The following is a guest post by Pichrotanak Bunthan, a legal research fellow with the Law Library of Congress, who is working under the supervision of Sayuri Umeda, a foreign law specialist covering Japan and other jurisdictions in East and Southeast Asia. History and Background of Higher Education in Cambodia Cambodia’s education system, including legal education, had …
The top legislative body of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the National People’s Congress (NPC), is now in session. This is the fourth session of the current 12th NPC. Having almost 3,000 deputies, the NPC full congress meets only once a year, pursuant to the PRC Constitution (art. 61). They usually meet in March …
Today is the New Year’s Day on the Chinese lunar calendar (阴历, also known as the “rural calendar” (农历)). As explained in my previous blog post, Happy Lunar New Year!, the New Year’s Day falls on a different day each year. Starting February 8, 2016, this is the Year of the Monkey — which, of …