Half seats of the upper house are up to grab every three years. A total of 389 candidates will contest in the vote through a mix of constituencies and proportional representation.
China said its naval drill in the South China Sea is within its sovereign rights, and it urged the Philippines to come back to the negotiating table to solve its maritime disputes with China regardless of an arbitrary tribunal's ruling.
Manila must set aside an expected international tribunal ruling on the South China Sea before stalled talks with Beijing can resume over their long-running maritime disputes, China Daily reported yesterday.
After new Philippine Cabinet members struck a conciliatory tone on the upcoming ruling in the arbitration case against China, Beijing said disputes with the Philippines could only be properly managed and resolved "through negotiation and consultation", not arbitration.
A Chinese appeal court has ruled against US sportswear firm New Balance for trademark infringements and ordered it to pay five million yuan (HK$5.9 million) in compensation to a Chinese company, an amount far lower than previously ruled.
Official campaigning for the July 10 Japanese House of Councillors election kicked off on Wednesday with the ruling coalition that groups the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Komeito Party contesting with the opposition parties over policies on economy and Constitution amendment.
Leaders of Japanese political parties on Tuesday debated on key political and economic issues ahead of the upcoming House of Councillors election slated for July 10, with the ruling camp seeking to gain over two thirds of the seats in the chamber so as to launch a Constitution amendment motion.
Thousands of protesters gathered in downtown Tokyo on Sunday to call for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to resign and for a law allowing the military to fight overseas to be overturned, as an election for parliament’s upper house draws near.
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party-led coalition under the stewardship of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may delay the approval of the already signed Trans-Pacific Partnership accord owing to a number of related rifts with opposition parties, local media reported Wednesday.
A federal judge in New York sided Monday with Apple against the Justice Department, about whether the company can be forced to help investigators extract data from a locked phone—a ruling that could affect a similar, much-watched case involving a shooter’s phone in California.
Japanese opposition parties accelerated their realignment ahead of the upper house election slated for this summer with the latest move on Tuesday that two major opposition parties here basically agreed to merge in a step to challenge the ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Portugal's center-right ruling coalition led by incumbent Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho won Sunday's general election but fell short of an absolute majority in the parliament.
As more than 120,000 people have surrounded Japan's national Diet building and protested at 300 other locations nationwide demanding Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's resignation and retraction of the controversial security bills, maybe it is time for the country's ruling bloc to carefully listen to the public.
Taiwan's top legislator Wang Jin-pyng can retain his membership of the ruling Kuomintang (KMT), according to the final ruling of the island's court on Thursday.
Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court on Sunday ruled an electoral law article which regulates the division of the electoral districts of the country's upcoming parliamentary elections as unconstitutional, a ruling that may delay the vote set for March 21, state-run Nile TV reported.
The ongoing tussle between Nepal' s ruling and opposition parties is likely to deepen as both sides remain firm in their respective positions on drafting the new constitution and there are no signs of thaw, cross-party leaders said Saturday.
Amid obstruction and protests by opposition parties, Nepal's Constituent Assembly (CA) Chairman Subas Chandra Nembang on Sunday announced a committee to initiate the voting process on contentious issues of the new constitution.
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