South Korea's innovations in data privacy principles: Asian comparisons

Over the last two decades, at least a dozen Asian jurisdictions have adopted significant data privacy (or ‘data protection’) laws. South Korea started to implement such laws in relation to its public sector in the 1990s, then its private sector from 2001, culminating in the comprehensive Personal Information Privacy Act of 2011. Internationally, there have been two stages in the development of data privacy principles (the common core of such laws), the first typified by the OECD's data protection Guidelines of 1981, and the second typified by the European Union data protection Directive of 1995, with a third stage currently under development.     

发展南海海洋经济的政策规制和立法构思

发展海洋经济是实现我国“海洋强国”战略目标的根本要求.南海是我国发展海洋经济最具有潜力的海域,海南作为我国南海海洋资源开发和服务基地,处于发展南海海洋经济的最前沿.目前,海南省已结合南海发展海洋经济的实际情况,制定出台了相应的产业政策措施.建议海南省制定有关发展南海海洋经济的地方法规,如制定《海南省促进海洋经济产业发展条例》、《海南省三沙海域岛礁建设管理规定》和《海南省促进南海资源开发和服务基地建设管理办法》等地方法规,以促进南海海洋经济的发展.     

南海渔业知识产权保护问题研究

南海渔业知识产权保护中存在着渔业知识产权保护意识不强、缺乏渔业地理标志、商标保护、立法不够完善、行政保护制度及司法保护欠缺等一系列问题。应当从加强渔业知识产权相关法律法规的普及宣传、实行地理标志知识产权保护、完善渔业知识产权立法及鱼种新品种权的保护、加强行政与司法保护及二者衔接等方面完善南海渔业知识产权的保护,以求促进南海现代渔业经济的发展、渔民民生的改善及维护国家的利益。     

Building Capacity

正Chinese companies in Africa are improving infrastructure and benefiting local communities Rashidat Aweda finds there are a lot of positives to her working relationship with employer Huawei.From the spacious office environment and friendly colleagues,to the consideration,respect and training the Chinese information and communications technology(ICT)solutions provider gives every employee,Aweda appreciates the growth opportunities Huawei has provided her.     

Africa-Style Small Town

正Designed to promote African culture and art,Africa-style Small Town exhibits Tanzanian Makonde sculptures,Zambian copperplate etching and masks from Malawi,amongst others.Facilities:a studio,conference room,exhibition space,a coffee shop and exhibit zone for imported African products Address:Songzhuang Xiaopu Artist Village,Tongzhou District,Beijing E-mail:dongqixin23@gmail.com     

A Treasure Map

正Forum held in Fuzhou discusses the revival of the ancient maritime Silk Road In ancient China,merchants shipped porcelain,tea,silk and other fine and precious commodities from southeast coastal ports to far-flung destinations in Southeast Asia Europe and even Africa along the maritime     

The Myth of the ‘Land-Grab'

正False reports of large-scale Chinese land acquisition in Africa highlight the flimsy evidence behind recent China-bashing China’s rapid rise has generated mixed feelings the world over,and nowhere do emotions run higher than in the debate over farmland ownership.Population growth,urbanization and higher consumer spending in China are major drivers of growth in the agro-food products industry,     

Invisible Labour: The Political Economy of Reintegration in South Sudan

This article considers the 2005–12 Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) programme in South Sudan. Current DDR practice centres on ex-combatants' reintegration through encouraging entrepreneurship and self-employment and thereby their willingness to take risks and responsibility. However, South Sudan's DDR programme invisibilizes and obscures the ex-combatants' endogenous capacity to adapt and generate an income. Based on in-depth interviews with participants of the DDR programme and key stakeholders, the article argues that DDR interventions seldom capture the labour market experience of demobilized combatants. The article concludes that self-employment is the solution to the process of reintegration, empowerment and ultimately a key to statebuilding.     

Corporate power,US drug enforcement and the repression of indigenous peoples in Latin America

Abstract

The question that motivates this article is: what are the mechanisms through which the prosecution of the drug war in Latin America lead to human rights repression? In answering this question, I theorise that drug enforcement is a coalition of actors that facilitates domestic and international consensus around prohibition as a mechanism for corporate expansion. Drug war infrastructure financing is likely to facilitate the expansion of corporate investments by resource-seeking industries that require greater land use, which encroaches on the ancestral territories of indigenous peoples. And, in response to indigenous resistance to corporate appropriation of ancestral lands, resource-seeking transnational corporations will collude with private security firms and paramilitary organisations to repress and eliminate indigenous resistance. In the process of accumulating capital in Latin America, transnational corporations, domestic security, and paramilitary organizations are the drug enforcement coalition’s mediators of terror.