The Works Ministry (KKR) has acknowledged the legal proceedings involving one of its civil servants, who was charged under ...

The Senate passed the Penal Code that now moves to the Chamber of Deputies for approval. The present legislation closes on 24 July 2025 and reopens on 16 August 2025.

The Singapore Parliament voted on Nov 29 to repeal Section 377A of the Penal Code, a colonial-era law which criminalises gay sex between men. Same-sex marriage in Taiwan has been legalised on May ...

There was a strong and urgent demand for amendment of the Penal Code with adequate provisions and deterrent penalties that could have the effect of arresting the increasing incidence of sexual abuse ...

Iran’s Islamic Penal Code, which went into effect in 1991, reflects the ruling clerics’ interpretation of Sharia law, based on the Jafari or Twelver Shia school of jurisprudence.

The Malaysian Bar Council has discussed in detail the effects of sections 377A and 377B of the penal code with views that the law is discriminatory.

SINGAPORE – The first major review of the Penal Code in more than a decade has yielded calls for sweeping changes — 169 to be exact — with a key focus on beefing up laws on sexual and abuse ...