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There will be three presidential candidates competing in Taiwan’s 2016 presidential election. They are Tsai Ying Wen the leader of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Eric Chu who represents the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang, KMT) and James Soong from the People First Party (PFP). According to pre-election opinion polls, Tsai Ying Wen’s popularity rating is the highest, much greater than that of Eric Chu and his party that is currently in power. The third competitor James Soong’s influence is relatively insignificant. Therefore, people are expecting that the opposition party, the DPP, will defeat the KMT. The result of this ongoing campaign seems quite predictable.

On 13 October Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga nullified the permit to carry out land reclamation in Oura Bay, granted by the previous Governor Hirokazu Nakaima, explaining that it contains illegalities. We of the Anti-Helicopter Base Council unconditionally support this decision, and more than ever give our full backing to the Governor.

In 2014, like many people, Sai Fai had to endure pepper and tear gas at one of the the three occupation sites where he worked in Admiralty. This was where he learned the first lesson of politics. At first he was just curious about what the students were doing there but soon he was drawn into the movement to support the students. One day he asked himself the question, “the students are doing this for us, but what have we done?”

In the run up to the June 4th memorial, this article criticises Hong Kong right wing commentators, including publication ‘Passion Times’, who are attempting to mobilize an anti-memorial offensive by drawing nativist distinctions between Hong Kong and mainland China. The author argues that the nativists’ conclusions are completely wrong and that conflicts over mainland pregnant women giving birth in Hong Kong and over milk powder should not be exaggerated. He maintains that there are many reasons, such as human rights and democracy, to participate in the June 4th memorial that do not have anything to do with patriotism. On the question of democratization, the author argues that a long term solution requires an understanding of the root cause, which lies not with the people from the mainland but with their autocratic rulers and bureaucratic capitalism.

In Durban, South Africa, five heads of state meet in late March, to assure the rest of Africa that their countries’ firms are better investors in infrastructure, mining, oil and agriculture than the traditional European and US multinational corporations. The Brazil-Russia-India-China-SA (BRICS) summit will include 25 heads of state from Africa, many of whom are notorious tyrants.

YANGON, Myanmar — Hundreds of angry farmers heckled and walked out on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese politician and Nobel laureate, during a visit on Thursday to villages in central Myanmar that might be displaced by a copper mine.

A signature campaign initiated by the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission of Hong Kong http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/%E6%88%91%E5%80%91%E5%8F%8D%E5%B0%8D%E4%BA%BA%E5%A4%A7%E5%86%8D%E9%87%8B%E6%B3%95.html China Labour Net editorial note: In 2012 foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong filed a case to the court asking for the right of abode for themselves and their children. The Department of Justice responded by requesting that the city's highest court seek a clarification from the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) on its interpretation of the right of abode. Pan democrats here consider the move an infringement on HK’s autonomy, while social groups attack it for the way the move denies domestic workers of their right to seek justice through the court.

More that thirty groups call for boycott against the "small circle" method of electing the chief executive. They will organize a protest and march to Wan Chai Tower tomorrow. Here is the detail for the protest: Date: 25/3/2012 Time: 10:30am Starting Point: Southom Playground, Wan Chai (near Exit B2 of Wan Chai MTR station)

"This is scary but not as scary as what's happening to our future." It's a bright, cold November afternoon, and inside 30 Millbank, the headquarters of the Conservative Party, a line of riot police with shields and truncheons are facing down a groaning crowd of young people with sticks and smoke bombs.

The economic unraveling of Ireland highlights the severity of the financial crisis--and the increasingly severe government cutbacks that will be used to pay for it.