U.S.-Asia Law Institute

February 22 - February 28

China joins in calls for the US to stop bombing Iran and return to negotiations; the Hong Kong Court of Appeal overturns former publisher Jimmy Lai’s lease fraud conviction as he begins a twenty-year sentence for national security offenses; Japan’s Fair Trade Commission raids the offices of Microsoft Japan on suspicion of anti-competitive conduct; South Korea’s legislature approves controversial legislation that criminalizes intentional misapplication of law by judges and prosecutors and allows litigants to appeal finalized Supreme Court rulings to the Constitutional Court; Taiwan’s intelligence agency completes a decades-long declassification process that raises a curtain on surveillance of political opposition during the martial law era.