Indian Penal Code (1860 ) Section 299 to 377 ..

        Criminal law  is the  body  of  Law  that  relates  to   Cnime  . It  regulate  social  conduct  and  proscribes  threatening  ,  harming  , or  endangering  the  health  , safety and  moral  welfare  of  people  .   It  includes  the  punishment  of   people  who   violate  these   Laws  .    
        Objectives of  criminal  law                                                         
Criminal law is distinctive for the uniquely serious potential consequences or sanctions for failure to abide by its rules.^[7] Every crime is composed of criminal elements. Capital punishment may be imposed in some jurisdictions for the most serious crimes. Physical or corporal punishment may be imposed such as whipping or caning, although these punishments are prohibited in much of the world. Individuals may be incarcerated in prison or jail in a variety of conditions depending on the jurisdiction. Confinement may be solitary. Length of incarceration may vary from a day to life. Government supervision may be imposed, including house arrest, and convicts may be required to conform to particularized guidelines as part of a parole or probation regimen. Fines also may be imposed, seizing money or property from a person convicted of a crime.
Five objectives are widely accepted for enforcement of the criminal law by punishments: retribution, deterrence, incapacitation, rehabilitation and restoration.

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The four states of mind recognized as constituting "malice" are:

1. Intent to kill,
2. Intent to inflict grievous bodily harm short of death,
3. Reckless indifference to an unjustifiably high risk to human life (sometimes described as an "abandoned and malignant heart"), or
4. Intent to commit a dangerous felony (the "felony-murder" doctrine).

Under state of mind (i), intent to kill, the deadly weapon rule applies. Thus, if the defendant intentionally uses a deadly weapon or instrument against the victim, such use authorizes a permissive inference of intent to kill. In other words, "intent follows the bullet." Examples of deadly weapons and instruments include but are not limited to guns, knives, deadly toxins or chemicals or gases and even vehicles when intentionally used to harm a victim.

The U.S. Magitsky Act , The Russia Law and The Human Rights conflict .

                    I   have   seen   the   appearance  of   the   cold  war   which  will   be  repeated    in  the  21st  century  between   the  U.S  and  Russia  .  Please !   Be  patient  to  solve  the   problems  calmly  . 
  
Earlier this month the US Congress adopted the Magnitsky Act, prompting Russia's retaliation. The EU has also criticised Russia over its handling of the case.
Mr Putin signed the Russian law after it had been approved by the Russian parliament.
He told officials he saw no reason not to sign it, and said he would sign a presidential decree to "modify the support mechanisms for orphaned children".
"There are lots of places in the world where living standards are higher than they are here," Mr Putin said.
"Are we going to send all our children there? Perhaps we should move there ourselves?"

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Capital Punishment in the U.K. and Ma Never vowed to end " Dead Penalty " .

                       Taiwan  should  study  about  the   capital  punishment
  in  the   United  Kingdom  which  was  the  world's  first  industrialised   country  and   the  world's  foremost  powerful  country  during  the  19th   and  early  20th  centuries .  It   has   been  a  member  of   the  European  Union  , a  member  of  the   Commonwealth  of   Nations  , the   council   of  Europe  ,   the  G7,  the  G8 ,  the   G20 ,   the  N.A.T.O. ,   the  O.E.C.D   and  the   W.T.O . 
                   I  don't  know   about  the  nine  members   of  M.O.J's  capital  penlty  abolishment  group  resignation  whether  only  for  their  accusation  or  the benefit of  the   people  of  Taiwan  . 
             Public  support  for   reintroduction  of   Capital  Punishment  .    A November 2009 television survey showed that 70% favoured reinstating the death penalty for at least one of the following crimes: armed robbery, rape, crimes related to paedophilia, terrorism, adult murder, child murder, child rape, treason, child abuse, or kidnapping. However, respondents only favoured capital punishment for adult murder, the polling question asked by other organisations such as Gallup, by small majorities or pluralities: overall, 51% favoured the death penalty for adult murder, while 56% in Wales did, 55% in Scotland, and only 49% in England.^[45]
In August 2011, the Internet blogger Paul Staines—who writes a political blog as Guido Fawkes and heads the Restore Justice Campaign—launched an e-petition on the Downing Street website calling for the restoration of the death penalty for those convicted of the murder of children and police officers.^[46] The petition was one of several in support or opposition of capital punishment to be published by the government with the launch of its e-petitions website. As of 12 August, an e-petition calling to retain the ban on capital punishment has received 20,000 votes,^[47] 17,000 more than the e-petition calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty.^[48] Petitions attracting 100,000 signatures would prompt a parliamentary debate on a particular topic, but not necessarily lead to any Parliamentary Bills being put forward.^[49]
Also in August 2011, a representative survey conducted by Angus Reid Public Opinion showed that 65% of Britons support reinstating the death penalty for murder in Great Britain, while 28% oppose this course of action. Men and respondents aged over 35 are more likely to endorse the change.^[50]

   
 

N. Korea's rocket could reach the U.S.

                    Don't   repeat   the  Korean   War   which  should   be   as   a   lesson  in  the   world   history  .  The  U.S  should  try  to   give  up   the   interest  of   the  Korean  Pennisula  and   give  a  chance   to   open  dialouge   for  Korean  reunification  .  God  bless   with   you  ! 

North Korea's recent rocket launch shows it has the ability to fire a rocket more than 10,000km (6,200 miles), South Korean officials say.

