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Balancing The Tensions Between Shipping And Marine Environmental Protection In The Straits Of Malacca And Singapore: Have The Straits Reached An Environmental Tipping Point?, Mohd Mohd Rusli Jan 2011

Balancing The Tensions Between Shipping And Marine Environmental Protection In The Straits Of Malacca And Singapore: Have The Straits Reached An Environmental Tipping Point?, Mohd Mohd Rusli

Faculty of Law - Papers (Archive)

Having reputations as two of the world's most critical straits for international shipping activities, the problem of vessel-source pollution has always been endemic in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore. With the projected steady increase of navigational traffic through the Straits of Malacca and Singapore each year, this situation would eventually create more intricate situations for the littoral States of the Straits, namely Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore especially in maintaining the marine environment of the Straits from vessel-source pollution. Therefore, this article ventures into possible shipping control mechanisms available to the littoral States, namely measures provided by the IMO and …


Straits Of Malacca And Singapore: Ensuring Safe Navigation, Mohd Mohd Rusli Jan 2011

Straits Of Malacca And Singapore: Ensuring Safe Navigation, Mohd Mohd Rusli

Faculty of Law - Papers (Archive)

The Straits of Malacca and Singapore are two of the world's most congested straits used for international shipping. There are existing hazards impeding safe navigation through the Straits. What would be the impact of a proposed bridge linking Sumatra and Malaysia?


The Transcolonial Politics Of Chinese Domestic Mastery In Singapore And Darwin 1910s-1930s, Claire K. Lowrie Jan 2011

The Transcolonial Politics Of Chinese Domestic Mastery In Singapore And Darwin 1910s-1930s, Claire K. Lowrie

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Feminist and postcolonial scholars have long argued that the home was a microcosm and a symbol of the colony. To exercise power in the home, to practice domestic mastery over colonised servants, was an expression of colonial power. At the same time, intimate contact and domestic conflicts between non-white servants and their employers had the potential to destabilise hierarchical distinctions, thereby threatening the stability of colonial rule. As Ann Laura Stoler puts it, the home was a site where "racial classifications were defined and defied" and where relations between coloniser and colonised could sustain or challenge colonial rule. The vast …