Ms Renho, a Taiwanese-Japanese mother of two, has been chosen to lead Japan's largest opposition party, the Democratic Party (DP), in internal elections.
Exit polls showed that Russia's ruling party the United Russia led in Sunday's election of the lower house of the parliament with 44.5 percent of votes.
Japan's main opposition Democratic Party (DP) elected its first female leader Thursday as 48-year-old former TV newscaster Renho won the leadership election by a large margin.
Malaysia's Registrar of Societies (RoS) has approved in principle the formation of former deputy prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin's new party, which will be known as Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia or PPBM.
A humiliating state election defeat for Angela Merkel in her own backyard on Sunday and another drubbing that looms in two weeks in Berlin are casting an ominous shadow over the Chancellor's hopes of winning - or even running - for a fourth term in 2017.
Laos' ruling communist party, Lao People's Revolutionary Party, has voiced concern to its members who lack of discipline, Lao state-run online newspaper Vientiane Times reported Thursday.
New chairman of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) U Than Htay vowed on Wednesday to win the 2020 general election.
Chairman of Myanmar's former ruling party - the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) U Thein Sein has resigned from the party leadership, sources with the USDP Central Executive Committee said Tuesday.
In a week's time members of Britain' s Labour Party will receive ballot papers that could determine whether the party survives or disappears.
More than 70 influential Republicans have signed a letter urging the party to stop spending money on Mr Donald Trump's presidential campaign and direct it instead to November's congressional races, a news report said on Friday (Aug 12).
Japan's top government spokesman said Monday that any punishment for new Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike's defiance of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) would primarily lie with the party's Tokyo chapter.
Supporters of Bernie Sanders disrupted the first day of the Democratic convention on Monday, repeatedly chanting and booing mentions of Hillary Clinton's name as the party's hopes for a show of unity dissolved into frequent chaos.
U.S. Democrats were in turmoil on Sunday, with their party chair abruptly announcing her resignation on the eve of the national convention to officially nominate Hillary Clinton as its presidential candidate.
A traditional chance to showcase party unity turned out extraordinarily divisive, exposing the deep wounds the bombastic presidential candidate Donald Trump has cut through the U.S. Republican Party after a bruising primary season.
Donald Trump was officially named as the Republican presidential nominee on Tuesday after having rebuffed attempts from anti-Trump delegates to change party rules at the beginning of the 2016 Republican National Convention.
Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Britain's main opposition Labour Party, is to face just one challenger for his job, after the withdrawal of British MP Angela Eagle on Tuesday.
Anti-Trump delegates have failed in their final push to block Donald Trump's nomination at the party's convention in Cleveland.
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