Indonesians should wait for final vote-counting results: President
JAKARTA: Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo has urged Indonesians to wait for the final results of the voting counting of the 2024 Presidential Election currently handled by the General Elections Commission (KPU). Jokowi’s remarks were conveyed in response to quick count results from several survey agencies published on Wednesday (February 14) afternoon indicating that presidential-vice presidential […]
General election mode in Singapore’s presidential race
By Ivan Lim Former AJA President, Contributor to AsiaN SINGAPORE: As Singaporeans go to the polls on Sept 1 to elect a new President, a non-partisan office, the electioneering is shaping into an opposition versus ruling party fray of sorts. As the nine-day campaign enters its final stretch, “maverick‘ candidate” Mr Tan Kin Lian began […]
Kyrgyzstan votes for new parliament
By Nurzhan Kasmalieva BISHKEK: The parliamentary elections have started in Kyrgyzstan on Sunday morning. President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Zhaparov was one of the first to cast his ballot in a polling station in the outskirts of the capital, Bishkek. After the voting, the head of state called on fellow citizens to be active in the elections and […]
Uzbekistan: President Mirziyoyev takes oath of office for second term
By Dilmurod Jumaboyev Editor-in-chief of Vodiymedia.uz TASHKENT: Shavkat Mirziyoyev, 64, has taken the oath of office for the second term as President of Uzbekistan in a solmen ceremony that took place at the Conference Hall of the Senate in Tashkent. The inauguration of Mirziyoyev, who won the presidential elections in Uzbekistan on October 24 with […]
Kyrgyzstan: What future is the country in turbulence expecting?
By Meder Taabaldiev BISHKEK: In Kyrgyzstan, October 4 marked one year since the 2020 parliamentary election, the results of which sparked massive protests – a culmination of previous president Sooronbai Jeenbekov’s incompetent rule. Pro-government parties took an overwhelming majority of the seats according to the preliminary results. Based on many instances of electoral fraud and […]
Kyrgyz voters cast ballots in presidential elections and referendum
By Nurzhan Kasmalieva Reporter, Kyrgyzstan BISHKEK: Kyrgyz voters started to cast ballots on January 10 to elect a new president and to determine the form of government. The voting started in polling station located in Russia’s Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk at 3.00 a.m. (Bishkek time) and the voting began at 8.00 a.m. of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk time. A total of […]
End of era of sledge-hammer politics in post-GE 2020 Singapore
By Ivan Lim Former AJA President, Contributor to AsiaN SINGAPORE: Is the era of hardball politics coming to an end in Singapore? For decades the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) has been delivering blow after blow, as if with an unabashed sledge hammer, at the microscopic opposition in Parliament. Will the watershed July 10 general […]
Leeway to Opposition but Singaporeans play it safe in polls
By Ivan Lim Former AJA President, Contributor to AsiaN SINGAPORE: Descendants of migrants from China, India and the Malay Archipelago, Singaporeans are said to have a keen sense of survival. This natural instinct could be seen in the way they voted on July 10 in the General Election held amidst the crisis of a generation […]
Singapore General Election: PAP Super-Win or Opposition Super-Wave?
By Ivan Lim Former AJA President, Contributor to AsiaN SINGAPORE: A sweeping PAP victory or the Opposition hacking away the ruling monolith’s super-majority? On the eve of polling day, political pundits are busy sketching out both the outcomes in Singapore’s General Election (GE) on July 10. Those who foresee signs of continuity: the long-standing PAP […]
Singapore opposition sees ‘Wipe-Out’ threat by PAP
By Ivan Lim Former AJA President, Contributor to AsiaN SINGAPORE: Temporarily side-tracked by a 10 million population debate, the ruling PAP has refocused its campaign on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and its S$100 billion budgets to help Singaporeans cope with business and employment problems. Party leaders from Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, downwards […]
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