The estimate, which would potentially put the Western US in range, was based on an analysis of rocket debris.
However, there was no confirmation that the North had the re-entry technology needed to deliver a missile.
Experts believe North Korea is also years away from gaining the ability to mount a nuclear bomb on a missile.
North Korea launched the Unha-3 rocket on 12 December, in defiance of sanctions and international warnings.
It was the first time the North had made successful use of a three-stage rocket to put a satellite into orbit, and observers said it appeared to mark a step towards fielding an intercontinental range ballistic missile.
"As a result of analysing the material of Unha-3 (North Korea's rocket), we judged North Korea had secured a range of more than 10,000km in case the warhead is 500-600kg," a South Korean defence ministry official told journalists.

            Take  a  lesson   from  the   Korea   War  ,   the   German  Reunification   and   the   Vietnam  War  .  Please !   enlarge  the   following  piece  of  note  to   know  about   the   three war   after   World  War  Two  .

The question of Medical Parole for Chen , the former President of The R.O.C.

                       Jerome  Cohen ,   Ma's  former  professor  at   Harvard  Univercity   paid  a  courtery  call  to   Chen  at   Taipei  Veterans  General  Hospital  . Cohen  began  to   discuss  Chen's  case   for   medical  parole  .   There   is   another  coercive manner  to Ma  Ying-jeou , the  President  of   R.O.C. which  has  no   dipromatic  relation   with   the   U.S. 
                    The  D.P.P.  often   uses  some   foreigners  to  perform  its   activity  for   Chen's   medical   parole  .  I   don't  know   whether  the   D.P.P.  is    becoming  under  the  control   of   some  foreigners  ,   the  pupet  political  party  from  other  country  or   not  !  Would    D.P.P. sell   out  Taiwan  to  Whom   ?   
                Medical  parole  or   compassionate  release  is   a   Criminal    Justice  ,  which  based  on   urgent   humanitarian  reasons  or   if   there  is  a  significant public  benefit  . 
            Ma Ying-jeou  responded  that  Chen  has  not  yet   qualified for  medical   parole  . 

Taipei, Dec. 19 (CNA) The government is still assessing the health of imprisoned former President Chen Shui-bian and has not yet decided whether to extend his three-month medical leave, a justice official said Wednesday. A complete official report on Chen's health is not yet available, therefore, the Justice Ministry cannot make a decision on the leave, said Wu Sen-chang, director of the ministry's Agency of Correction. The former president, who is serving a 18.5-year term for corruption, has been diagnosed with various health conditions, including severe depression, benign enlargement of the prostate, and urinary tract and prostate infections, according to Taipei Veterans General Hospital where he has been hospitalized since Sept. 21. His medical leave from Taipei Prison is scheduled to end this week. Legislator Hsu Tain-tsair of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party said Chen should be transferred to a hospital ward that specializes in the treatment of chronic diseases. It is not the right time to send Chen back to the prison, Hsu said in a legislative session. In response, Deputy Minister of Justice Chen Shou-huang said the relevant government agency is dealing with the issue. The ministry's stance is that Chen Shui-bian can remain in hospital once he needs treatment but the final decision will be made on the basis of professional assessments, the deputy minister said. (By Kelvin Huang and Kendra Lin)

 

               

    

A Taiwanese Student's U.N. Act ; as an Activist .

                    Chang  Liang-yi  is  an  activist  of   clearing  the   Taiwan  Identity   or   the   Taiwan   International   Status  .   It   is   a   freedom   of   a   Taiwanese's   Express  .    Lee   Teng-hui  and  Chen  Shui-bian  ,  the   former  Presidents   of   R.O.C. made   many   activities   or   movements  to   activate  Taiwan  Independence   Supporters  .   But   they   lost   the   way   after   the   Anti-secession   Law  ( 2005 )  of  the   P.R.C.  as   an  evidence   of   hostile  intent  which  has  the  relation   with  the  Taiwan  relation  Act  ,    after  termination  of   the  U.S.-R.O.C. mutual   Defense  Treaty .

                 Please!  Take  care  the  Resolution  2758  in  October  1971,which   was   passed  by   the   U.N.  General  Assembly  :  


In October 1971, Resolution 2758 was passed by the UN General Assembly, expelling "the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek" and replacing the China seat on the Security Council (and all other UN organs) with delegates from the People's Republic of China. It declared that "the representatives of the Government of the People's Republic of China are the only lawful representatives of China to the United Nations" and thus do not regard the Republic of China as legitimately representing the whole of China.
Many attempts by the ROC to rejoin the UN, in recent years, have not made it past committee, under fierce opposition and threatened vetoes from the PRC. The recent resolutions have all emphasized that Resolution 2758, replacing the ROC with the PRC in 1971, only addressed the question of who should have China's seat in the UN rather than whether an additional seat for the Taiwan Area can be created to represent the 23 million people on Taiwan and the ROC's other islands. As of 2011, 22 UN member states and the Holy See officially recognize the Republic of China, as the PRC makes breaking ties with the ROC and recognizing the PRC as the sole legitimate government of China (including Taiwan) the prerequisite to establishing diplomatic relations with the PRC.
On less official terms, the ROC is involved in a complex dispute for control over the Spratly Islands with the PRC, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and possibly Brunei; and over the Paracel Islands, occupied by the PRC, but claimed by Vietnam and the ROC. The ROC claims the Japanese-administered Diaoyu Islands (which the Japanese call "Senkaku-shoto"), as does the PRC.

Argentine Mom rescues hundreds of Sex Slaves .

                  Mother's   Love  :  No  one   ,   No  Language    can  express  the   power  and   beauty  and   Heroism   and   majesty  of   a   Mother's  Love  . It  shrinks  not  when   man  cowers  and  grows   stronger   where  man  faints  ,   and   over   the  wastes  of   worldly  fortune   send  the   Radiance  of  its  quenchless  fidelity   like   Star  IN  Heaven  . ... 
                         E.H.  Charpin  . 

