Malaysia's governing coalition extended its unchallenged success in the national elections ever since our neighbouring country's independence from Britain in 1957.
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Counting got under way in Pakistan's parliamentary and provincial elections yesterday after millions of people defied deadly Taliban attacks to take part in the historic democratic transition in...
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Pakistan's moment of political truth is fast approaching. On Saturday, some 40-50 million voters will elect a new national assembly. The outcome is likely to reverberate far and wide.
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The National Front won 133 seats in the 222-member parliament, down from 140 in 2008 and well short of the two-thirds majority that Najib had aimed to capture. The opposition won 89 seats, up from...
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A survey by the Merdeka Centre predicted Najib's National Front coalition could win 85 parliamentary seats, while a three-member opposition alliance led by Anwar Ibrahim would take 89 seats. It...
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3 May 2013
Bahrain's Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim al-Khalifa fought back against allegations of human rights abuses yesterday as he became Asian soccer's new leader with a landslide election win.
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Japan’s politicians were grappling with possible implications on Tuesday after a high court said some general election results were invalid, with other rulings expected later in the day.
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A year ago last week, the tiny Guangdong fishing village of Wukan made history with a democratic election to choose its local leaders. The election was the villagers' reward for months of...
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Thailand's main opposition party triumphed in an election for Bangkok governor yesterday, dealing a surprise blow to exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's ruling party, which had hoped...
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Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of the fair election in Wukan, a remote Guangdong fishing village known for its remarkable civil resistance that won "real democracy" in the form of a direct,...
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In an eerie echo of the storyline of director Johnnie To Kei-fung 's hit 2005 movie Election, about a power struggle at the top of a triad gang, one of the city's most active triad groups - the Wo...
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Two senior Australian ministers have been dragged into a snowballing Labor Party corruption scandal, admitting accepting hospitality from a former power broker at the centre of an inquiry.
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