The 13th edition of the International Comparative Legal Guide to: Telecoms, Media & Internet Laws & Regulations  provides readers with an in-depth look at the quickly changing legal landscape surrounding the rapidly growing industries encapsulated by telecommunication, media, and internet laws across 27 jurisdictions, including the hot topics of cyber-security, data retention, and encryption.

While most employers understand what “unfair termination” means, many may be unfamiliar with the term “unfair labor practice” and what it entails. The Labor Relations Act (LRA) gives three general categories of conduct considered to be unfair labor practices: retaliation, wrongful pressure, and termination while under collective bargaining agreements.RetaliationActions deemed retaliation are prohibited. These include the following scenarios:

Websites offering pirated content can inflict tremendous damage on copyright holders, but due to the simplicity of sharing digital content in today’s high-speed, always-connected online environment, copyright protection poses serious challenges to both rights holders and government authorities.

The latest update to the Cambodia chapter of Thomson Reuters’ Practical Law guide to insurance and reinsurance has been published, written by legal practitioners from Tilleke & Gibbins’ Phnom Penh office.

This article was first published on Franchising Insider—a blog maintained by US Law Firm Quarles & Brady LLP—and was co-authored by Jay Cohen, partner and director of Tilleke & Gibbins’ Phnom Penh office; Mealtey Oeurn, an advisor in Tilleke & Gibbins’ Phnom Penh Office; and Robert A.

The Contract Committee of the Consumer Protection Board has announced a number of new controls and lessee protections regarding residential property rental contracts executed from January 29, 2020, onward. These were detailed in the Notification of the Contract Committee Re: The Stipulation of Residential Property Leasing as a Contract-Controlled Business B.E. 2562 (2019), which was published in the Government Gazette on October 31, 2019.

On November 5, 2019, the Bank of Thailand (BOT) announced further relaxations of foreign exchange (FX) control regulations on investment in foreign instruments, such as securities and derivatives, in order to facilitate capital outflows and cope with the strengthening of the Thai baht. The key relaxation will, for the first time, allow Thai retail investors to send money offshore to invest directly in foreign instruments. These relaxed FX regulations, which came into effect on November 8, 2019, are summarized below.

In support of Cambodia’s rapidly growing economy, the Cambodian government enacted the Law on Electronic Commerce (E-commerce Law) and the Law on Consumer Protection (Consumer Protection Law) on November 2, 2019. Both of these new laws change the legal landscape in important ways for businesses under their purview. E-commerce Law