Argentine Mom Honored For Rescue Of Hundreds Of Sex Slaves

Posted: December 11, 2012

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Susana Trimarco was honored on Sunday night for the rescue of hundreds of female sex slaves over the last decade by Argentine President Cristine Fernandez with a human rights award. The ceremony was held in front of thousands of people in the Plaza de Mayo.
Trimarco’s daughter, Maria de los Angeles “Marita” Veron, went missing in 2002 when she never came back from a doctor’s appointment. After getting little help from the police, Trimarco began her own personal investigation to find her 23-year-old daughter after a tip from a taxi driver that he delivered Veron to a brothel where she was beaten and forced into prostitution.

What started as a one woman campaign became a movement that made Trimarco a hero to hundreds of women and girls that she helped rescue from sex trafficking. Her movement prompted the State Department to provide seed money for a foundation in Veron’s name. The foundation has rescued over 900 women and girls to date.
“I live for this,” the 58-year-old Trimarco told The Associated Press of her ongoing quest. “I have no other life, and the truth is, it is a very sad, very grim life that I wouldn’t wish on anyone.”
Veron left behind a three year old daughter, Micaela, who is now 13 years old and has been by her grandmother’s side through it all by contributing to publicity campaigns against human trafficking and keeping her mother’s legacy alive. With her husband and Micaela in tow, Trimarco disguised herself as a recruiter of prostitutes and searched countless brothels searching for clues.
“For the first time, I really understood what was happening to my daughter,” she said. “I was with my husband and with Micaela, asleep in the backseat of the car because she was still very small and I had no one to leave her with.”
Aside from the human rights award from President Fernandez, Trimarco was also awarded with the “Women of Courage” award by the U.S. State Department and was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize on November 28.
Publicity over Trimarco’s efforts to find her daughter prompted Argentine Officials to make a high-profile example of her daughter’s case by putting 13 people on trial for the alleged kidnapping of Veron and holding her as a sex slave in a family-run operation of illegal brothels. A verdict is expected on Tuesday after a year long trial

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Calm heads must prevail in Islands row , Ex-U.S. official .

                             It  should  not  separate   Nationalism  from  the  Issue .          No  nationalism  -No  nation  !
                  No   nation- No  state  !
                 No  state - No  sovereignty  ! 
  I   don't  understand  Mr. Christopher  Hill  ,  said  that  , "It  is  important  to  separate  nationalism  from  the   issue  and   avoid  Zero-sum  that  is   a  complex  theory  in  which  a   participant's  gaines  or  losses  are  added  up  or  subtracted   ,   they   will  sum  to  Zero  .
             Would  you   give    a  lecture   for   our  Tiawanese  to   understand  it  ?   
          Would   you   mean  under   the   scope  of  the  Taiwan  Relation   Act  ?
         Would   you   need   an  assistant  professor  from  Taiwan  to  explain  about   the  Zero-sum   theory  ?  ........
       It   is   really  Sovereignty   Issue  which  should   be   placed  neither  the   19th  century  nor   the  21st   century  as  a   pre-fix  or   modifier  of   Sovereignty   to   define  .
    God   bless   with  you! 
 Read   the   following  News   :
        
TAIPEI - All countries involved in a recent row in the East China Sea should put aside sovereignty disputes to engage in rational dialogue for the benefit of all parties, a visiting former United States official said yesterday in Taipei.
"People should look at the issue (East China Sea row) not as a 19th-century sovereignty question ... rather it is an issue more of the 21st century," Christopher Hill, former assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs under the US State Department, said during an interview.
By declaring it a "21st century" issue, Hill said he was noting that the issue also involves the economic interests of all concerned parties as well as their rights to maritime passage.
Dealing with the issue solely from a sovereignty point of view is not feasible, he said, adding that it is better to try to break down the issue. He said it was important to calm peoples' emotions.
It is important to separate nationalism from the issue and avoid zero-sum thinking, Hill said, and focus instead on finding a "win-win" solution in a calm manner.
He said he has recently seen some hints of calm rationality prevailing but more needs to be done to prevent the issue from being mishandled.
Hill made the remarks when asked to comment on a recent row in the East China Sea over the disputed Diaoyutai Islands, which Japan calls the Senkaku Islands. Taiwan, China and Japan all lay claim to the island chain.
Hill, the incumbent dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, is visiting Taiwan on a six-day trip that is scheduled to conclude Monday.
The purpose of his visit is to gain a deeper understanding for a range of issues, including the development of Taiwan-US and cross-Taiwan Strait relations.
Hill served as assistant secretary between 2005 and 2009. He has also served as US Ambassador to Iraq, South Korea and Poland.
TAIPEI - All countries involved in a recent row in the East China Sea should put aside sovereignty disputes to engage in rational dialogue for the benefit of all parties, a visiting former United States official said yesterday in Taipei.
"People should look at the issue (East China Sea row) not as a 19th-century sovereignty question ... rather it is an issue more of the 21st century," Christopher Hill, former assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs under the US State Department, said during an interview.
By declaring it a "21st century" issue, Hill said he was noting that the issue also involves the economic interests of all concerned parties as well as their rights to maritime passage.
Dealing with the issue solely from a sovereignty point of view is not feasible, he said, adding that it is better to try to break down the issue. He said it was important to calm peoples' emotions.
It is important to separate nationalism from the issue and avoid zero-sum thinking, Hill said, and focus instead on finding a "win-win" solution in a calm manner.
He said he has recently seen some hints of calm rationality prevailing but more needs to be done to prevent the issue from being mishandled.
Hill made the remarks when asked to comment on a recent row in the East China Sea over the disputed Diaoyutai Islands, which Japan calls the Senkaku Islands. Taiwan, China and Japan all lay claim to the island chain.
Hill, the incumbent dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, is visiting Taiwan on a six-day trip that is scheduled to conclude Monday.
The purpose of his visit is to gain a deeper understanding for a range of issues, including the development of Taiwan-US and cross-Taiwan Strait relations.
Hill served as assistant secretary between 2005 and 2009. He has also served as US Ambassador to Iraq, South Korea and Poland.

