National carrier told to quickly finalise new business plan ahead of election.

Tokyo - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won comfortable re-election as leader of his ruling party Thursday, setting him on course to become Japan's longest-serving premier and realise his dream of reforming the constitution.

Facebook on Wednesday said it will have a "war room" up and running on its Silicon Valley campus to quickly repel efforts to use the social network to meddle in upcoming elections.

Gerrymandering, according to Wikipedia, is “a practice intended to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries”.

CONSTITUENCY CANDIDATES DOWN BY 25, BUT ADDITIONS TO PARTY LIST WILL STILL LEAVE PARLIAMENT WITH 5O0 LAWMAKERS

In its third election as a full-fledged democracy, Bhutanese came out in large numbers to oust the ruling People's Democratic Party run by Harvard-educated Tshering Tobgay.

KEY GOVERNMENT figures yesterday asked for cooperation from local community leaders to help maintain peace and order in the run-up to the election.

THE NATIONAL Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) has given the go-ahead for political activities to resume after four years of suppression, but doubt and distrust remain prevalent among the parties eyeing the next election.

Two new laws to be passed before election for supervision of state enterprises

New Delhi - Bhutan's prime minister conceded defeat Sunday, after the ruling party was knocked out in the first round of the small Himalayan nation's third-ever election.

The Bhum Jai Thai Party will hold a meeting of its executive board on September 24 to start election preparations, party deputy secretary-general Supachai Jaisamut said on Saturday.

The Democrat Party will hold a meeting of its executive board on Monday to discuss holding a party caucus to start preparations for the election next year, deputy leader Ong-arj Klampaibul said on Saturday.

A proposal from the opposition camp that the official presidential debate be held in English instead of Indonesian has been met with jeers from the incumbent's supporters, who say the proposal is preposterous while facetiously suggesting that it could lead to debates in Arabic. 

FOR THE first time since the 2014 coup, political parties are now allowed to convene and make preparations for the upcoming election.

Economic growth will accelerate next year as confidence and investment increase following an announcement about the general election and amid generous state spending, Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak said on Friday.