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Southeast Asian Legal Research Guide: Introduction to Lao PDR & its Legal System
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Archived web content
Robin Gardner
2020
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
Malaysia
Archived web content
Robin Gardner
2020
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
Philippines
Archived web content
Robin Gardner
2020
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
Archived web content
Robin Gardner
2020
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
Advocacy and promotional materials
Robin Gardner
2020
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
Viet Nam
Archived web content
Robin Gardner
2020
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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Instruction on enforcement of the implementation of social safety measures in accordance with the guidelines of the Royal Government and the Ministry of Health to reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19 disease during the upcoming holidays
Cambodia
2153
Instruction
July 27, 2020
The instruction aims to strengthen the implementation of social safety measures in accordance with the guidelines of the Royal Government and the Ministry...
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The Vacant, Fallow and Virgin (VFV) Lands Management Law (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No.10 of 2012)
Myanmar
The Vacant, Fallow and Virgin (VFV) Lands Management Law (2012)
Law
March 20, 2012
This Law, consisting of ten Chapters, regulates the following aspects related to vacant, fallow and virgin lands as follows: Name and Definitions (Chap. I); Formation, compositi...
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Burma and Transnational Crime
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Liana Sun Wyler, International Crime and Narcotics, Foreign...
2008
Report by the Congressional Research Service on transnational organized crime in Burma (Myanmar). Transnational crime in Burma bears upon U.S. interests as it threatens regional...
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ILO Lifts All Restrictions on Burma
Myanmar
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Samantha Michaels, The Irrawady
2013
An article in The Irrawaddy on the announcement by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to lift restrictions on Myanmar. The restrictions, which were imposed by the UN ag...
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Myanmar to Draft First Labour Safety Law
Myanmar
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Shwe Yee Saw Myint, Myanmar Times
2012
An article published in the English language weekly Myanmar Times on the first law on safety and health in workplaces being drafted by the Ministry of Labour of Myanmar in 2013.
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Royal Kram No.0620/019 promulgated the law on anti-financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
Cambodia
0620/019
Law
June 27, 2020
The purpose of this law is to ensure that anti-proliferation financing is defined by measures to prevent, protect, suppress, and eliminate financing for the proliferation of wea...
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The Settlement of Labour Dispute Law (The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 5/2012)
Myanmar
5/2012
Law
March 28, 2012
The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw hereby enacts this Law for safeguarding the right of workers or having good relationship between employer and workers and making peaceful workplace or obt...
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The Labour Organization Law (The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 7/2011)
Myanmar
Notification No. 1/2012
Law
October 11, 2011
The Ministry of Labour, in exercising the powers conferred under section 57 of the Labour Organization Law, hereby issues the following rules with the approval of the Union Gove...
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The Commercial Tax Law (The State Law and Order Restoration Council Law No. 8/90)
Myanmar
8/90
Law
January 1, 1990
This dataset has no description
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Foreign Investment Law (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 21/2012)
Myanmar
21/2012
Law
November 2, 2012
This dataset has no description
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Export and Import Law (The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No.17/2012)
Myanmar
17/2012
Law
September 17, 2012
The objectives of this Law are as follows: (a) to enable to implement the economic principles of the State successfully; (b) to enable to lay down the policies relating to expor...
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Sub-Decree No. 21 on the reclassification of 147.4561 hectares of land as state private land located in Chrouy Pisei and Boeung Krum Ler village, Teuk Kleang and Boeung Krum commune, Lvea Em district, Kandal province
Cambodia
21
Sub-decree
February 27, 2020
This sub-decree was issued by the Royal Government of Cambodia with the decision of reclassifying 147.4561 hectares of land as state private land, located in Chrouy Pisei and Bo...
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The Forest Law (The State Law and Order Restoration Council Law No. 8/92)
Myanmar
The Forest Law (The State Law and Order Restoration Council Law No. 8/92)
Law
November 3, 1992
The Forest Law determines the basic principles, regulations and measures on sustainable management, preservation, development, utilization and inspection of forest resources and...
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Minimum Wages Act, 2013 (The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 7)
Myanmar
7/2013
Law
March 22, 2013
To meet with the essential needs of the workers, and their families, who are working at the commercial, production and service, agricultural and livestock breeding businesses an...