GAOVERNMENTS should take action against corruption in every sector..

                    Try  hard  to  pick  up   Law   and   Order   enforcement   to   every  section  of  government    departments .     . 

                

Governments should hear the global outcry against corruption

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Posted 5 December 2012 by Transparency International Secretariat

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A growing outcry over corrupt governments forced several leaders from office last year, but as the dust has cleared it has become apparent that the levels of bribery, abuse of power and secret dealings are still very high in many countries. Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2012 shows corruption continues to ravage societies around the world.
Two thirds of the 176 countries ranked in the 2012 index score below 50, on a scale from 0 (perceived to be highly corrupt) to 100 (perceived to be very clean), showing that public institutions need to be more transparent, and powerful officials more accountable.
“Governments need to integrate anti-corruption actions into all public decision-making. Priorities include better rules on lobbying and political financing, making public spending and contracting more transparent and making public bodies more accountable to people,” said Huguette Labelle, the Chair of Transparency International.
“After a year of focus on corruption, we expect governments to take a tougher stance against the abuse of power. The Corruption Perceptions Index 2012 results demonstrate that societies continue to pay the high cost of corruption,” Labelle said.
Many of the countries where citizens challenged their leaders to stop corruption –from the Middle East to Asia to Europe – have seen their positions in the index stagnate or worsen.

Corruption Perceptions Index 2012: The results

In the Corruption Perceptions Index 2012 Denmark, Finland and New Zealand tie for first place with scores of 90, helped by strong access to information systems and rules governing the behaviour of those in public positions.
Afghanistan, North Korea and Somalia once again cling to the bottom rung of the index. In these countries the lack of accountable leadership and effective public institutions underscore the need to take a much stronger stance against corruption.
Underperformers in the Corruption Perceptions Index 2012 also include the Eurozone countries most affected by the financial and economic crisis. Transparency International has consistently warned Europe to address corruption risks in the public sector to tackle the financial crisis, calling for strengthened efforts to corruption-proof public institutions.
“Corruption is the world’s most talked about problem,” stated Cobus de Swardt, Managing Director of Transparency International. “The world’s leading economies should lead by example, making sure that their institutions are fully transparent and their leaders are held accountable. This is crucial since their institutions play a significant role in preventing corruption from flourishing globally,” de Swardt said.




        

Israeli settlement expansion sets back peace .

                    The   Palestinian  President  Mahmoud  Abbas   addressed  ,  the  general  assembly  on  27  September  and   he   said  ,  he   realised  that  "  Progress  toward  making  peace  is   through  negotiations  between the   P.L.O.  and  Israel  "  ,    acknowdging  international   concerns   about  the   future  talks  ..........,   we  say  before   the   international  community  ,  there   is   still   a  chance  ,   ....   may   be   the   last   to   save  the   two-state   solution  and   to  salvage   peace  !  ......
If   Israeli   believe  it   the  conflict  in  the   middle-east   will   be  resolved  as   I  think  .   Don't   make  searching   fire  again   each   other  .   God   bless   with  you  ! 


Britain and France condemned a plan by Israel to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, saying international confidence in its desire to make peace with the Palestinians was at risk, Reuters reported.

Stung by a UN vote according de facto recognition to a Palestinian state, Israel on Friday said it would build thousands of new settler homes, including in a wedge zone between Jerusalem and the West Bank, known as E1, which Washington considers especially sensitive.

The United States, one of just eight countries to vote alongside Israel against the Palestinians at the U.N. General Assembly, said the latest expansion plan was counterproductive to any resumption of direct peace talks stalled for two years.

France, which voted with the Palestinians, and Britain, which abstained, had tougher censure for Israel, which wants to keep all of Jerusalem and swathes of West Bank settlements under any future peace accord. Most powers view the settlements as illegal for taking in land captured in the 1967 Middle East war.

"If implemented, these plans would alter the situation on the ground on a scale that makes the two-state solution, with Jerusalem as a shared capital, increasingly difficult to achieve," British Foreign Secretary William Hague said in a statement.

"They would undermine Israel's international reputation and create doubts about its stated commitment to achieving peace with the Palestinians."
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The struggle will continue in protest at the 22 November decree .

        Mr.  Morsi  has  said  a  referendum   on  the  draft  constitution  will  be held   on   15  December  . 

               'Struggle will continue'
The draft constitution was rushed through the constituent assembly on Thursday night.

Mr Morsi received a copy of the draft constitution on Saturday

After receiving a copy of the document on Saturday, Mr Morsi called on "all Egyptians" to take part in the referendum, whether or not they agreed with the draft.
"The world is looking at how Egyptians will build their institutions to establish their democratic system," the president said.
His announcement was hailed at a rally in Cairo on Saturday, with the crowds chanting, "The people support the president's decision!"
The draft constitution and the recent decree have prompted widespread protests by opponents.
Many anti-government activists remain camped out in Cairo's Tahrir Square.
"Morsi put to referendum a draft constitution that undermines basic freedoms and violates universal values. The struggle will continue," key opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei tweeted on Saturday.
If approved, the new text will overwrite all constitutional declarations - including Mr Morsi's decree - and a new parliament should be elected within 60 days.
Among the historic changes to Egypt's system of government, the draft limits a president to two four-year terms. It also introduces some civilian oversight of the military.
The draft keeps in place an article defining "principles of Sharia", or Islamic law, as the main source of legislation.
Mr Morsi's supporters point to the fact that he is Egypt's first freely elected president and argue that liberals and secularists do not represent the vast majority of Egyptians.
But the extent of Mr Morsi's new powers has raised fears that he might become a new dictator.

