A pool of 460,000 votes should be a big draw for candidates in a hotly contested election. But our hopefuls in the September Legco polls apparently think otherwise. We are talking about the...
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More than 80 complaints have been made to the Electoral Affairs Commission regarding the chief executive election, compared with 30 recorded after the 2007 poll.
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The government has proposed giving all prisoners the right to vote regardless of the severity of their crimes and the length of their sentences.
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Two lawmakers went to the police yesterday, alleging they had been unfairly surrounded by another candidate's canvassing agents during the district council balloting on Sunday. They said the...
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About 2,000 complaints about the district council elections had been received up to 5pm yesterday.
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Anson Chan Fang On-sang stirred fresh controversy when she pledged to become a patron of a volunteer group for the elderly and tried to secure donations for it during a vote-canvassing visit...
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Four years ago, as security chief pushing the unpopular Article 23 national security bill, Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee, wearing her trademark leopard-print pants, black leather jacket and dark...
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On the face of it, it was hard to imagine this was a big day for Hong Kong because even areas where candidates were supposed to canvass were exceptionally quiet.
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Canvassing leaflets were spotted inside several vehicles providing free rides to voters yesterday in remote villages of Pat Heung, Yuen Long.
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Tannery owners in Calcutta's Chinatown are frustrated at the Indian government's procrastination in establishing a new leather processing complex at Bantala so they can again set up business.
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The poll is being seen as a barometer for strength of public's democratic hopes
Voters are promising to turn out in record numbers to vote in the district council elections on...
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