474 ABA Journal Asia articles.
A Microsoft lawyer who battles illegal copies of the company’s software sees “a real milestone” in yesterday’s seizure of more than $500 million worth of Chinese-made counterfeits.
The FBI and…
Jul 25, 2007 2:56 PM CDT
In addition to Pakistan’s suspended top judge, two sisters, both attorneys and longtime political activists, are among the emerging leaders in a lawyer-led movement to promote judicial independence and a…
Jul 19, 2007 12:04 AM CDT
The widow of a Wall Street Journal reporter abducted and murdered in Pakistan by terrorists in 2002 has sued his alleged killers, al-Qaida, and Pakistan’s biggest bank in federal court…
Jul 18, 2007 10:21 PM CDT
A suicide bomb blast today at a Pakistan rally for lawyers supporting the country’s embattled chief justice has killed at least 12 people.
Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry was not…
Jul 17, 2007 9:07 PM CDT
Broadening its expansion into Asia, a major Philadelphia firm has announced it will open two offices in Vietnam.
Duane Morris, a business firm with an attorney roster of 650, announced…
Jul 13, 2007 6:38 PM CDT
It isn’t just data entry, computer programming and some legal work that’s being outsourced to India these days.
Infertile couples from the U.S. and other foreign countries are now paying…
Jul 12, 2007 10:37 PM CDT
China has executed the former director of its Food and Drug Administration for taking bribes to approve medicines.
Zheng Xiaoyu was convicted of taking cash and gifts worth more than…
Jul 10, 2007 1:22 PM CDT
Shearman & Sterling has opened a third office in China.
The new location in Shanghai is the firm’s 20th office worldwide, the New York Law…
Jul 10, 2007 1:10 PM CDT It has been some 30 years since thousands of banana workers in Central America claim to have been exposed to carcinogenic pesticides on plantations there. Intended to kill worms infesting…
Jul 9, 2007 6:00 PM CDT A second Chinese food and drug official has been sentenced to death for accepting bribes from medical companies seeking approval for their products. The sentence against Cao Wenzhuang, a department…
Jul 6, 2007 3:19 PM CDT Long reputed as a haven for employers who engage in labor practices considered abusive in many countries, China appears to be on the verge of enforcing stringent new standards–particularly against…
Jul 2, 2007 9:36 PM CDT In a setback to efforts by Pakistan’s president to remove permanently from office the country’s top judge, the Pakistan Supreme Court has barred intelligence officers from ongoing hearings and ordered…
Jul 2, 2007 5:47 PM CDT Sun Sets on British Empire Jul 1, 2007 9:00 PM CDT It isn’t just the California National Guard that may have had at least a peripheral involvement in an alleged California-based plot to overthrow the communist government of Laos.” “Officials said…
Jun 7, 2007 5:37 PM CDT The Legal System Will Play a Key Role in Planning the Response to a Possible Onslaught of the Virus Nov 1, 2005 1:55 AM CSTFirst Banana Workers Get US Court Trial
China Drug Official Gets Death
New China Labor Rules to be Enforced?
Pakistan’s Top Court to be Swept for Bugs
July 1, 1997
More American Officials in Laos Plot?
The Avian Flu Time Bomb
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