‘Absolute power’: After pro-China Maldives leader’s big win, what’s next?
The parliamentary polls sweep by Muizzu’s party raises fears of a return to ‘tyranny’ and questions whether Beijing will step in to alleviate Maldives’s economic woes.
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Indian Gulf workers: The unlikely voters parties are wooing for elections
As the southern Indian state votes on April 26, thousands are flying back from the Gulf to cast their ballot. Could they shape the election?
Indian PM Narendra Modi accused of ‘anti-Muslim hate speech’
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been accused of hate speech targeting Muslims after he referred to them as “infiltrators” during an election campaign rally.
Campaign events, cheap tickets: Indian parties woo Gulf voters for election
As the southern Indian state votes on April 26, thousands are flying back from the Gulf to cast their ballot. Could they shape the election?
Democracy put to the test in India's general election
India's general election for the lower house of parliament kicked off on April 19. With about 970 million eligible voters, it is the world's largest national election. To avoid confusion, the voting is being divided into seven phases across the different states and regions, with ballot counting scheduled for June 4.
Solomon Islands election yields no majority for pro-China party
SYDNEY -- Neither advocates nor opponents of a security pact with Beijing won a majority in the Solomon Islands' parliamentary elections, results announced Wednesday for the last of the legislature's 50 seats show.
Indonesia’s Widodo and son Gibran no longer ruling party members for supporting Prabowo in election: official
Komarudin Watubun, who heads the ethical division of the ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), told Reuters on Tuesday that Widodo and Gibran were not expelled but had ceased to be members after they chose not to endorse the party’s presidential candidate Ganjar Pranowo.
Modi is accused of using hate speech for calling Muslims ‘infiltrators’ at an Indian election rally
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s main opposition party accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of using hate speech after he called Muslims “infiltrators” — some of his most incendiary rhetoric about the minority faith, days after the country began its weekslong general election.