                  Would   you  see   the  Dictator  Charater  which  has  appeared  from   Mr.  Morsi  ?   How do  you  think   it  ?  God  bless   with   you  ! 

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New Chinese Passports Rile Asian Neighbors .

                      It  is  the   Notice   from   China   to   the   U.S.   that  ,  China   can  not   accept  pushing  the   ASEAN   countries  to   adopt   a  code  of  conduct   to    resolve  the   conflicts  of   the   disputed   islands
in  South   China   Sea  or   East  China  Sea  as  the  regional   issues  .
                 It   tries   to   clear  the   way  for  finding  out  the   solution  in  peaceful  mean  between  China   and  the  neighbouring  countries   which   have  the   relation  of   the  disputed  islands .

Kate Woodsome

November 23, 2012

Whenever a country issues new passports, someone almost always complains about the new design. But China's latest edition of travel logs is drawing formal criticism from countries across Asia.

The passports feature a map of China that includes areas of the South China Sea claimed by other countries, as well as territory claimed by India.

Taiwan's government objected to the passports Friday, following similar protests by the Philippines and Vietnam. Officials at the Indian Embassy in Beijing are protesting in their own way, stamping Chinese visas with a map showing the disputed territory belonging to India, according to The Press Trust of India.

John Blaxland, with the Strategic and Defense Studies Center at Australian National University, called China's move "pretty clever."

"It basically forces everyone who's a claimant of South China Sea elements to acknowledge it by stamping it," he said.

As China's military and economic influence has grown throughout the world, Beijing has become more brazen in its claim to territories believed to be rich with oil and natural gas across the Asia-Pacific.

China’s Foreign Ministry said the “nine-dash” map of the sea printed in the new passports wasn’t targeted at any specific countries.

Blaxland described China’s move as part of a "long game" being played by a new generation of leaders who will steer the country for the next 10 years.

"We've just seen a major transition in China … They can act deliberately and slowly, and slowly get their way. There's really not very much anyone is seriously prepared to do about it," he said.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations discussed the territorial disputes at a summit in Cambodia earlier this week but failed to achieve a united stand on how the 10 member countries should respond to China.

Carl Thayer, a professor emeritus at the University of New South Wales, said the map in China’s new passports may partly be in response to Vietnam’s passage earlier this year of a Law of the Sea. The law asserts Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Spratly and Paracel islands, which are claimed by both Hanoi and Beijing.

“It's just finding one more way of turning the screw that China has jurisdiction,” Thayer said.

Although Vietnam, Taiwan and the Philippines have been most vocal in their opposition to China’s moves, Brunei and Malaysia also have rival claims in the South China Sea, and Japan is embroiled in its own dispute over islands in the East China Sea. All the territorial spats have raised concerns about a potential maritime conflict, prompting the United States to wade into the controversy.

The Obama administration says it is not taking sides but is pushing for the countries to adopt a code of conduct, which China opposes.

Blaxley said the United States wants to secure its freedom of navigation in the region.

 

Combating International Corruption .

                         It  has   the   most   relation  with  the   Morality  and   Moral   Courage  which  I   have   been   noted   from a  book  of   quotations  over  thirty   years   ago  as   the   following  : 
                  Moral  Courage  ; It  is   that   characterises  the   highest  order   of   Manhood   and  Womanhood  ....the   courage   to   seek  and  to   speak   the   truth  ,   the   courage  to  be   just  ;  the   courage   to   be   honest   ;   the   corrage   to      resist   temptation  ;  the   courage  to  do   one's  duty  .  If  Men   and   Women  do   not   possess  this   virtue   ,   they   have  no  security  whatever  for   the  preservation  of   any  other  . .....  (  Samuel   Smiles   )  .   God   bless   with   you   !  

Global level playing field

Bribery and corruption are a barrier to trade and hamper development around the world. Foreign bribery is actively prosecuted in some countries, most notably Denmark, Germany, Italy, Norway, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the United States.

The UK is contributing through the OECD Working Group on Bribery International Business Transactions, the UN Convention Against Corruption and the G20 anti-corruption working group to increasing global awareness, enforcement and investigation of foreign bribery. This has recently resulted in both China and Russia criminalising foreign bribery and in improved enforcement by Australia and Canada, bringing their first and second foreign bribery prosecutions respectively

Practical advice and tools

BIS sponsors a free guidance website on managing the risks of international corruption, aimed at small and medium enterprises in particular. BIS also negotiated a 2010 a good practice guide to corporate anti-bribery procedures by the Organisation for Economic and Corporate Development (OECD)
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That is ASEAN's way .

                  The   U.S  should   drop  the  conduct   of   coercion  method  to  perform  in   the    international  community  ,  as  the   most   powerful  in   the   world  .  We  can  see   that , during  the   two   days   annual  summit    of  the   ASEAN   Phnon  Penh. 

The  ASEAN'S  way.
                 
