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The Constitutional Court of Thailand on Tuesday agreed to consider a petition to impeach Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on suspicion that he illegally held shares in the Shin Corporation , a telecommunications giant that...

Officials from over 100 countries are meeting in Geneva this week to discuss strengthening a United Nations treaty which controls the use of tobacco products worldwide. The two-week conference is underway to determine further provisions for the World Health...

Singapore's national association of lawyers, the Law Society , is to conduct a review of the nation's death penalty laws and make recommendations to the national government in nine months. Singapore has one of the world's highest per capita...

Convicted drug trafficker and Australian citizen Van Tuong Nguyen was executed by Singapore Thursday, despite a strong plea for clemency submitted by the Australian government to the president of Singapore. Nguyen was caught with 14 ounces of...

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) on Tuesday announced that it has launched its largest international wave of legal action against illegal online file-sharing. This latest push targeted 2,100 alleged uploaders [IFPI...

Muslim leaders and rights groups in Indonesia fear that plans to strengthen Indonesian anti-terror laws in the wake a of a second round of Bali bombings earlier this month will return the country to...

In Tuesday's environmental law news, the European Commission has approved a plan to add international airline flights to the European Union's carbon dioxide (CO2) emission trading scheme (ETS) . The ETS...

Myanmar's military-led government announced Sunday that it will not seek the rotating chairmanship of the regional Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) security organization as it was entitled to do. The announcement was made during ASEAN's Ministerial...

In a short televised statement, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said it is "reasonably clear" that the multiple London transport system blasts earlier Thursday were "terrorist attacks" designed to...

Chinese authorities have detained Zhu Jiuhi, a Beijing lawyer and activist for the development of rule of law after he attempted to file a landmark civil suit against the provincial government and lower-level governments for confiscating private investors' oil...