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A bipartisan package of modest gun safety measures passed the U.S. Senate late on Thursday (June 23) even as the Supreme Court broadly expanded gun rights by ruling Americans have a constitutional right to carry handguns in public for self-defence.

Spain voted on Tuesday in favour of a proposal to draw up legislation to abolish prostitution, cracking down further on pimping and introducing tougher penalties for men buying sex in a controversial initiative that has split the women's rights movement.

The European Council said Saturday that it has reached a provisional political agreement with the European Parliament on new legislation to combat hate speech, disinformation and other harmful content online.

9th Asian Legislative Experts Symposium also explores how Asian countries should work together

WASHINGTON - A senior Justice Department official on Friday said he saw an increasing willingness on Capitol Hill to pass legislation requiring tech companies to make their encrypted devices accessible to law enforcement, saying "the ground is as fertile as ever" for such action.

THAILAND SHOULD further improve its human-resource capabilities in patenting so the commercialisation of intellectual property (IP) assets can be enhanced, IP experts suggested.

THE Ministry of Digital Economy and Society will submit a draft bill on data protection to the Cabinet with the aim of securing approval for the legislation by the end of this month.

THE LAW DRAFTERS will leave it to the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) to decide whether or not to take the issue of the issue of the graft-buster bill to the Constitutional Court.

THE NATIONAL Legislative Assembly (NLA) has expressed satisfaction with its overall work in the past year, during which it passed 271 laws, including organic bills. It is also expecting to see many more new laws passed in 2018 in relation to political reforms and the national strategy.

Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva on Tuesday questioned the decision to amend the political party law via the invocation of Article 44 of the pre-2017 interim charter, as revealed by Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam on Monday.

The organic bill governing the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) is scheduled for final reading before the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) on Thursday for a final reading amid a controversy regarding the OAG’s proposed new authority to probe officials of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC).

The Council of State is considering proposing that the Cabinet move some criminal penalties to administrative jurisdiction due to an overabundance of laws and prison overcrowding.