HONG KONG — Southeast Asian leaders have failed — again — to make any headway on resolving the dangerous territorial disputes over various islands in the South China Sea.
At their regional summit meeting this week, they could not even agree to set up a crisis hotline. Even bitter enemies like North and South Korea have a cross-border hot line — three, in fact.
The meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or Asean, adjourned amid infighting and acrimony on Tuesday with Cambodia, the host nation, appearing to derail efforts at establishing a maritime code of conduct.
A binding code of conduct has been on the Asean agenda for more than a decade, and the group has blown its 2012 deadline. Riven by factionalism, the group seems to have no clear way forward, despite increasing tensions over several implacable territorial disputes.
The Spratly island group, the Paracel islands and a tiny atoll near the Philippines known as the Scarborough Shoal are claimed by various Asean countries, claims that overlap those of China, which said in June that the islands are “indisputably” Chinese territory.
Although not one of Asean’s 10 members, China counts Cambodia as a key ally and holds tremendous leverage in the region through its economic might, diplomatic clout and an increasingly muscular military.
China has long opposed what is known as an “internationalized” approach to drafting a code of conduct for the South China Sea — that is, any approach that would include the United States. And while Asean dithers on drafting its own overarching code, Beijing prefers to hold bilateral negotiations on its island disputes with each individual claimant.
Asean has never been very efficient at making policy, nor has it been very good at policing its own members, in part because of the so-called “Asean Way,” which prohibits members from interfering in each other’s domestic affairs. Myanmar, for example, after joining Asean in 1997, existed as a thuggish military regime with barely a word of reproach from its fellow members.
The group also requires a unanimous vote on any major decisions. A single dissenter among the group can block an otherwise-unanimous decision — effectively creating a hung jury. Landlocked Laos, therefore, will have just as much say over a maritime code as Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia or the Philippines.
Cambodia and its authoritarian prime minister, Hun Sen, are now solidly within Beijing’s political orbit, perhaps cajoled by more than half a billion dollars in Chinese loans, grants and gifts over the past three months. At recent Asean gatherings, Cambodia has appeared to act as a kind of Chinese proxy.
Chinese investment in Cambodia last year approached $2 billion, according to a report by Reuters — twice the combined total invested by fellow Asean countries and 10 times more than the United States.
Security analysts and regional leaders say that nasty maritime standoffs over the contested islands — due in part to a more assertive and far-reaching China — have made a code of conduct more necessary than ever.
A brushing incident at sea, for example, even an inadvertent collision, has the potential to rapidly escalate: One nation’s “bumping” is another’s “ramming.” As one Asean diplomat put it, such situations can get “a little tricky.”
Even so, the various claimants still have no collective way of communicating when such incidents occur. There’s no hotline, for example, to defuse tensions over a conflict at sea, such as the Vietnam-China skirmish over the Spratlys in 1988 in which 70 Vietnamese sailors were killed. And earlier this year a China-Philippines standoff at Scarborough Shoal dramatically raised regional tensions.
At the Asean meeting in Phnom Penh this week, Indonesia proposed the installation of a regional hot line as a practical, real-world safeguard while a formal Asean code of conduct is hashed out.
Marty Natelegawa, the Indonesian foreign minister, said that “in the future, should there be any incident of the type that we had, the ministers should be able to quickly pick up the phone and establish communication.”
Without a hot line, he said, “the risk of misunderstanding and miscalculation is bigger.”
Mr. Natelegawa said he got the general sense from other Asean members that the hot line could be “something important.”
But no action was taken.
That’s the Asean Way. 

The Gaza-Israel Violence is not a lesson for each other but for a future war in Middle-East .

                               It  is   an  incident  ,   Rockets  operation  of   searching   fire   between   Hamas   and  Israeli   to   find   out   the   strategy  of  next   middle-east  war .
                            There   was   also  an   unwritten  code  of   conduct    regarding  civilians    and  civilians'   properties  which   would   be   seen  .     I   think   ,    the   ceasefire   will   be   agreed  before  the   Israeli  government  is   continuing  to   a   mass   force   ground   invasion   .   God   bless   with   them  !   Amen  ! .
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Neither Hamas nor Israel have given any public indication they are close to agreeing to a cease-fire. Israel has continued to amass troops and armor on the Gaza border. It has called up 16,000 reservists so far, and the government has authorized the military to expand that number to 75,000 if need be.
There is deep mistrust between the longtime foes. In Gaza, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said Saturday that Hamas was unlikely to believe any Israeli cease-fire pledges even if they came. Hamas and Egypt both say that Israel indicated it was close to agreeing to a cease-fire on Monday—two days before launching the current offensive. Israel peace mediator Gershon Baskin, who helped negotiate the deal that led to the release of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit last year, said publicly Thursday that the two sides were close to a cease-fire agreement when the Israeli offensive started.
"The Israelis claim that they are ready to make a truce," Mr. Zuhri said. "The last truce they claimed is a good example: They are liars. They targeted Abu Muhammad el-Jabari as soon as they agreed with the Egyptian side on the truce. Talking about a truce is another Israeli trap. Their target is to get more time for targeting the Palestinian resistance."
Israeli officials said those cease-fire talks were being conducted by third parties, independent of the government. While officials were aware of the talks, the government wasn't involved and never agreed to anything.
Israel on Saturday pummeled political targets throughout the Gaza Strip, including the office of Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.
Israeli's top military spokesman, Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, said Israeli bombs had also struck Hamas's police headquarters and its homeland-security building in Gaza City, the main city in the coastal Palestinian enclave. It also targeted a number of commanders from Hamas's armed wing.
Israel's military said in a statement that in the early hours of Saturday it had struck "over 200 targets" including "120 underground rocket launchers and more than 20 smuggling tunnels" on the coastal enclave's border with Israel. But the pace of attacks largely tapered off as the day wore on.

     

Panetta to tout U.S. shift to Asia .

