Poll blow for Hong Kong democrats
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Hong Kong's pro-democracy parties are on course to net fewer seats  than expected in legislative elections.
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Hong Kong's main pro-democracy party  demanded on Monday a partial recount of the vote in the city's  legislative elections, after officials had failed to announce a  single result eight hours after polls closed.
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HONG KONG An already heated legislative election campaign here took an unexpected turn Tuesday with an announcement by the Democratic Party that one of its candidates has been arrested in mainland China and sentenced without trial to six months in ...
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Hong Kong held a referendum on Sunday on the future, and the democracy activists won handily. In a record 55 per cent turnout, people voted solidly for parties that have been lobbying Beijing to let Hong Kong&#39;s
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For Hong Kong&#39;s democracy activists, the results of legislative elections announced yesterday suggest that the deck will remain stacked against them for years to come.
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Pro-democracy candidates won limited  gains in Hong Kong's Legislative Council election on Sunday and  the pro-Beijing camp achieved a better-than-expected showing,  exit polls showed.
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Democrats in Wisconsin and Hawaii were heading to the polls Tuesday in a presidential campaign that has grown increasingly negative with charges of broken promises, plagiarism and petty partisanship.
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Taipei (AsiaNews) - Polling stations will close at 4 pm (local time, GMT +8). Over 16.5 million Taiwanese voters will have had the opportunity of casting their ballot to elect 225 members of parliament.
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The arrest in south China of a Hong Kong pro-democracy politician for hiring a prostitute has eroded support for his party and hurt its chance of victory in the city&#39;s legislative elections next month.
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Hong Kong's democracy activists are fighting a losing battle with Beijing for direct elections in 2012. But they've still made advances in the longer war
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HONG KONG - If Hong Kong political candidates finish in a dead heat, the election will be decided by the luck of the draw - from a bag of numbered pingpong balls.    It may sound more like bingo than politics, but under Hong Kong electoral rules, the tied candidates must each pick a ball at random...
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Hong Kong voters go to the polls Sunday to elect legislators with limited powers, in balloting that may test the strength of the city&#39;s pro-democracy movement.
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Taiwan&#39;s pro-independence parties lost a hotly contested legislative election Saturday - a defeat that might reduce the risk of a conflict with China but also continue the political gridlock that has paralyzed one of Asia&#39;s youngest democracies.
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Hong Kong residents voted on Sunday  in a legislative election seen as a referendum on greater  democracy and a test of popularity for China's communist rulers  in the former British colony.
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Taiwanese President Chen Shui-Bian&#39;s Democratic Progressive Party failed to capture a majority in the country&#39;s parliamentary elections held over the weekend.
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ONG KONG, Aug. 17  An already heated election campaign for the legislature here took an unexpected turn today with an announcement by the Democratic Party that one of its candidates had been arrested in mainland China on charges of ...
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HONG KONG, Sept.13, 2004âPro-democracy parties in Hong Kong made small gains in Sunday&#39;s Legislative Council elections but said mass protests of July 1 had failed to translate into stronger support for their candidates.