Hong Kong’s Tsim Sha Tsui district commanded the most expensive rental fees among the world’s retail markets last year, as luxury brands from Cartier and Dior to Tiffany kept their flagship stores running on the Kowloon peninsula, according to Savills. Prime retail rent in TST, as the area is called, was £17,132 (US$22,976) per square … Read more
Shed a tear, if you can, for the poor, misunderstood cybercriminals hard at work trying to earn a dishonest crust by infecting organisations with ransomware. Newly released research has revealed that the riches to be made from encrypting a company’s data and demanding a ransom are not proving so easy to come by as they … Read more
$70 was a common price for N64 software, and that was in 1997 dollars! $70 was a common price for N64 software, and that was in 1997 dollars! Hughes Johnson By 2008, top-end disc-based prices had settled to the current standard of $59.99. By 2008, top-end disc-based prices had settled to the current standard of … Read more
The ILS Advisers Fund Index has reported a +0.17% return for February 2025, but the company has highlighted a second consecutive month where there was a broad dispersion between ILS fund returns and performance, as effects from losses due to the California wildfires continued to flow through the market.In addition to the wildfire related negative … Read more
In my contribution to the EAPIL online seminar discussing Ekatarina Aristova’s excellent Tort Litigation against Transnational Corporations: The Challenge of Jurisdiction in English Courts (OUP 2024), I flagged the discussion by Dr Aristova in Chapter 6 of the book, of one of the objections to jurisdiction exercised by ‘European’ or by extension courts in the Global North, … Read more