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Data Privacy and Security
April 24, 2026 | Júlia Tar
Europe
Energy, Trade
April 24, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
Artificial Intelligence, Energy
April 23, 2026 | Emma Whitford
North America
Antitrust View More
April 27, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China has called on internet platforms and delivery companies to better protect gig workers’ rights, urging tighter oversight of algorithms, stronger data privacy safeguards and curbs on unfair fees and anti-c... (more story)
April 27, 2026 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Japan’s antitrust agency released survey results on Monday revealing persistent gaps in safeguards by contracting authorities against bid rigging involving their officials, warning that such cases show no sign of decline.
April 27, 2026 | Yonnex Li
Asia
Hong Kong is considering criminalizing anticompetitive conduct following a deadly fire that killed 168 people and raised questions about the impact of cartel activity on building safety. Competition Commission... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 27, 2026
Asia
Mlex Summary: China’s National Development and Reform Commission, the country’s top economic planner, said Monday it has blocked the foreign acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Manus and ordered the... (more story)
April 27, 2026 | James Konstantin Galvez
Asia
Malaysia’s digital minister Gobind Singh Deo said responsibility for artificial intelligence must remain with human actors, even as policymakers debate AI legal personality. Speaking at a legal conference on M... (more story)
April 27, 2026
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: China’s Ministry of Commerce said in a statement Saturday that it opposes US export control bills, including the Multilateral Alignment of Technology Controls on Hardware Act, or MATCH Act, passe... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 27, 2026 | Nicholas Hirst, Lewis Crofts and Andrew Boyce
Europe
As important as the EU's redrafting of its merger guidelines is the clear shift of late in how the top politicians in Brussels view M&A. The European Commission president wants bigger European companies to eme... (more story)
April 24, 2026
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: Henkel AG's acquisition of Olaplex must be approved by regulators in the US, Germany, UK and Australia, Olaplex told the US Securities and Exchange Commission in a filing.
April 24, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: IonQ and SkyWater received a second request from the US Federal Trade Commission, signaling a deeper investigatory review of their proposed merger. IonQ agreed to acquire SkyWater Technology, the... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 27, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security sent a new draft decree guiding the implementation of the cybersecurity law to the Ministry of Justice for assessment on Saturday. Compared with the previous... (more story)
April 27, 2026 | James Konstantin Galvez
Asia
Singapore is studying potential restrictions on youth access to social media and is not committing to an outright ban, Law Minister Edwin Tong said Monday, signaling a preference for targeted safeguards to add... (more story)
April 27, 2026 | Jenny Lee
Asia
Seven major open-market operators in South Korea have agreed to revise their user terms after the country’s antitrust regulator found multiple clauses that unfairly shifted risks onto users.
Intellectual Property View More
April 27, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
Innoscience has secured another legal victory in its ongoing patent dispute with Infineon Technologies, after a Chinese court upheld the validity of two of its core gallium nitride, or GaN, patents.
April 27, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan’s IP High Court has canceled a JPO, decision that upheld a thermoplastic resin patent used in display materials, finding that the invention was obvious and that its claimed performance benefits weren’t c... (more story)
April 27, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
An Indian court has set aside the refusal of Huntington Alloys’ patent application, ruling that authorities must provide reasoned explanations even in atomic energy cases.
Financial Crime View More
April 24, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned China-based independent teapot refinery Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery Co., one of Iran’s largest customers for cr... (more story)
April 24, 2026
North America
MLex Summary. The sentencing of former coal sales executive Charles Hunter Hobson following his conviction for bribery of Egyptian officials was adjourned to Aug. 4, a US judge ordered.
April 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: European fraud prosecutors have opened an investigation into Peter Mandelson, a former UK minister and European Commissioner. The investigation by OLAF, the European Anti-Fraud Office, is underst... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 27, 2026
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: China’s Ministry of Commerce said Friday it would lift countermeasures on EU banks UAB Urbo Bankas and AB Mano Bankas after the bloc removed sanctions on two Chinese financial institutions a day ... (more story)
April 24, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
A group of UK car finance lenders involved in the £9.1 billion ($12.3 billion) misselling scandal has asked the country's appeal court to block car finance claims from being pursued against them through mass c... (more story)
April 24, 2026 | Fanny Roux
Europe
EU regulators and economists are pushing back against the banking sector's claims that looser US capital rules create unfair competition, arguing that the US Basel III framework remains stricter than Europe's.... (more story)
Trade View More
April 27, 2026
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: China’s Ministry of Commerce said Saturday it strongly opposed the EU’s decision to include Chinese companies in its 20th round of sanctions against Russia, warning the move undermines bilateral ... (more story)
April 27, 2026
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: China’s Ministry of Commerce said Monday it has submitted comments to the European Commission on the EU’s proposed Industrial Accelerator Act, warning the draft would impose discriminatory restri... (more story)
April 24, 2026 | Eliana Hubacker
Asia, North America
The US Court of International Trade partially remanded a Commerce Department antisubsidy duty review of Chinese multilayered wood flooring, finding the agency improperly discarded international timber price da... (more story)
State Aid View More
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Companies in Estonia relying heavily on electricity and exposed to international trade will be eligible for a levy rate reduction of between 75 and 85 percent under a €36 million plan that has wo... (more story)
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A Croatian measure worth €37 million, for the construction of two business facilities offering workspaces for the gaming sector in the town of Novska, has won state aid approval, the European Com... (more story)
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Lufthansa has lost its legal challenge to a lower court verdict that ruled a German €6 billion recapitalization plan for the air carrier was illegal. In a judgment delivered Thursday, the EU's Co... (more story)
Energy View More
April 24, 2026 | Amy Miller
North America
Maine's Democratic governor said Friday that she’s vetoed a bill that would have made Maine the first US state to pause construction on large new data centers. The decision highlights the tough choices for pol... (more story)
April 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Additional sanction proceedings against power sector companies regarding the April 2025 blackout have been opened by Spain’s competition watchdog Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competenci... (more story)
April 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the EU will accelerate its shift to domestic clean energy and push to complete the single market by 2027, following talks in Cyprus between... (more story)
Technology View More
April 27, 2026 | James Konstantin Galvez
Asia
Singapore is preparing to start its new Online Safety (Relief and Accountability) framework, introducing a dedicated Online Safety Commission with powers to order rapid content removal and strengthen victim re... (more story)
April 24, 2026 | Khushita Vasant and Clayton Vickers
North America
Pork processors are set to face off against Minnesota direct action plaintiffs in an alleged price-fixing civil lawsuit, with a US federal judge setting Sept. 9 as the trial date following weeks of discussion.
April 24, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger
Asia, North America
Antitrust attorneys have been leaving the US Federal Trade Commission and US Department of Justice to take jobs with state attorneys general, lured by a jump in hiring, greater responsibility, more geographic ... (more story)