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 […]
An MP recently took Deputy Finance Minister Santi Prompat to task for Thailand laws that essentially restricts brewing and selling beer a privilege of the ultra-wealthy in the Kingdom. The law, passed in 2000 under the […]
The Thai government has asked giant tech companies to set up centers in each of Southeast Asian country to combat “fake news”, fake accounts, and other online content it deems unworthy. The centers would function […]
Thailand’s state hospitals have finally begun distributing cannabis oils to patients in need under the country’s medical marijuana law passed late last year. The government hospitals received 4,500 bottles of cannabis extract that will be […]
The Bank of Thailand said that it is open to engaging in discussions with Facebook over its recently announced digital currency, Libra. Veerathai Santiprabhob, head of the Bank of Thailand, stated at the Bangkok FinTech […]
Thailand’s new Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul stated recently that he wants to amend the country’s medical marijuana law to make the drug more widely available for those who need it. Specifically, Anutin plans to […]
The US House of Representatives recently passed the “Cambodia Democracy Act of 2019”. If passed by the Senate and signed into legislation by Donald Trump, the bill would allow the president to sanction high-level Cambodian […]
Patients in Thailand will officially be able to be prescribed and receive legal medical marijuana beginning next month. Health officials state that 10,000 bottles of cannabis oil will be produced for medical consumption by the […]
The Trump Administration recently announced in an internal memo that it will close all overseas US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) offices, including the Thailand USCIS branch located in Bangkok. USCIS offices typically handle family […]
Asian countries have long been known for their draconian drugs laws that sometimes see traffickers given the death penalty and users given unusually long prison sentences–even when it comes to marijuana charges. Now, both laws […]
Facebook made massive waves in the cryptocurrency realm recently as the Silicon Valley giant announced it would launch its own digital coin, dubbed Libra. Libra is a called a “stable coin”, meaning it will use […]