                It  is  the  U.S.   STRATGIC   of  the   control  all  over  the  Asia-Pacific  Region   as   to  contain  or  trap  the  China's   growing  economic  and  military  power .  It   will   be  separated  in   East   China  Sea  , in  South   China  Sea  at  the   core  of   Okinawa  Force   and  Asia   Region  ,  including  Russia  .  It  may  used   the  power  of   coercion   over    its  allies  in  opportunity  incident .   How   do   you  think   ? 
God  bless  with   you  ! 

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta (left) reviews an honour guard during a ceremony prior to a meeting Thai counterpart Sukampol Suwannathat in Bangkok on Friday. Photo: AP

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta will outline Washington’s strategic shift to the Pacific and a tentative rapprochement with Myanmar when he meets Friday with his Asian counterparts at a conference in Cambodia, officials said.
Wrapping up a week-long tour of Southeast Asia that comes before President Barack Obama visits the region next week, Panetta will join 10 fellow defence ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in the Cambodian resort of Siem Reap.
In his talks, Panetta is expected to discuss America’s careful steps toward reopening ties with Myanmar’s military as well as Washington’s bid to “rebalance” to the Asia-Pacific.
The US tilt to Asia as well as warming relations with Myanmar reflect a concerted effort by the Obama administration to assert American influence in the face of China’s growing economic and military might.
Next week, Obama will be the first sitting US president to visit Cambodia as well as Myanmar, following a series of dramatic political changes in a country emerging from decades of military rule.
A senior US defence official told reporters travelling with Panetta that the United States was open to reviving military ties with Myanmar, but that the Pentagon would proceed at a deliberate pace.
US officials are considering cooperating with Myanmar’s armed forces on non-lethal programmes focused on military medicine, education and disaster relief exercises.
The activities would be “limited in scope” at the outset, the official added. “We’ll grow as appropriate over time. We need to see reform, we need to see continued progress.”
The overtures to Myanmar’s leaders are a source of concern for China, as Myanmar – along with North Korea – had remained firmly in Beijing’s orbit and off-limits to the Americans until now, analysts and officials said.
“From China’s perspective, enhancing US-Burma [Myanmar] security ties takes on greater significance because it was one of the few countries in China’s periphery that Beijing had a near monopoly on military, economic, and diplomatic relations,” Andrew Scobell, an expert at the US-based RAND Corporation think tank, said.
In his discussions in Cambodia, Panetta also is expected to renew US appeals for a peaceful, multilateral resolution of territorial disputes in the South China Sea and East China, which have tended to pit China against its neighbours over potentially resource-rich waters.
“We continue to be closely monitoring both the situations in the South China sea and the East China Sea,” said the senior defence official.
“Our message is going to be consistent with what we’ve said in the past, which is we don’t take sides, we want these disputes solved peacefully in accordance with international law but we do take issue with coercion,” the defence official said.
On Thursday, Panetta signed a “joint vision” statement in Bangkok reaffirming the US-Thailand military alliance for what he called a new era

Syria on fire as opposition urged to expand

                               I  have   some  notes   to  know  about   the   new  opposition   group  ,  the   National  Coalittion  alliance  as   the   following   :           
For   one  and  a   hale  to   two  years  we   have  paid   blood   for    our  freedom......,  If   they  do   something   we  can   see   on  the   ground   (  in  Syria  )   ,   that  is   better  than  sitting  outside  the   country  in   hotels  ,  eating  and   drinking  ,   while  we   are   here  dying  everyday  ,    said  Abu  Osama ,a  40  years  old  rebel   manning  a  check  point  close  to  the   Syria  -Turkish  boder .  I   think  ,  they   don't   want  the   puppet  opposition   alliance  in   exile  which  has  no  relation  with   them  . 
    

Syria clashes rage as opposition urged to expand

The Gulf Cooperation Council said its six members recognised the National Coalition as "the Syrian people's legitimate representative", and the Arab League also gave its backing.
The 22-member League, however, stopped short of granting the bloc full recognition, stating only that it saw the alliance as "the legitimate representative of the Syrian opposition".
It called on the rest of the opposition to join, and urged regional and international groups to recognise it as a legitimate representative of the Syrian people's aspirations.
EU foreign ministers meeting at the League's headquarters in Cairo took a similar stance, welcoming but declining to recognise the alliance while calling on it to bring in more regime opponents.
"It is a very important milestone and a very big step towards (recognition)," British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on the sidelines of the EU-Arab gathering.
The Europeans wanted to ensure the deal was implemented, and to see that the coalition is "as as possible of opposition groups and all communities in Syria," he said.
Rebel fighters in Syria dismissed the Gulf and Western support for the new alliance, expecting little to change on the ground unless they get cash and weapons.
"For one-and-a-half to two years, we've paid blood for our freedom. People have left their homes and die here every day and no one cares," said Abu Osama, a 40-year-old rebel manning a checkpoint close to the Syrian-Turkish border.
"If they do something we can see on the ground, that's better than sitting outside the country in hotels, eating and drinking while we're here dying every day," Abu Osama told AFP.
International rights groups said, however, that the opposition's new leadership must act to monitor and curb any violations of international law by the rebels.
"Syria’s newly created opposition front should send a clear message to opposition fighters that they must adhere to the laws of war and human rights law, and that violators will be held accountable," said Human Rights Watch.

Vatican digs in after Gay Marriage advances.

It   will   challenge  the   U.S. civilization .  Gay-Marriage  is  not   a  political   issue  but  the  issue  of   a  civilization . Legalization  is  not   only   come   from  our   politicians .  God  bless  with  you  !


