The Constitutional Court of Thailand on Tuesday agreed to consider dissolving the ruling People's Power Party (PPP) and two others because of election fraud allegedly committed by one...
US President George W. Bush Monday signed into law a bill that will provide for additional intellectual property (IP) rights enforcement resources and stronger penalties for violators of those rights. The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for...
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has broadly interpreted rules protecting the content of databases from copying, regardless of how the information is extracted from its source. The court was considering a lawsuit filed...
The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on Sunday approved measures that would liberalize the country's land use laws in an effort decrease rural poverty and increase the country's agricultural capacity. Under...
Thailand's Office of the Attorney General (OAG) on Friday filed a petition to have the country's Constitutional Court dissolve the ruling People's Power Party (PPP) because of election...
The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Thursday refused to grant Rwanda's request to have genocide suspect Yussuf Munyakazi transferred to the country to face trial. The chamber...
Fiji's High Court on Thursday dismissed a legal challenge to the country's 2006 coup, holding that Fijian President Ratu Josefa Iloilo had the authority to name new leaders after former prime minister Laisenia Qarase [BBC...
A Russian court on Wednesday extended the jail term of former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky until February 2009. Khodorkovsky headed the now-bankrupt Yukos Oil Co. and...
Leaders of both Philippine rebel groups and government militias could be held responsible for the use of child soldiers under a new US law, according to a Wednesday statement by Human Rights Watch ....
Former Bosnian Serb leader and war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic has requested, in a motion released Monday by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) ,...
