
outbreak, but the legal implications on employment.

In light of the COVID-19 situation, some companies may have difficulties holding their Annual General Meetings (AGMs) and filing their Annual Returns (ARs).

The Prime Minister announced on 21 April 2020 that the circuit breaker measures will be extended until 1^st June 2020 (instead of 4^th May 2020).

On 6^th April 2020, the Government announced a supplementary Budget 2020 known as the Solidarity Budget complementing the relief measures introduced under Budget 2020 on 18^th February 2020 and the subsequent supplementary Resilience Budget on 26^th March 2020, …