MANILA, Philippines - Senate President Franklin Drilon has introduced several amendments to the 85-year-old Revised Penal Code to make it more relevant to the present situation and help address the ...

President Duterte has signed the law that increases the outdated amounts in the Revised Penal Code on which fines and penalties are based, thus ensuring more proportional punishment for those who ...

Vietnam will delay the release date of its 2025 Penal Code, which was scheduled to replace the 1999 Criminal Code on July 1, due to errors in the drafting process, according to a VnExpress source. No ...

MANILA, Philippines – Senate President Franklin Drilon filed a bill on Friday, March 6, to propose many amendments to the 85-year-old Revised Penal Code (RPC). Senate Bill 2680 seeks to adjust the ...

The President signs into law amendments to the Revised Penal Code which impose heavier fines for crimes and higher values for property used as basis for penalties MANILA, Philippines – Penalties for ...

An allegation was thrown against me for degrading the reputation of a teenage girl. The matter was brought before the barangay, however, the conciliation failed. When the barangay issued a certificate ...

The draft Penal Code – currently under parliament’s scrutiny– among other things proposes scraping of the requirement of a court order before procuring an abortion.

Mon, March 4, 2019 Published on Mar. 4, 2019 Published on 2019-03-04T10:05:37+07:00 he draft of the revised Criminal Code (KUHP) remains unfinished nearing the end of the 2014-2019 legislative term.

(New York) – Vietnam should immediately repeal a provision in its revised penal code that would hold lawyers criminally responsible for not reporting clients to the authorities for a number of crimes, ...

MANILA, Philippines - Congress will be asked to replace the 79-year-old Revised Penal Code (RPC) with a completely new criminal code. Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said a criminal code committee ...

Seeking to make the country’s criminal code more "simplified and responsive," Iloilo Rep. Niel Tupas Jr. on Tuesday presented House Bill 2300 or Book One of the Revised Penal Code (RPC). Other than ...