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Brazil votes with far-right candidate favorite
AFP, Published on 28/10/2018
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil began voting Sunday in a divisive presidential run-off election whose front-runner, far-right former army captain Jair Bolsonaro, is vowing to rescue the country from crisis with a firm grip.
Fresh twist in Sri Lanka crisis as Speaker recognises sacked PM
AFP, Published on 28/10/2018
» COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's speaker of parliament Sunday recognised Ranil Wickremesinghe as the lawful prime minister, three days after his sacking by the president threw the Indian Ocean island into constitutional chaos.
Female motortaxi drivers on the rise in Bangkok
AFP, Published on 28/10/2018
» Hair pulled back tightly as she lounges on her red scooter, Ar is a rare sight among the male-dominated ranks of Bangkok's "Win" motortaxi riders plying their trade on the capital's treacherous roads.
Viroj elected Pheu Thai leader, Phumtham secretary-general
Online Reporters, Published on 28/10/2018
» Pol Lt Gen Viroj Pao-in and Phumtham Vechayachai, the acting leader and secretary-general of the Pheu Thai Party, were officially made party leader and party secretary-general at a general assembly on Sunday.
Pheu Thai picks Viroj as leader amid dissolution fears
Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 28/10/2018
» The main opposition Pheu Thai Party picked acting head Viroj Pao-in as its leader ahead of a general election expected in 2019 after more than four years of military rule.
Georgia ruling party faces test in presidential vote
AFP, Published on 28/10/2018
» TBILISI - Georgians on Sunday went to the polls to elect a figurehead president in a vote seen as a crucial test for the increasingly unpopular ruling party.
Polls open in Georgia presidential election
AFP, Published on 28/10/2018
» TBILISI - Georgians on Sunday started voting to elect a figurehead president in a poll seen as a crucial test for the increasingly unpopular ruling party.
Young voters find voice
News, Om Jotikasthira and Patpon Sabpaitoon, Published on 28/10/2018
» Just months after the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) eased the political ban allowing parties to recruit new members and select candidates, parties have now begun to float ideas about how to attract the support of first-time voters.
Ireland votes to lift blasphemy ban
AFP, Published on 28/10/2018
» DUBLIN - Ireland has voted to lift a rarely enforced constitutional ban on blasphemy in the latest secular reform for the once staunchly Catholic country, referendum results showed on Saturday.
The kids are all right
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 28/10/2018
» Prathet Ku Mee is no slapped-together concert song. It wasn't made, so much as crafted. The accusatory lyrics are set against the shameful, hovering background of the 1976 dictators' massacre at Thammasat University. The rap song's finale brings the background image of the hanged, beaten student to the front of the picture, before fading out to the hopeful message, "All people unite".