There is a longstanding territorial dispute raging in the South China Sea between China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan, Brunei, and Vietnam over several groups of islands called the Spratlys and Parcels. While most of the players involved are...Read Article » ...
China's Zhang Jian was elected by acclimation, along with South Korea's Chung Mong Gyu and the Philippines' Mariano Araneta. Zhang's election is widely regarded as one small step toward China someday holding a FIFA World Cup. Experts: Discovering local characteristics helpful for enriching ...
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In 1950, Ecuador claimed rights to a 322kilometer (200-mile) zone. Indonesia and the Philippines asserted rights over all waters separating their islands. The vast resources derived from the oceans countered the viewpoint that it was a free space. As new technologies increased human abilities to...
Neighbouring Philippines, for example, is a country that has accepted the individual complaints mechanisms under both the ICCPR in 1989 and CEDAW in 2003, and has been the subject of complaints that not only highlight the human rights record of the government but put pressure on it to improve...
but the process of building them can kill the reefs that snorkellers like to swim over…The three countries with the largest numbers of people who fish on reefs are all in the coral-triangle region: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines. In Indonesia and in the Philippines, up to...
The Chinese Nine-Dash Line consists of a territorial claim by Chinese authorities which effectively places most of the South China Sea under Chinese jurisdiction, thus inflating uproar among its maritime neighbors. The case was brought to arbitration under Annex VII UNCLOS by the Philippines, and th...
had egregious human rights records in the treatment of their own citizens, to wit, Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua, Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, Fulgencio Batista in Cuba, the shah in Iran, Duarte in El Salvador, Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines, and the minority white government...
The University of the Philippines College of Law Library is considered as the country's "National Law Library." It is located in a four-storey air-conditioned building connecting the UP College of Law and UP Law Center. It is called the Espiritu Hall, in honor of the third Dean of the ...
Project—to give the structure its proper name—isthe most expensive infrastructure enterprisein the world. It is thelargest transfer of water between river basins in history, and China’s main response to its worst environmental threat, which is (despite all the pollution) lack of water. ...