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Legitimacy of Cambodia-Thailand maps by Sean Pengse

Which map should Cambodia and Thailand use for border demarcation? Opinion of Sean Pengse, president of Cambodia’s Border Committee. Join the discussions if you’re interested!

Sex crime expert nabbed for sex crimes: Legal Blog Watch

A North Dakota psychologist who served as an expert witness in hundreds of sex-crime cases in multiple states has admitted an addiction to child pornography and now faces federal charges for possession of child porn.

A defect in Cambodia’s election law?

Article 120 of the Law on the Election of the Members of the National Assembly states in part that members of the National Assembly shall lose their membership if they lose their membership from their political party.

Sex with a corps is a crime in Wisconsin

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has held that attempted disinterment of a corpse for sexual purposes violates criminal law, reversing the decision by the court of appeals.

US immigration law under fire

The New York Times wrote in its headlines today, “Employers Fight Tough Measure on Immigration.” It’s about a law passed in 2007 that provides for license revocation of businesses caught twice with illegal immigrants. Its enactment led to about 5,000 arrests in workplaces in 2007 alone. A large circle of employers nationwide have reacted negatively to the law and therefore moved to have it amended for their benefit. In fact, in Arizona last week, an employer group presented “more than 284,000 signatures — far more than needed — for a November ballot initiative that would make the 2007 law even friendlier to employers,” according to the news.

Mom charged with failure in followup treatments of son’s ‘Highly Curable’ Cancer

A 36-year-old mother has been charged with child endangerment for allegedly failing to see that her 8-year-old son got follow-up treatment for his “highly curable” cancer.
The boy was being treated at Massachusetts General Hospital and had up to 92 percent chance of survival in 2006, his father told ABC News, adding, “the doctor told me [...]

US woman jailed for “modern-day slavery”

“Modern-day slavery” of two Indonesian housekeepers has brought a sentence of 11 years in jail upon a wealthy New York woman, according to BBC news today.  Her husband was to be sentenced later and expected to get a shorter term.
Additionally, she was fined US$25,000.
Reading the news, I think the conclusion of the court was based [...]

Google Inc. wins claim for YouTube.net

The National Arbitration Forum recently issued a decision regarding the rights to YouTube.net, ordering youtube.net domain name be transfered to Complainant Google Inc.,. Click here to read the entire decision.
The decision was made on May 5, based on three main reasons:

the domain name registered by the Respondent is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark [...]

Labor Forum calls for halt to union discrimination

More than 20 NGOs and unions took part in the Labor Forum at the World Vision Cambodia ’s headquarters in Phnom Penh yesterday to seek a halt to discrimination against trade unions, according to Cambodian Press Review on June 20, 2008 which reviewed Rasmei Kampuchea and Koh Santepheap, the two leading Khmer language newspapers in [...]

NGO’s role in improving access to labor justice

Two stories on labor matters were reported in Khmer by Radio Free Asia yesterday. The first one said that Chinese supervisors drove Cambodian workers into the wild in Kampot province, beat them up and finally abandoned them. The second reported that a Thai worker hit a Cambodian worker.
All they could do to have their [...]

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