In Indonesia they are in the process of passing a law where having consensual sexual relations outside ones marriage will result in criminalized punishment. The new penal code would replace a Dutch colonial-era set of laws which would help Indonesia express their overdue independence. Indonesia is the most populated country with a Muslim majority which leads into why they are… Read more »
Phnom Penh, Cambodia – Two prominent civil society groups in Cambodia have released a report detailing predatory practices by local microfinance institutions (MFIs), including coerced land sales. The joint report, released on Wednesday by human rights group, Licadho, and land rights group, Sahmakum Teang Tnaut (STT), spans 10 communities in four provinces and the capital, Phnom Penh. The report includes cases of abuse,… Read more »
JAKARTA (Reuters) — Indonesia is poised to pass a new penal code that criminalizes consensual sex outside marriage and introduces stiff penalties for insulting the president’s dignity — a move rights groups criticized as an intrusive assault on basic freedoms. Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim majority country and has substantial Christian, Hindu and Buddhist minorities, but has seen… Read more »
TOKYO The cost of school uniforms weighs heavily on many a parent’s budget, and in Japan authorities have got involved, raiding one of the country’s biggest department stores on suspicion of price collusion. Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Stores and its subsidiary were raided this week by the Japan Fair Trade Commission, according to the firms’ parent J. Front Retailing. “We take… Read more »
A Japanese district court has found all three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company not guilty in the only criminal prosecution stemming from the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima. The executives are: Tsunehisa Katsumata who was the chairman of TEPCO at the time of the accident, and two former vice presidents, Ichiro Takekuro and Sakae Muto. The judges acquitted… Read more »