Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is considering delaying a sales tax hike, originally planned in April 2017, by around two years, Japanese media reported on Friday.
The first Indigenous woman elected to Australia's parliament has defended her decision to quit before the upcoming federal election.
U.S. Republicans continue to follow the news of the presidential election more closely than Democrats, according to a Gallup poll released Monday.
Austrian political and religious leaders have called on the newly-elected president Alexander Van der Bellen to make efforts to unite the country following a closest-ever presidential election race that concluded Monday.
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.
Dominican Republic's incumbent president, Danilo Medina, enjoys a strong lead in the presidential race and is poised to win an easy re-election, early results of Sunday's election showed.
The election of controversial politician Rodrigo Duterte to the nation's highest office has so far had little impact on the robust Philippine economy. In fact, quite the reverse has happened since the polls on Monday.
Australia's Opposition Leader on Tuesday thwarted calls for a Labor-Greens coalition to secure the 2016 federal election, after the idea was put forward by Greens MP Adam Bandt overnight.
Davao city mayor Rodrigo Duterte has won the 2016 Philippine presidential election, according to an unofficial and partial tally of votes cast as of 2:00 a.m. Tuesday.
Millions of Filipinos began casting their votes in polling centers across the country on Monday to pick a new president.
Australia signed a A$280 million (S$284.45 million) contract with naval shipbuilder Austal Ships Pty on Thursday (May 5) for 21 patrol boats, the first stage of its military expansion, the government said.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is so focused on dealing with the earthquake disaster in Kyushu that he has dropped the politically strategic idea of holding a double election this summer, sources said.
The latest poll showed far-right Freedom Party (FPO) candidate Norbert Hofer has won the first round of the Austrian presidential election on Sunday.
Australia's parliament has been recalled to sit for three weeks on Monday, setting in motion a plan by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to pass controversial legislation or force a double dissolution election.
South Korea's ruling party failed to regain a majority in the parliamentary election on Wednesday, heralding hardships that President Park Geun-hye's economic reform drive may face during the remaining tenure of her five-year term.
Japanese opposition parties accelerated their realignment ahead of this summer's upper house election with the latest move of the formal establishment of the Minshinto, or the Democratic Party, on Sunday to confront the ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Myanmar's President-elect U Htin Kyaw has said that his election as new president of Myanmar is a victory of the people, local media reported Wednesday.
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