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Southeast Asian Legal Research Guide: Regional & Comparative Resources
This Guide will help you research the legal systems of the 10 South East Asian nations that comprise The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) - Brunei Darussalam, Camb...
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Southeast Asian Legal Research Guide: Introduction to Brunei & its Legal System
Brunei’s legal system is based on British common law, with a parallel Syariah law system for Muslims, which supersedes the common law system in areas such as family and property...
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Southeast Asian Legal Research Guide: Introduction to Cambodia & its Legal System
The Cambodian legal system is based largely on the French civil system, and is statute based. The Constitution is the Supreme Law. The legal system has evolved from unwritten cu...
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Southeast Asian Legal Research Guide: Introduction to Indonesia & its Legal system
Indonesia has a civil law system based on the Roman-Dutch model. The Dutch colonial occupation of Indonesia for 350 years left a legacy of Dutch colonial law, which is reflected...
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Southeast Asian Legal Research Guide: Introduction to Lao PDR & its Legal System
Laos inherited a typical civil law-based legal system from the French colonial administrators. The original civil codes took Lao customary law into account. After independence, ...
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Southeast Asian Legal Research Guide: Introduction to Malaysia and its Legal System
The Malaysian legal system is a complex product of its history, particularly as a British colony. It is a predominantly common law country, with a separate Islamic law system.
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Southeast Asian Legal Research Guide: Introduction to the Philippines & its Legal System
The Philippine legal system is a mixture of customary usage, Roman (civil law) and Anglo-American (common law) systems, and Islamic law. The legal system is the result of the im...
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Southeast Asian Legal Research Guide: Introduction to Singapore and its Legal System
Singapore has a common law legal system as a result of its colonial past as part of the British empire. The influence of the English common law on the development of Singapore l...
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Southeast Asian Legal Research Guide: Introduction to Thailand & its Legal System
Thailand has a predominantly civil law legal system, but it is a hybrid of many influences.Thai law has its traditional bases in ancient Hindu Code of Manu, modified to conform ...
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Southeast Asian Legal Research Guide: Introduction to Vietnam & its Legal System
Vietnam has had a single, unified legal system since 1975. Vietnam's socialist legal system is influenced by eastern and western legal traditions, the French civil law system, a...
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Social Innovation in Digital Democracy Era: Towards Synergies between Citizens and Governments
The examples of Digital Democracy Social Innovations may take the form of joint projects which involve CSOs or other non-governmental groups and representatives of governments, ...
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The Relationship between Press Freedom and Corruption: The Perception of Journalism Students
‘Without journalists working all over the world, we hardly would be able to expose corruption’, one employee at Transparency International (TI) says, addressing one of the bigge...
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The Role of Media and Investigative Journalism in Combating Corruption
The media and investigative journalism play a crucial role in bringing allegations of corruption to light and fighting against impunity. International consortiums of investigati...
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(RANKED) 2019 World Press Freedom Index: The Southeast Asian Rankings
According to data published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on April 18, 2019, the 2019 World Press Freedom Index categorizes the media climate in more than three-fourths of ...
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Instruction on the implemenation of small vacation for all academic institutions both private and public across the country
The instruction aims to notify all academic institutions to enforce an early summer vacation to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
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Coronavirus COVID-19 global cases by Johns Hopkins CSSE
This interactive web-based dashboard hosted by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University, to visualize and track reported cases in real-t...
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Cambodia Fundamental Freedoms Monitor Year 4
Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC), Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) and the Solidarity Center have collaborated to collect ...
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Smoke on the Water: A Human Rights and Social Impact Assessment of the Destruction of the Tompoun/Cheung Ek Wetlands
More than one million people across Phnom Penh are facing the risk of increased flooding and over one thousand more families are at risk of evictions, ...
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Indigenous Peoples in ASEAN: Vietnam
This study provides a brief history of Vietnam’s indigenous peoples and their profile (including population; geographical location; brief information on their economic, social a...
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Status of Indigenous Peoples’ lands, territories and resources in Asia
Indigenous Peoples, because of their subordination and distinctiveness from mainstream cultures and polities, have been and still are subjected to gross human rights violations,...