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Here are the reasons you should subscribe to CD Asia Online:

Completeness and accuracy. CD Asia Online has the most comprehensive database of Philippine laws and jurisprudence. The Laws library has Acts, Commonwealth Acts, Republic Acts, Mga Batas Pambansa, Presidential Decrees, Executive Orders, other executive issuances, Supreme Court issuances, implementing rules and regulations, treaties and international agreements. Jurisprudence contains Philippine Supreme Court decisions from 1901 to the most currently released one. The materials on CD Asia Online are gathered only from official sources and undergo several levels of proofreading and quality control measures to ensure the highest level of accuracy.

User-friendly interface. The online interface makes browsing through laws and Supreme Court decisions convenient and easy. The reader-friendly text format, including footnotes, tables, and images, are presented in a full-page view.

Superior search engine and search capabilities. The materials found in the website are classified and sorted by a powerful, unique, internally-developed search engine that organizes the search results according to the researcher’s needs and specifications. The query template is specially customized for legal documents. The query analyzer corrects typographical errors in search parameters. The back-end is a superior application that can group and sort the search results by relevance, date, issuance number, reference number, ponente and year. It also automatically cross-references and links related documents. The end-user has different type of searches to choose from: simple searches, Boolean queries, fuzzy searches and others.

Value for money. CD Asia Online makes efficient use of the researcher’s time because of its superior search engine. Accurate search results are obtained in seconds and relevant researches may be saved for future reference. The latest laws and jurisprudence are uploaded as soon as the same are available.

CD Asia Online perfectly complements our Laws and Jurisprudence titles on optical media. Our optical media titles are programmed with Folio Views software while CD Asia Online uses a new, internally-developed search engine. The superior search functionalities of both provide the researcher with quick and easy access to legal information needed, anytime, anywhere.

CD Asia Online provides the latest laws and jurisprudence as it is updated as soon as the materials are available. On the other hand, the titles in optical media are updated quarterly.

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Just click on the “Forget your password?” button in the log in page of CD Asia Online and you will be given instructions how to change your password.

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Email us at techsupport_online@cdasia.com or fill out the technical inquiry form at the Contact Us page. We will respond to your query as soon as possible.

For urgent matters or if you prefer to talk to our staff, you may call us at (02) 634-3792 during office hours (8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.), Monday to Friday.

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