About 3,000 national legislators on Sunday began the reading of a draft revision to China's Legislation Law, which aims to clarify legislative power and streamline the procedure.
China's drafting of its first counterterrorism law is a domestic issue, China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday in response to comments made by the United States.
U.S. President Barack Obama's criticism of the upcoming counterterrorism law of China is utterly groundless and another piece of evidence of arrogance and hypocrisy of the U.S. foreign policy.
Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court on Sunday ruled an electoral law article which regulates the division of the electoral districts of the country's upcoming parliamentary elections as unconstitutional, a ruling that may delay the vote set for March 21, state-run Nile TV reported.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ordered Sunday to redraft an electoral law article which was ruled unconstitutional within one month, state-run Nile TV reported.
French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday headed an emergency cabinet meeting ahead of parliamentary vote on a controversial economic bill likely to pass by a narrow majority.
"The leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) cannot be a shield for officials who seek to override the law, to use their power to influence law enforcement or to bend the law for personal gain."
Lawmakers of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) approved on Sunday a new electoral law stripped of a provision that tied a census to 2016 general elections and triggered deadly protests.
A new foreign investment law will ease restrictions on foreign investors and grant them easier access to the Chinese market, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said on Monday.
South Korea plans to legalize its government responsibility for peaceful unification with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Seoul's unification ministry said on Monday.
The Japanese government designated 382 cases as top secrets subject to protection under the new secrecy law as of the end of December, local media reported Friday.
The revised Environmental Protection Law that takes effect on Thursday imposes more severe fines and even comes with the possibility of criminal charges against polluters.
China's top legislature ended a bimonthly session on Sunday, adopting a law on navigation channels, and giving go-ahead to ease investment rules in three new free trade zones (FTZs).
The Dutch government got into a sudden and unexpected crisis on Wednesday after three senators from PvdA party blocked a health care law by Edith Schippers, minister of Health, Welfare and Sport from the VVD party.
Japan's largely unpopular and highly controversial Special Secrecy Law came into effect Wednesday granting the government wider powers to declare and designate state secrets and impose harsher penalties on those charged with leaking them.
Japan's controversial Special Secrecy Law took effect on Wednesday, with 55 categories of information over diplomacy, defense, anti-terrorism and counterespionage being defined as state secrets, amid strong public opposition.
Chinese law experts on Sunday called for an enhanced legal system to prevent corruption, while expressing their strong support of the investigation into Zhou Yongkang.
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