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Bangkok Votes For New Governor In A Decade

Bangkok went to the polls Sunday in its first governor election in almost a decade, with the ballot viewed as an indicator for a national vote expected within a year.Around four million people are eligible to vote in the first major poll since Thailand's huge youth-led street protests in 2020 demanding political change and reform to the once-untouchable monarchy.But daily life rather than politics has dominated the candidates' campaigns, with the leading contenders promising to clea

22 May 2022
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Jakarta ex-governor freed from prison

Jakarta's former governor was released from prison Thursday, nearly two years after his blasphemy conviction fanned fears of religious intolerance in the world's biggest Muslim-majority nation.Basuki Tjahaja Purnama – the Indonesian capital's first non-Muslim governor in half a century and its first ethnic Chinese leader – left a prison outside the capital after dawn.Supporters of the Christian ex-governor, who is popularly known as Ahok, gathered outside the prison, chanting a

25 January 2019
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