PHNOM PENH, June 1 — The Myanmar government has extended a temporary ceasefire that expired yesterday to June 30 to facilitate rebuilding and to prepare for the general election.

JOHOR BAHRU, May 23 — The 2024/2025 Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) National Congress begins today, with the spotligh on electing the party's new leadership for the 2025–2028 term.

SEOUL, May 11 — South Korea’s former prime minister and acting president Han Duck-soo ended a short, ill-fated attempt to win the conservative party’s presidential nomination on Sunday after days of internecine disputes just days out from the election.

SEOUL, April 9 — The mayor of Seoul, Oh Se-hoon, will announce his bid for the South Korean presidency, Yonhap News Agency reported today.

SYDNEY, March 28 — Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Friday called a national election for May 3, launching a five-week campaign that is set to be dominated by cost-of-living pressures.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 15 — The DAP Central Executive Committee (CEC) election will be held at 10am tomorrow, with 70 candidates vying for 30 seats.

BERLIN, Dec 16 — Chancellor Olaf Scholz will call on Germany's parliament on Monday to declare it has no confidence in him, taking the first formal step towards securing an early national election following his government's collapse.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 8 — The election for Youth Parliament members will feature a new format starting March next year, said Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Johari Abdul.

JAKARTA, Aug 23 — Thousands protested in cities across Indonesia yesterday, capping a dramatic week in politics in the world's third-largest democracy as President Joko Widodo, better known as Jokowi, enters the final weeks of his decade in office.

GUA MUSANG, Aug 16 — The 'war' in Nenggiri for the state by-election campaign will end at midnight tonight, before voters make the decision to choose their representative tomorrow.

CARACAS, July 29 — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has won a third term with 51 per cent of the vote, the country's electoral authority said just after midnight on Monday, despite multiple exit polls which pointed to an opposition win.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 —  Disciplinary action will be taken if there is evidence of ministers or agencies using government machinery during election campaigns, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

TEHRAN, July 6 — Relative moderate Masoud Pezeshkian urged people today to stick with him on “the difficult road ahead” after beating a hard-line rival to win Iran’s presidential election.

NIBONG TEBAL, June 20 — Pakatan Harapan’s (Harapan) chances of winning the Sungai Bakap by-election are bright as the community in the area wants change, said PKR Wanita head Fadhlina Sidek.

PUTRAJAYA, June 6 — The Election Commission (EC) has set July 6 for polling for the Sungai Bakap by-election in Penang.

NEW DELHI, June 5 — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set for a historic third term on Tuesday, but with a vastly diminished majority in a rare electoral setback for a leader who has held a tight grip on the nation's politics.

NEW DELHI, June 3 — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led alliance is projected to win a big majority in the general election that concluded on Saturday, TV exit polls said, suggesting it would do better than expected by most analysts.

JOHANNESBURG, June 1 — South Africa is set to end three decades of dominance by the party that freed it from apartheid on Saturday, as voters angry at joblessness, inequality and power shortages slashed the African National Congress's (ANC) share of the vote to 40 per cent.

JOHANNESBURG, May 29 — South Africans vote on Wednesday in the most competitive election since the end of apartheid, with opinion polls suggesting the African National Congress (ANC) will lose its parliamentary majority after 30 years in government.

LONDON, May 23 — Frustrated at his inability to get a clear message across to British voters, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called an election yesterday from a position of weakness.