Former Cambodian head of State denies responsibility at UN-backed war crimes...
A former Cambodian head of State Khieu Samphan told the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), where he is facing charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and grave breaches of...
View ArticleUN calls on Cambodia to appoint international judge to genocide court (UN...
The Government of Cambodia formally notified UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in January of the decision not to appoint the current reserve international co-investigating judge, Judge Laurent...
View ArticleCall for Papers
The National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Asian Society of International Law (AsianSIL) are pleased to invite applications to attend the 4th NUS-AsianSIL Young Scholars Workshop 2014 – Asian...
View ArticleUSA urged to clarify basis for drone killings in Pakistan (Amnesty.org, 31...
The USA must disclose details of the legal and factual basis for the lethal use of drones in Pakistan, Amnesty International said today, after US President Barack Obama confirmed that the unmanned...
View ArticleU.N. General Assembly to vote on draft arms trade treaty? (Reuters, 1 April...
The effort over many years to forge an international treaty regulating the booming $70 billion annual trade in conventional weapons is close to completion with a final draft sent to the governments of...
View ArticleItalian Marines' Return to India Defuses Spat (Bloomberg, 24 March 2013)
The Italian government has sent back to India two Italian marines who had shot dead two fishermen off the coast of India in February 2012. The marines were standing trial in an Indian court and had...
View ArticleAsianSIL Regional Conference 2016
AsianSIL Regional Conference 2016 – “International Law and a Dynamic Asia”Organised by Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam13 to 15 June 2016The 2016 Regional Conference of the Asian Society of International...
View ArticleNo need to bring to ICJ to determine Sabah’s sovereignty, says expert (The...
There is no need for Malaysia to bring the issue of Sabah's rights to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as historical and non-historical facts clearly show that it is a sovereign state of...
View ArticleIndian Supreme Court slams Italian government’s compromise with victims' kin...
Terming as "illegal" and "astonishing" Italy's compromise with the kin of two Indian fishermen shot dead by its marines, the Indian Supreme Court said Italy was "playing" with the Indian process of law...
View ArticleAsia’s soaring consumption of raw materials unsustainable, UN warns (UN News,...
The Asia-Pacific region, recipe which has overtaken the rest of the world in consumption of raw materials as affluence and manufacturing increase, must boost its resource efficiency or risk losing...
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