Best hope dashed, HK democrats stumble to March vote
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Hong Kong's pan-democrats are   scrambling to agree on a way forward after their best hope for   leadership of the Chinese region bowed out of March's election.
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BERLIN : Germany&#39;s two main political parties wound up the losers in local elections at the weekend but Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#39;s Social Democrats (SPD) have taken heart by avoiding a new rout.
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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'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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Democrats have tightened their grip on Hong Kong&#39;s legislature, but still have no mandate to push their agenda of universal suffrage in the southern Chinese enclave.
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On the morning after the results of the Hong Kong voting are announced, I&#39;m waiting by Exit A at the Kowloon Bay MTR subway station way up in the New Territories of Hong Kong, dialing and re-dialing my cell phone, trying to connect with a guy who calls
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Under pressure from state and local officials, Democratic leaders in Congress are slowing their drive to revamp the nationâs voting systems.
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Hong Kong residents voted on Sunday in a legislative election that could bring big gains for the democracy camp, which has angered Beijing by demanding universal suffrage in the former British colony.
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Hong Kong pro-democracy candidates,  stung by scandal, made limited gains against the Beijing camp  in legislative polls as voters wary of alienating their  communist rulers chose stability, results showed on Monday.
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Three days after the voting ended, the race for Democratic delegates in Super Tuesday's contests was still too close to call.
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A proposal to cut off money for military operations in Iraq fell far short in the Senate today, a day after Democrats lost their best chance of changing the course of the war.
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Voters in Hong Kong start the process of electing a new leader, with pro-democrats hoping for gains.
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Legislative candidates made their final appeals to voters Saturday in a fiercely contested political showdown that could give pro-democracy opposition figures the most clout they&#39;ve had since Hong Kong was returned to China.
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A string of political setbacks has damaged Republicans' hopes of regaining the Senate majority next year and increased the likelihood Democrats might expand their razor-thin margin.
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A series of tactical errors, with peculiarities in the voting process, prevented democracy advocates from winning as many seats as expected in Sunday&#39;s legislative elections, politicians and political analysts said on Monday.
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After a campaign marred by scandal and alleged intimidation, the people of Hong Kong voted Sunday under gray skies in legislative elections that could give pro-democracy figures more clout than they have held since China reclaimed Hong Kong in July 1997.
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A series of tactical errors, with peculiarities in the voting process, prevented democracy advocates here from winning as many seats as expected in Sunday&#39;s legislative