Warns that some candidates can still be disqualified. More than five weeks after the country’s first general election in five years, the Election Commission (EC) yesterday…
Journalists have been jailed for over 500 days. Two award-winning Myanmar journalists who were jailed over their coverage of the Rohingya crisis were freed from jail on Tuesday…
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is on trial for corruption under the 1MDB fund. A sum of RM1.9bil was credited into one of Najib Razak’s private bank accounts…
The activists were sentenced to prison for organizing and participating in pro-democracy protests. Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) expressed regret yesterday after a…
The EC accuse a pro-democracy leader of holding media shares while running for office. The Election Commission (EC) yesterday unanimously resolved to press a charge against Future…
Khan said in Tehran that Pakistan has been used as a staging area for attacks in Iran. Prime Minister Imran Khan’s public acknowledgement in Tehran that terrorists had in…
LDP loses 2 lower house by-elections. Candidates of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party lost in both of Sunday’s House of Representatives by-elections, in Osaka Constituency No.…
The opposition party is reorganizing and assembling as pressure builds on Moon Jae-in. The friction between the ruling bloc and the main opposition Liberty Korea Party is showing…
Some common themes and little optimism as press freedom takes a back seat in Asia. The media advocacy group, Reporters without Borders—also known by its international name…
It remains to be seen how recent elections will change geopolitical realities in the island nation. Earlier this month, a former president of the tiny Indian Ocean island nation…