We urge the leaders in Myanmar, whether military, civilian, ethnic or religious, to renew their commitment to continue to protect Myanmar's democracy, which has been growing slowly, and to carefully nurture it collectively with all the peoples of Myanmar. We also encourage the international community including ASEAN to call for a peaceful democratic resolution to the current crisis.
Keep Reading →The pandemic has also exposed some old myths. With the Circuit Breaker in place, Work-From-Home has become the default norm. Services workers are now seen as very important to upkeep the sanitation and essential to keep the operations of supermarkets running. Even as cheers and claps for health care workers are replicated here, heroes being made out of food delivery workers and cleaners, there is a lag and gap in the national conversation to redress them through better wage structures and policies.
Keep Reading →The opposition Workers' Party make history winning GRC and SMC. The people of Singapore have make history, making this change possible. We are celebrating our freedom of choice.
Keep Reading →The time for change has come. Now the PAP must fight for the mandate to form the new government. Will the citizens vote to reject the PAP offer of more of the same to remain merely as economic digits? Will the citizens vote to live a more meaningful life with dignity, joy and happiness, for themselves and their families?
Keep Reading →Think Centre forecast cost of living as the key election issue all parties will debate and recommend changes to better living and working conditions. High cost of living remains with much suffering for all families.
Keep Reading →Japan is suffering record unemployment and its economy is struggling to emerge from a bruising recession. The DPJ has said it will shift the focus of government from supporting corporations to helping consumers and workers.
Keep Reading →The LDP of Japan which has held power in Japan for 5 decades looks set to face almost certain defeat at the polls this weekend.
Keep Reading →For the first time, Barisan Nasional coalition lost its two-thirds parliamentary majority. Malaysian opposition won in 5 states - Penang, Kedah, Perak, Selangor and Kelatan. A well-deserved victory that promises the birth of a new dawn in Malaysian politics.
Keep Reading →The election followed a year of violence and political turmoil in East Timor. While Fretilin's led the election, the vote share plummeted from the 57 percent it took in the 2001 election.
Keep Reading →It is the first poll since the former Portuguese colony declared independence in 2002 after a bloody separation three years earlier from occupying Indonesian forces.
Keep Reading →Thailand's three election commissioners, seen as close allies of embattled Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, were today sentenced to four years in prison for allowing unqualified candidates to run in parliamentary elections in April.
Keep Reading →Decades of authoritarian rule suggest, in the ruling party' view a strong PAP and a strong opposition capable of competing with it are incompatible.
Keep Reading →The absence of a truly independent elections commission is a very serious weakness in Singapore's elections process and throws the whole process into question whether its free and fair.
Keep Reading →THE newly released registration of voters, in advance of the coming general election, shows the number of new registered voters in the past five years has increased by a paltry 45,000 – or just 9000 a year!
Keep Reading →The Workers party's manifesto has become a subject of public debate. People's Action Party's (PAP) organising secretary for special duties Dr Ng Eng Hen [who is the Minister for Manpower] criticized the WP's Manifesto as "time bombs". Why?
Keep Reading →GOVERNMENT handouts, attacks on opposition parties and an expected giveaway budget mean only one thing, say analysts in Singapore: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is getting ready to call an election.
Keep Reading →The election may suggest that the health of Japanese democracy is vulnerable to the media-savvy use of glamorous women chosen to front an electoral machine designed to preserve in power an ossified collection of elderly males and their factional interests.
Keep Reading →SINGAPORE'S incumbent president was named to a second six-year term on Wednesday, Aug 17, after three would-be contenders were disqualified in a move political analysts said could hurt the ruling party in coming elections.
Keep Reading →Ever since Andrew Kuan announced his intention to seek the presidency, Singaporeans have been treated to an unaccustomed spectacle – the PAP coming out with all guns blazing, almost as if they're in panic.
Keep Reading →20 September 2004, at least 33 million Indonesians abstained the first direct presidential elections in Indonesia. Will there be stability under the SBY government to attract foreign investment and solve the economic problems?
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