Democracy

By Firoz Abdul Hamid The study of Aristotelian logic (or in the Islamic syllabus known as Mantiq –...

Indonesia’s incumbent President Joko Widodo looks likely to have secured a comfortable win over his rival in Indonesian...

The Thai election 2019 took a surprise turn in the afternoon of March 24 as...

Early counts in Thailand's first election since a 2014 coup, held on March 24, indicated populist-liberal Pheu...

Hundreds of thousands of voters across Thailand were heading out on March 17 to cast early ballots, a week ahead the country's first general...

Thailand will hold a general election on March 24, 2019 for the first time since the latest military coup in May 2014. The date...

Thailand's military government on September 12 enacted two new laws that set in motion a countdown leading to elections to be held between February...

Elections will be held on February 24 at the earliest and by May 5 at the latest, Thailand's Election Commission (EC) chairman Ittiporn Boonprakong...

Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) said on July 30 it had won all 125 parliamentary seats up for grabs in...

Spokespersons of the Thai government on February 19 called for a rare press conference for a large number of foreign media representatives and diplomats...

The war of words between Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen and representatives of Western organisations intensified in the past weeks, with Hun Sen boasting...

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen will end his political life like Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, exiled former opposition chief Sam Rainsy told...

Surin Pitsuwan, secretary-general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) between 2008 and 2012 and also Thailand's former foreign minister between 1997 and...

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen, who came to power with the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s and has ruled the country with...

Only a few days ahead of the Philippine presidential elections, Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte keeps a firm lead in the latest survey, with Manuel...

The new government in Myanmar freed more than 100 political prisoners under an amnesty ordered by the country's new de-facto leader Aung San Suu...

Polls are open in Myanmar today in elections that will test the military's longstanding grip on power. It's the first election contested by the...

Thailand's military-backed legislature, the "National Reform Council (NRC)", on September 6 rejected a widely unpopular draft of a new constitution. The country's return to...