Thailand’s new Lease law came into effect on May 1, 208. The law is intended to expand protections for renters. Some of the practices that the new law will prohibit are demanding multiple months of […]
Filipino President Rodrigo Duerte has ordered for the closure of one of Philippine’s most popular tourist destinations. Boracay Island brings in about 2 million tourists annually and generates about $1 billion from the tourism industry. However, […]
On Wednesday, German authorities reported carrying out the biggest raid in their history of an organized crime ring that trafficked women and Trans women from Thailand for prostitution. Alexander Badle, from Frankfurt’s prosecutor’s office said […]
A Texas appeals court has ruled the Relationship Privacy Act as too vague and that it violates the First Amendment rights of third party people who are not the original parties in the relationship. The Relationship […]
President Trump signed the SESTA law on Wednesday, making websites liable for “user’s speech” in the context to fight human trafficking. The new law has received widespread criticism from advocacy groups. The legislation has already […]
Thailand’s Department of Public Health has issued new regulations on smoking in public that will essentially ban smoking in or near public buildings and other highly concentrated public areas. Now, there will be a five-meter […]
The Thai government is pushing the US and other former colonial powers like the UK to return their artwork and other antiquities that Thai officials believe the country has a cultural right to. Many Thai […]
The Mexico Supreme Court ruled recently that two individuals had the right to use marijuana recreationally. The decision essentially states that a blanket ban on weed is unconstitutional and that individuals have the fundamental right […]
The world’s first all-purpose sex robot resort is set to open next year in West Hollywood, California. While there are already many sex robot brothels popping up all over the world, Eve’s Robot Dreams will […]
An AI algorithm created by LawGeex successfully outdueled 20 law experts in a recent legal showdown–and it wasn’t even close. The study pitted 20 prominent corporate lawyers and contract attorneys against an AI to determine […]
Following Austria’s recent passage of gay marriage, the Czech Republic is set to become the first post-Soviet EU country to allow same-sex couples to get legally married. The bill, which is currently being debated on […]
A Chinese court ruled this week that citizens in Asia’s economic number one economic power have the right to own and trade cryptocurrencies. In the verdict, The Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA) proclaimed that […]
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled last week that an Austrian woman’s freedom of expression was not violated after she called the Prophet Muhammad a pedophile. According to the court’s ruling, the Austrian […]
The United Nations Human Rights Committee ruled last week that France’s banning of the niqab, an Islamic veil that covers the entire body except for the eyes, is a violation of human rights. The case […]
While most western countries are searching for ways to crack down on immigration, Germany recently passed a new immigration bill that seeks to attract more skilled workers from outside the EU in an attempt to […]
