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Election censorship to apply to social media
News, Post Reporters, Published on 04/01/2018
» Election candidates will be required to register for vote-canvassing on electronic and social media, according to the current draft of the organic law governing the election of MPs.
Countdown to radical electoral change
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 04/01/2018
» With national elections widely expected to take place in November, the countdown has begun for a vote that will put to the test a new and controversial electoral system put forward by the Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC).
NLA gets tough on local election regulations
News, Post Reporters, Published on 12/01/2018
» The National Legislative Assembly (NLA) will consider amending six local administrative organisation (LAO) laws and has reaffirmed LAO elections will be held by the middle of this year.
Election bill delay condemned
Online Reporters, Published on 20/01/2018
» Politicians have roundly condemned the decision of a National Legislative Assembly (NLA) panel to tweak an election-related organic law that could push the polling date into next year.
'Thai-ism committee' set up to guide development
Online Reporters, Published on 24/01/2018
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-chat has set up a "Thai-ism committee" to direct development projects to lift the quality of life for poor people nationwide in the run up to the much-delayed general election and beyond.
Malaysian makeover: At 92, Mahathir seeks to be PM again
Reuters, Published on 24/01/2018
» KUALA LUMPUR: At 92, Mahathir Mohamad will become the world's oldest person to be voted prime minister if he wins Malaysia's upcoming general election. But to do that, he needs to woo people in their 20s and 30s, the country's dominant - and mostly undecided - vote block.
Nida Poll director to resign over Prawit's luxury watches
Online Reporters, Published on 28/01/2018
» The director of the National Institute of Development Administration (Nida)'s polling agency has vowed to resign after top administration bowed to political pressure in suspending the release of a poll on Gen Prawit's luxury wristwatches.
'If they don't want me, I'll leave'
News, Wassana Nanuam & Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 01/02/2018
» Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon said Wednesday he would quit if that is the public's wish but also defended his track record over the last half a century as both a military man and a holder of public office.
Prayut refuses to set election date
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth and Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 07/02/2018
» The general election will take place after all election-related laws are promulgated, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said Tuesday after a mobile cabinet meeting in Chanthaburi.
Fiddling figures
News, Postbag, Published on 16/02/2018
» Re: 'Watch-scandal polling shenanigans sully decent debate' (Opinion, Feb 15).