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Malaysia held the ninth Sarawak state election on May 20, 2006. It has invited various issues such as native customary rights land development, fuel hike and Chief Minister successor issue. Barisan Nasional won 62 of the 71 seats. The result was seen as a shock because BN failed to maintain the big mandate given from the previous election which was 60 of the 62 seats contested. The opposition meanwhile won 9 seats, reflecting new voting attitudes among the voters. This article examines the election issues and their performance in the election. This article also discusses the factors that influenced the voting patterns and the implications in the future. It is drawn from a 14 days fieldwork since nomination day, throughout election campaign period and polling day in May 2006.
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Although 19th century America offers a natural experiment in government accounting practices and voluminous original records still exist, a review of the literature on the period's state and local government accounting finds few secondary articles and almost no contemporary literature before 1875. After that, reformers, decrying the municipal accounting practices of their time, wrote profusely so that some secondary studies of that literature exist. The governmental financial records of the 1800s varied in quality from excellent to scandalous and would, if properly sampled and described, not only fill the gaps in our knowledge of 19th century government accounting and fiscal policy, but would also allow study of the causes and effects of many alternative measurement and reporting struct...
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Date: 20031223
Docket: T-60-03
Citation: 2003 FC 1517
Ottawa, Ontario, Tuesday, this 23 rd day of December, 2003
PRESENT: MADAM PROTHONOTARY MIREILLE...
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This paper argues that states have undergone a shift in how they see and respond to human smuggling. They are now less bound by those land borders that once demarcated the edges of sovereign territory and act more transnationally in response to the transnational practices of human smugglers. The interception of four cargo boats carrying migrants smuggled from Fujian, China, serves as a case study. Central to understanding the struggle between smugglers and States are geography and vision: how each sees the landscape, plays on distance and proximity, and puts geography to work. After explaining the methodology, I locate Canada in the global industries of human smuggling and border enforcement, outline changes to border enforcement that have taken place in the time since these interceptio...
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Kuwait Airways Corp. v. Iraq, 2010 SCC 40
The Supreme Court of Canada recently released a very important, and no less interesting, unanimous decisi...
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It appears now to be a truism that globalization is the hallmark of our contemporary era. Globalization is said to be ushering in important changes in...
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After almost 10 years of substantial international efforts at nation-building in Afghanistan, the prospects of achieving a functioning, democratically...
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In 2009 the Library of Parliament commissioned the author to conduct a study about the state of academic research on the Parliament of Canada over the...
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Poisoned for Profit: How Toxins Are Making Our Children Chronically III,
Philip and Alice Shabecoff, White River Jet., Vermont: Chelsea Green Publis...