Original sentence: Homosexual acts are also not illegal in many of Singapore's neigbouring countries.There is even greater pressure to reform the Penal Code, because of the irony that that such sections in the Penal Code repealed in the UK itself and in former colonies such as Hong Kong but remains firmly entrenched in Singapore
Edited sentence: Homosexual acts are not illegal in China, Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, South Korea, Thailand and Kampuchea (the majority of East Asia) and only remain so in Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar and the Indian subcontinent as an archaic remnant of Victorian colonialism.It is ironic that this law has been repealed in the UK itself and in former colonies such as Hong Kong but remains firmly entrenched in Singapore