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Countries and Territories The Gaza Strip Geography The Gaza Strip geography has changed several times through the years (see Appendix B). The territory is located in the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea and borders on the southwest with Egypt and with Israel on the east and north (The World Factbook, 2016). Political and Legal Factors The Gaza Strip’s governance is carried out by the Hamas Administration. Gaza’s current Prime Minister is Ismail Haniyeh (The World Factbook, 2016). Economic…

IV. Result and Analysis Politically Connected Firms Based on in-depth research, we managed to identify a list of stocks that have linked to political parties and leadership. Since in the election in 2014 there are two candidates we divided into Political Winning (Ir. Joko Widodo- M. Jusuf Kalla) and Political Lose (Prabowo Subianto - Hatta Rajasa). As a result, there are a total of 54 firms were identified over a test period of the presidential election in 2014 as politically connected.…

TU-95 “Bear” Strategic Bombers – The Tu-95, nicknamed by NATO reports as “Bear” is a strategic bomber and missile platform. It was designed during the Cold War and entered service in 1956. Reports from the Russian Air Force (RAF) expect it to serve until at least 2040. In its design, the propeller-blades move faster than the speed of sound which cements its position as one of the nosiest military aircrafts. Due to its size, sizable crews of 6-7 men are needed to successfully operate it. As it…

Trade Organization. The WTO is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of international trade between nations. At its heart are the many agreements, which were negotiated and signed by governments and ratified in their parliaments. I. The WTO came into being in 1995, and though legally distinct from the "GATT", they are interrelated. The WTO was created after the culmination of long, intense negotiations, which took place under the auspices of the "GATT" and are…

Other languages spoken in India come from the Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman language families. India has no national language. Hindi, with the largest number of speakers, is the official language of the government. English is used extensively in business and administration and has the status of a "subsidiary official language"; it is important in education, especially as a medium of higher education. Each state and union territory has one or more official languages, and the constitution…

constitutional court. The majority part of Thailand legal system is consisted by code law, and most law was adopted from the UK and European, with a small amount borrowed from China, India and Japan 1. Legislation act in Thailand is made by the parliament of Thailand. Thailand’s code law is consisted by three major codes, which are criminal code, civil and commercial code and numerous special codes. Punishments in code law system are relatively fixed than common law system. The Department of…

It was former Prime Minister John Howard who once said during the launch his 2001 election campaign: “We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come”. It was in response to the Tampa crisis where Norwegian freighter MV Tampa rescued 438 refugees off a sinking fishing boat named the Palapa (Doherty, 2011). It was an event that ushered Australia into what is now more than a decade of constant failures to meet humanitarian conventions and international laws…

General Australian refugee facts and figures The 1951 UN Refugee Convention defines a refugee as “someone who has a well-founded fear of persecution in their own country, because of their race, religion, nationality or political or social affiliation” (Refugee Action Coalition, n.d.). In other words refugees are ordinary individuals who have been forced to leave their country to be able to escape war, persecution or natural disaster (Oxford, 2014). Ever since 1945 there have been over 700 000…

In order for a destination to be sustainable, it has to make sure that it practices sustainable development. The graph shown below gives an example of how the three parts involved in sustainable development should come together to create a sustainable destination. Johann Dreo (March 9, 2006), Sustainable development. Retrieved: April 22, 2008 from www.wikipedia.org/sustainable_development This model was created by Johann Dreo, he put it forward in his work on sustainable development.…

He says that Western companies think they can avoid political risk by spelling out every detail in a contract, but "in Asia, there is no shortcut for managing the relationship."88 In other words, the contract is in the relationship, not on the paper, and the way to ensure the reliability of the agreement is to nurture the relationship. Even a deal that has been implemented for some time may start to get watered down at a time when you cannot do anything about it. A Japanese-led consortium…