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Poland plans bill to criminalise 'promoting underage sex'
WARSAW (Reuters) - Lawmakers from Poland's ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) have begun work on a bill to criminalise "the promotion of underage sexual activity", in a move which aims to boost their credentials with staunchly Catholic voters but which has angered liberals and women's rights activists.
Poland's parliament on knife-edge as opposition takes upper house
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party appears to have narrowly won a second term in power, final results from Sunday's parliamentary election showed, but its drive to push through its agenda may be hampered by its loss of the upper house.
Second term awaits nationalist PiS as polarised Poles vote
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poles voted on Sunday in an election that is likely to hand the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party a second term in office, potentially deepening the country's isolation as unease within the EU about its commitment to democratic standards grows.
Second term awaits nationalist PiS as polarised Poles prepare to vote
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland holds an election on Sunday that is likely to hand the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party a second term in office, potentially deepening the country's isolation as unease within the EU about its commitment to democratic standards grows.
Delhi hawkers to be free from threat of eviction after five-year delay
MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Delhi is set to become the first Indian city to fully implement a law that protects street vendors against the threat of eviction, authorities in the capital said on Thursday, five years after the landmark legislation was first introduced.
What does the Malay Dignity Congress tell us about our universities and academia?
THE aftermath of the Malay Dignity Congress organised by four public universities – Universiti Malaya (UM), Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI), Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) and Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) – has left Malaysians pondering a simple question:
U.S. Supreme Court weighs major gay, transgender employment rights case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday wades into a major LGBT rights dispute over whether a landmark decades-old federal anti-discrimination law that prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sex covers gay and transgender workers.
Crusading tech mogul aims to prove CEOs can be activists too
Salesforce founder Marc Benioff oversees a US$130bil (RM545.02bil) software empire from a 62-story skyscraper that towers above everything else in San Francisco. But he sits uneasily in his lofty perch because of a worsening economic divide on the streets down below, where the lavish pay doled out to tech workers like his are pricing many people out of affordable housing.
Japanese MP makes waves by linking same-sex marriage to revising constitution
TOKYO (Reuters) - A conservative ally of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has called for discussion on revising Japan's constitution to allow same-sex marriage, annoying colleagues in the ruling party who are against it and also opposition parliamentarians who say enacting a simple law would clear the way.
With liberal bloc ageing, Trump may get more Supreme Court appointments
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With 86-year-old liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg enduring a series of health scares, the question of whether President Donald Trump will get to make yet another U.S. Supreme Court appointment before the 2020 election lingers as the nine justices prepare to begin their new term next week.