MPs can propose amendments, including adding a provision to outlaw child marriages, in the new law addressing sexual crimes against children, said Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Azalina Othman.

However, Azalina said the new law focuses more on sexual crimes, and not other elements like child marriages.

"In my opinion, we should look at what the criminal sexual elements are today. This law is more to the criminal element," she told reporters at Kuala Lumpur today...