A handsome soldier with a 'medical bill': how romance scammers make you fall in love with them
Dec 01, 2019 03:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Maria Exposto, a Sydney grandmother who fell victim to a romance scam and became an unwitting drug mule, couldnt have known what was before her when she left Australia to sign documents for her fiancé so he could...
Here is what policymakers can do for Europe's news media
Nov 28, 2019 01:34 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Europe is home to some of the most impressive and innovative news media in the world, from digital media such as Dennik N in Slovakia and MediaPart in France to legacy media such as the BBC in the UK and Dagens Nyheter in...
Westpac's panicked response to its money-laundering scandal looks ill-considered
Nov 27, 2019 12:44 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business Law
Westpacs board has jettisoned its chief executive, Brian Hartzer, just hours after he reportedly told his team mainstream Australia was not overly concerned about the banks 23 million alleged breaches of...
Crime and punishment: Rural people are more punitive than city-dwellers
Nov 24, 2019 14:22 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Public attitudes towards punishment have been a key area of research in criminology. Criminologists are interested in the attitudes of the general public towards the punishment of those who have committed crime. This is...
Mandatory vaccination is not the solution for measles in Europe
Nov 19, 2019 03:43 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Global measles cases reached their highest levels since 2006 in the first six months of 2019. With countries around the world struggling to contain outbreaks, government policy on vaccination has come under fire. Germany...
Financial services need to wake up to fact that treating customers well is good business
Nov 19, 2019 03:06 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Economy
South Africas regulatory regime for the financial services sector is going through major changes. The question is whether companies can adapt to a principles-based approach. Or will they default back to rules-based...
Indonesia's first scientific data bank is a step toward strengthening 'open data' practices
Nov 11, 2019 09:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Law
A large number of researchers among Indonesias scientific community have been known to perform unethical data tampering. Many manipulate statistical data to gain a reputation as a researcher who publishes the most under...
Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power
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Will Solomon Islands’ new leader stay close to China?
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects