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Indonesian president plans to move capital city: minister
Reuters, Published on 29/04/2019
» JAKARTA: Indonesian President Joko Widodo has decided to move the capital of Southeast Asia's largest economy away from the crowded main island of Java, the planning minister said on Monday.
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UN: Cambodian election curbs may smother debate
Reuters, Published on 15/06/2018
» PHNOM PENH: Vaguely worded Cambodian media rules could bring sweeping restrictions that prevent journalists reporting on controversial issues in the run-up to a general election, UN rights monitors warned on Friday.
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Malaysia regulator denies pressure to cancel AirAsia flights
Reuters, Published on 15/05/2018
» KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's aviation regulator on Tuesday denied it had ordered budget airline AirAsia to cancel extra flights to help voters return home for Malaysia's recent election.
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Cambodia launches campaign to promote election
Reuters, Published on 04/05/2018
» PHNOM PENH: Cambodia's election panel on Friday began a campaign to get voters to turn out for a July 29 general election, despite the concerns of some Western nations and the United Nations that the vote might not be free or fair after a key opposition party ban.
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Facebook apologises but public lose faith
Reuters, Published on 26/03/2018
» Fewer than half of Americans trust Facebook to obey US privacy laws, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Sunday, while a survey published by <i>Bild am Sonntag</i>, Germany's largest-selling Sunday paper, found 60% of Germans fear that Facebook and other social networks are having a negative impact on democracy.
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Brazil's ex-president Lula jailed for corruption
Reuters, Published on 09/04/2018
» SAO PAULO: Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva spent his first night in jail on a corruption conviction on Sunday as his allies hoped future protests and court decisions would free him.
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Najib dissolves parliament, paving way for tough election
Reuters, Published on 06/04/2018
» KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced the dissolution of parliament on Friday, more than two months before the end of his five-year term, paving the way for a general election.
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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.
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Nepal votes; army blames rogue Maoists for blasts
Reuters, Published on 26/11/2017
» KATHMANDU: Nepalis began voting for a new parliament on Sunday with the army on alert as a series of small blasts blamed on a rogue Maoist group reminded the Himalayan nation of the violence and instability it is hoping to leave behind.
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Spanish police move to ban Catalan independence poll
Reuters, Published on 30/09/2017
» BARCELONA: Spanish police sealed off schools earmarked as polling stations and occupied the Catalan government's communications hub on Saturday in efforts to prevent a banned independence referendum.
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