Religion & Law

The New China
The New York Times has an article discussing rising labor costs in China and multinational companies' reaction to the rise--including opening factories in Vietnam, which has been dubbed the "New China" (apparently Cambodia gets the designation as the New Vietnam)...

Vietnam Is The Next China, Part II. Only If You Completely Ignore Political Stability.
Long-time client, a manufacturer of small steel products, has for months been "threatening" to move his factory to Vietnam, either to replace an existing factory in China or as an adjunct...

China Versus India Versus Vietnam At A Gut Level
Interesting post on This is China, entitled, "My Beer With Andre," documenting a conversation with a Fortune 500 CEO who "had just made the rounds through" China, Vietnam and India "to gain impressions of the investment environments of the countries...

China-U.S. symposium on human rights, rule of law ends (People's Daily)
The first Sino-American Dialogue on Rule of Law and Human Rights ended Sunday in Nantong, a city in east China's Jiangsu Province. The two-day symposium was jointly organized by the China Foundation for Human Rights Development (CFHRD) and National Committee on United States-China Relations (NCUSCR) of the United States...

Bush To Speak about Human Rights in China
US President George Bush will give a speech in Thailand today denouncing China's human rights record. The White House has released some of the speech already:?The United States believes the people of China deserve the fundamental liberty that is the natural right of all human beings...

Kinley on Human RIghts & the Environment in China
David Kinley (University of Sydney - Faculty of Law) has posted The Trinity and the Dragon: Reconciling Finance, Human Rights and the Environment in China (Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, Forthcoming) on SSRN...

Baseball Players Named in Mitchell Report
Major League Baseball Players using Performance Enhancing Drugs

Cumulative Voting
Protecting minority shareholder interests

The Civil Rights Act of 1871
Law bans discrimination enacted under color of state law

State Will Statutes
State Differences in Last Will and Testament Checklist

Discrimination
Federal laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

Civil / Human Rights
alleging violations of basic human and civil rights.

US Federal Government
allegedly violated the niversal Declaration of Human Rights by deporting undocumented parents of US born children.

China Green Agriculture, Inc. 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud
China Green Agriculture, Inc. 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

Rally Rights
Gettysburg Borough awards arrested protester $22,500 civil rights settlement.

Infant Formula From China
FDA Warns it May be Contaminated Melamine

FDA
Life-Threatening Complications Associated with Recombinant Human Bone Graft Products