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ICJ awards island to Singapore in territorial dispute with Malaysia

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students. (all)

[JURIST] The International Court of Justice (ICJ) [official website] Friday ruled [text, PDF; press release, PDF] that a small uninhabited island on which Singapore operates a light beacon does in fact belong to the country, ending a 38-year long dispute between it and neighboring Malaysia [JURIST news archives]. The court held that the strategically important island had originally belonged to

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on May 23, 2008 (boomark / email).

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