Philippine conglomerate San Miguel Corp said it will seek all legal options after the government threw out its bid for a 35.4 billion peso ($809 million) toll road project, the biggest under a public-private partnership (PPP) scheme.

Indonesia, the world's top exporter of thermal coal, is considering new regulations to limit coal production and tighten controls on exports, government officials said on Friday, and could introduce the rules by early next month.

Singapore said on Tuesday it has filed criminal charges against a company implicated in an illegal shipment of arms seized near the Panama Canal last year on a North Korean container ship.

A A$38 million ($35 million) settlement of an Australian class action suit against an air cargo cartel won court approval on Friday, said the law firm representing the buyers of international air freight services, who brought the suit.

The strengthening of Indonesia’s regulatory framework through the introduction of a corporate governance code and consumer protection reforms has made legal compliance a challenging task for financial companies. An impending deadline to achieve these goals is adding to the anxiety of several in-house counsel, finds Raghavendra Verma

Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa got the approval of the European Union's competition authority on Wednesday for its $1 billion bid for Telefonica's Irish mobile business in a case that could set the regulatory tone for Telefonica's bigger pending German merger deal.

A conservative Iranian court opened a case against instant messaging services WhatsApp and Instagram while also summoning Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over complaints of privacy violation, state news agency ISNA reported on Tuesday.

Some foreign banks may be allowed to operate in Myanmar later this year, although initially they will only be allowed to have branches in certain areas and offer a limited range of products, government and banking sources said on Tuesday.

Singapore's antitrust regulator fined three Japanese manufacturers S$9.3 million ($7.42 million) on Tuesday for taking part in a ball bearing pricing cartel, the latest move in a global investigation of price fixing by car parts makers.

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd said it will contest a class action alleging it and others artificially inflated zinc prices, adding to a growing legal battle that has so far centred on aluminium.