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 […]
Illinois recently became the 11th state in the US to fully legalize the use of recreational marijuana. The cannabis legalization bill will take effect on January 1, 2020, and will set up a host of […]
The US high court ruled recently that sex offender registry lists do not violate the constitution and upheld the federal government’s authority to require sex offender registration. The 2006 law upheld by the Supreme Court […]
The Thai government has instituted a new law making smoking at home a punishable offense if it harms children or other family member’s health. The new law, part of a larger bill aimed at quelling […]
Only 10% of those applying for amnesty to legally possess and use medical marijuana in Thailand were deemed to have a valid medical condition, according to the Thai Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In total, […]
Grisly pictures from inside a Thai slaughterhouse drew widespread condemnation recently and highlighted the lack of humane killing practices in Thailand’s meat industry. The undercover photos from the slaughterhouse located in central Thailand show workers […]
Even though prostitution is a common phenomenon in Thailand, the practice remains illegal in the country. Legal scholars at the “Review of the prevention and suppression of prostitution laws project” seminar at Thammasat University argued that in […]
Over one million-strong filled the streets in Hong Kong to protest a new extradition proposal that would allow mainland China to extradite individuals living on the island. The extradition law makes it possible for […]
The high court in India’s Punjab and Haryana region of India ruled that all animals have the “rights, duties, and liabilities of a living person’ under the law. The ruling also stated that humans have […]
A new law in the Philippines would require that every student plant at least 10 trees if they plan on graduating from elementary school to college. The so-called “Graduation Legacy For the Environment Act” passed […]
A Japanese court ruled that victims of forced sterilization are not owed compensation by the government once the 20-year statute of limitations expires. The “Eugenic Protection Law”, which was struck down as unconstitutional, allowed the […]