The Vatican's anti-gay marriage media blitz came after three U.S. states approved same-sex marriage by popular vote in the election that returned Barack Obama to the U.S. presidency, Spain upheld its gay marriage law, and France pushed ahead with legislation that could see gay marriage legalized early next year.
"One might say the church, at least on this front, has been defeated," L'Osservatore Romano wrote. "But that's not the case."
The article insisted that Catholics were putting up a valiant fight to uphold church teaching in the face of "politically correct ideologies invading every culture of the world" that are backed by institutions like the United Nations, which last year passed a non-binding resolution condemning anti-gay discrimination.
"The church is called to present itself as the lone critic of modernity, the only check ... to the breakup of the anthropological structures on which human society was founded," it said.
Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi, for his part, said gays can have their rights protected by means other than through legal marital recognition. He stressed that children should have a right to say they have a father and a mother.
"If not, then why not contemplate freely chosen polygamy, and naturally so as to not discriminate, polyandry?" he asked sarcastically. Polyandry is when a woman has two or more husbands.
"As a result, don't expect the church to stop insisting that society recognizes a specific place for marriage between a man and woman," he said.
The U.S. election had been closely watched at the Vatican because of the strong divisions that erupted during the campaign between the Obama administration and U.S. bishops over gay marriage, which Obama endorsed in May. The administration and bishops clashed more vehemently over Obama's health care mandate requiring nearly all U.S. health insurance plans to cover contraception, which the church opposes
Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/11/10/2362422/vatican-digs-in-after-gay-marriage.html#storylink=cpy

Tokyo , Washington to discuss revision of Defense Guidelines .

                       It   is   the  relation of   the    Japan- U.S. joint  Declaration   on   Security    Alliance  ,  17.April   1996  .   

  The  operation  capabilities  of   the   U.S.  FORCE   in   Asia-Pacific  will  be    mordified   by   bilateral   defense  treaties  with   Australia  , Japan  ,New -Zealand  , Philippine  and   South  Korea  and  cooperative  plans   with   other  partners  ,   such   as  Myanmar  , Vietnam  , Thailand  and   Taiwan  ...etc .  The   U.S.   will   trap   or   contain   the   P.R.C. along  with  engagement   and  confrontation  policy .  
This  note   from  Japan-U.S. joint  Declaration ,  17.4.1996.

REGIONAL COOPERATION

7. The Prime Minister and the President agreed that the two governments will jointly and individually strive to achieve a more peaceful and stable security environment in the Asia-Pacific region. In this regard, the two leaders recognized that the engagement of the United States in the region, supported by the Japan-U.S. security relationship, constitutes the foundation for such efforts.
The two leaders stressed the importance of peaceful resolution of problems in the region. They emphasized that it is extremely important for the stability and prosperity of the region that China play a positive and constructive role, and, in this context, stressed the interest of both countries in furthering cooperation with China. Russia's ongoing process of reform contributes to regional and global stability, and merits continued encouragement and cooperation. The leaders also stated that full normalization of Japan-Russia relations based on the Tokyo Declaration is important to peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region. They noted also that stability on the Korean Peninsula is vitally important to Japan and the United States and reaffirmed that both countries will continue to make every effort in this regard, in close cooperation with the Republic of Korea.
The Prime Minister and the President reaffirmed that the two governments will continue working jointly and with other countries in the region to further develop multilateral regional security dialogues and cooperation mechanisms such as the ASEAN Regional Forum, and eventually, security dialogues regarding Northeast Asia.

GLOBAL COOPERATION

8. The Prime Minister and the President recognized that the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security is the core of the Japan-U.S. Alliance, and underlies the mutual confidence that constitutes the foundation for bilateral cooperation on global issues.
The Prime Minister and the President agreed that the two governments will strengthen their cooperation in support of the United Nations and other international organizations through activities such as peacekeeping and humanitarian relief operations.
Both governments will coordinate their policies and cooperate on issues such as arms control and disarmament, including acceleration of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) negotiations and the prevention of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery. The two leaders agreed that cooperation in the United Nations and APEC, and on issues such as the North Korean nuclear problem, the Middle East peace process, and the peace implementation process in the former Yugoslavia, helps to build the kind of world that promotes our shared interests and values.

CONCLUSION

9. In concluding, the Prime Minister and the President agreed that the three legs of the Japan-U.S. relationship - security, political, and economic - are based on shared values and interests and rest on the mutual confidence embodied in the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security. The Prime Minister and the President reaffirmed their strong determination, on the eve of the twenty-first century, to build on the successful history of security cooperation and to work hand-in-hand to secure peace and prosperity for future generations.
April 17, 1996 Tokyo 

The Sexism or Misogany , is defined by Australia P.M.

                    No   need  to   commend  according   to   her   speech  in  the  Parliament  . 
               

Australian PM praised for speech

2012-11-07 09:07

(File, AFP)  

Sydney - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Wednesday that world leaders congratulated her at the Asia-Europe Meeting in Laos on her now famous misogyny speech, which went viral on the internet.
Gillard, the nation's first woman leader, made an aggressive speech in parliament last month accusing opposition leader Tony Abbott of misogyny and sexism, giving her a significant boost in opinion polls.
The speech was viewed by millions of people on YouTube and prompted a leading dictionary to broaden its definition of the word misogyny.
Gillard said she was pleasantly surprised at the reaction she received at the international summit which ended Tuesday in Vientiane, including from French President Francois Hollande and Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
"The president of France congratulated me on the speech, as did the prime minister of Denmark, and some other leaders, just casually as I've moved around, have also mentioned it to me," Gillard told ABC radio.
"So some approval here from some leaders at the Asia-Europe meeting."
A fired-up Gillard accused Abbott of hypocrisy in her speech, saying she had been offended by many of his remarks over the years and she would not be "lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man".
"I've had enough, Australian women have had enough. When I see sexism and misogyny I'm going to call them for what they are," she said.
Elections are due in Australia next year.