Political leaders in the SAR say they support a decision by the Electoral Affairs Commission to ask candidates intending to take part in September’s legislature election to sign a form acknowledging Hong Kong is an inalienable part of China.
After a second round of auditions of candidates for the next UN secretary-general concluded here on Tuesday, UN General Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft said he will made conclusions on these auditions and report them to the Security Council.
Over 69.265 million Vietnamese voters nationwide are casting their votes for election of deputies to the country's parliament and members of all-level people's councils.
A prominent scholar who blasted a package of security bills as unconstitutional in a high-profile Diet session will run in the Upper House election, targeting swing voters disillusioned with the status quo.
More than 54 million Filipinos began casting their votes in polling centers across the country on Monday to pick a new president.
A total of 870 candidates are to run for 500 seats in the 14th National Assembly (NA) of Vietnam, announced a Vietnamese official on Tuesday.
The first-ever public examination of candidates seeking to become the top leader of the United Nations has shown an emphasis on overall gender and geographical balance in the world body.
The UN General Assembly on Tuesday kicked off three days of unprecedented interviews of the nine announced candidates seeking to replace Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon when his second five-year term ends on Dec. 31.
A new chairman has been named to succeed York Chow as head of the Equal Opportunities Commission (eoc). Chow will be succeeded by Alfred Chan Cheung-ming, who is the current chairman of the Commission on the Elderly.
The latest results of Iran's parliamentary polls released on Sunday point to gains by the country's reformists.
Iranian hopefuls began their campaigns on Thursday in a run for two important Majlis (parliament) and Assembly of Experts' elections slated for Feb. 26.
The 90-day campaign period for the national candidates in the Philippine May elections officially starts Tuesday.
The 2016 U.S. presidential race formally began Monday in the mid-western state of Iowa, as Iowans were gathering in some 1,681 precincts to make their choices among the candidates in the state's caucuses.
U.S. Republication frontrunner Donald Trump boycotted Thursday night's presidential debate, but he still could clinch the Republican Party (GOP) nomination for the 2016 race for the White House, experts said.
Last week's terror attacks on Paris have pushed U.S. foreign policy and the fight against terrorism to the forefront of U.S. elections, and candidates will have to show they are tough on terror in the lead up to the 2016 presidential race.
Myanmar's general election ended peacefully in the whole country in overall Sunday afternoon.
Myanmar's multi-party general election began across the country Sunday morning at 6 a.m. local time with 33.5 million eligible voters starting to go to polls and cast votes at respective polling stations .
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