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Chinese and Australian businesses looking for overseas opportunities to expand in the healthcare industry should be aware of important regulatory changes that are taking place in both China and Australia. The healthcare industry in both Australia and China is undergoing significant growth that has been accompanied by rapid regulatory change. Both countries have invested significantly read more...
If you have more than the most passing of interests in the video game industry, you will know that the hot topic in the field for the past few weeks has been the use of “lootboxes” by Electronic Arts as a reward system in their new title Star Wars: Battlefront 2. The consumer backlash to read more...Following the Australian Government’s Response to the Review of Medicines and Medical Devices Regulation in 2016, the government recently released exposure drafts for a set of significant reforms to the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 (Cth). The proposed changes include modifications to the regulation of complementary medicines, and a new class of “provisionally registered goods”. This read more...We’ve known for quite a while that the United States’ Federal Trade Commission (FTC) wouldn’t look too kindly on the use of the hashtag “#spon” to disclose that a Tweet is a paid, or sponsored Tweet. And thanks to eModeration, we think we’ve just found out why. The US FTC released its .com Disclosures Guidelines read more...
It is surprising that the ACCC’s updated Compliance and Enforcement Policy for 2013 makes no express mention of social media. Introduced by Rod Sims in a speech in Sydney on Thursday, 22 February 2013, to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia, the ACCC’s priorities extend to “online consumer issues” but that’s as far as read more...
