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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A $8 billion defense package approved by the U.S. House of Representatives over the weekend will “strengthen the deterrence against authoritarianism in the West Pacific ally chain,” Taiwan’s President-elect Lai Ching-te said Tuesday, in a reference to key rival China.
Their lives are deeply entwined with the sacred river Ganges but Varanasi’s mallah community say they have been overlooked.
Prabowo, 72, won the election by a substantial margin of votes, but his rivals – former governors Anies Baswedan and Ganjar Pranowo – had sought his disqualification and a revote through the Constitutional Court.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s top court on Monday rejected appeals lodged by two losing presidential candidates who are demanding a revote, alleging widespread irregularities and fraud at the February polls.
Philippine-based independent polling firm WR Numero told This Week in Asia its findings also showed the Philippine public was “not a foreign-policy-type of population” and that its demands of the president were no different than other elected public officials.
JAKARTA -- Indonesia's Constitutional Court on Monday rejected claims disputing Prabowo Subianto's victory in February's presidential election, saying it had not identified any problems in the voting.
His apparent reversion to sectarian politics has raised concerns about a breach of election standards, even as observers say the move is unlikely to add to the Hindu-nationalist BJP’s existing vote bank.
Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu's ruling pro-China party cemented its grip on power in a landslide election victory, according to preliminary results reported by local media.