Election

Opposition candidate Sukhumbhand Paribatra wins Bangkok governor poll

4 Mar 2013

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...

A year after free election, grass-roots democracy in Wukan withers

2 Mar 2013

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,...

Europe watches anxiously as austerity-hit Italians go to the polls

25 Feb 2013

Fellow EU countries and investors are watching closely, as the decisions that Italy makes over the next several months promise to have a profound impact on whether Europe can decisively put out...

Call issued for boycott of Egyptian election

24 Feb 2013

Islamists, who have won every election since the 2011 overthrow of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, dismissed any suggestion that the parliamentary polls would lack credibility and predicted a strong...

Bitter power struggle as election looms for Wo On Lok triad

24 Feb 2013

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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Opinion

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Super ministries may not be the right answer for mainland China

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Top ministers caught up in graft probe

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.

Australian election will be no popularity race

Prime Minister Julia Gillard, regularly described on talkback radio and in conservative media as untrustworthy and desperately clinging to power, is set to fall in the September election if...

Fidel Castro casts ballot and chats with voters in rare appearance

Retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro voted in Cuba's one-party general election and chatted with well-wishers and Cuban reporters in Havana for more than an hour, in his first extended public...

AUSTRALIA

Australia’s Gillard reshuffles cabinet ahead of poll

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Saturday denied that her government was in chaos, after the resignation of two of her most senior ministers prompted a cabinet reshuffle ahead of a...

AUSTRALIA

Australian PM plays down marathon campaign fears

Prime Minister Julia Gillard Thursday told Australians to “relax” after giving them eight months’ notice of elections, insisting they will not be put through a marathon, bitter campaign.

ZIMBABWE

Government says it is down to its last US$217

The paltry amount cast doubt over claims of a slow economic recovery and raised fresh questions about the fate of the country's diamond revenues - officials say almost US$685 million worth were...