Burma sets date for popular votes
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Burma's military junta announces a constitutional referendum in May and a general election in 2010.
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Pakistan is to hold its presidential election on 6 October, the election commission announces.
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Burma's government says its draft constitution has been completed, paving the way for a referendum in May.
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Iraqi authorities set Jan. 30 as the date for the nation's first election since the collapse of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship and pledged that voting would take place throughout the country despite rising violence and calls by Sunni clerics for a boycott.
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Human rights groups use Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's birthday to call for her release.
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Pakistan's election commission is to meet to decide when polls originally scheduled for 8 January will take place.
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Bhutan will hold its first democratic elections on March 24, ending nearly 100 years of absolute monarchy in the isolated Himalayan nation, officials said Thursday.
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Pakistani electoral officials will decide on Tuesday whether to go ahead with a January 8 poll, with expectations it will be delayed by up to two months after Benazir Bhutto's killing.
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Hong Kong voters are expected to turn out in record numbers today for a legislative election in which pro-democracy groups are expected to win most of the votes, but not most of the seats, pollsters said yesterday.
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Military-ruled Burma says it will stick with its âroad mapâ to democracy despite the juntaâs recent purge of the prime minister who proposed it, but is ducking questions on when pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will go free.
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Poll organisers in Afghanistan set a deadline for allegations of voter fraud before the ballot count may begin.
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Nepal's ruling coalition announces that elections to a special assembly will be held in  November.
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The protests that shook Burma in September might have been crushed, but opponents of the military regime have not gone away, reports Chris McGreal
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Jamaicans are due to vote in a general election which is expected to be the closest contest for years.
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MULTAN, Pakistan  - The strength of a sympathy vote for assassinated Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto in the country's biggest province is likely to determine the result of a general election on February 18.
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Supporters of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi protested Tuesday to demand democracy in Myanmar, days after the military regime said it would hold elections in 2010 under a new constitution likely to entrench the junta's powerful position.
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Pro-democracy advocates called Sunday for Myanmar's junta to honor the 1990 election results, the last democratic vote in a country that has seen nearly two decades of military rule.