BURMA

January 20 2015

“A mass rally organised by the National League for Democracy (NLD) in honour of the centennial of Bogyoke (General) Aung San’s birthday, which falls on February 13, was launched in Yangon on January 18 with an address by Thura Tin Oo, a leader of the NLD.”

http://www.elevenmyanmar.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8731%3Athousands-join-rally-celebrating-aung-san-s-birthday-centennial&catid=44%3Anational&Itemid=384

Rohingya Demonstrate in Favor of Voting Rights

January 13 2015

Rohingyas living in refugee camps in Sittwe Township in Rakhine State have d semonstrated for the right to vote in the upcoming 2015 general elections during the visit of UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar.

http://bdnews24.com/neighbours/2015/01/12/rohingya-demonstrate-in-favour-of-voting-rights

CAMBODIA

January 20 2015

 A senior leader of the country’s main opposition party has again called on the ruling Cambodian People’s Party to order the release of several party members and supporters who have been in jail since they were arrested following a violent protest in the capital in July last year.

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/free-cnrp-members-kem-sokha

CNRP Officially Nominates Rainsy as ‘Minority Leader’
January 14 2015

 Opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Monday that the CNRP’s parliamentary delegation had officially nominated him to become the new “minority leader” of the National Assembly.

https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-officially-nominates-rainsy-as-minority-leader-75957/

HONGKONG

January 20 2015

CALD Individual Member and Founding Chairman of Hong Kong Democratic Party, Martin Lee, lawyered for the release of a girl who chalked up flowers.

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/wall-01192015170459.html

INDONESIA

January 14 2015

Jokowi said he was fully aware that the policy was unpopular among the public. He insisted, however, that the policy must go ahead. “I’ve been told that if fuel prices increase, my popularity will decline. But I’m not working for popularity; I’m working for the people,” he said.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/01/13/jokowi-working-people-not-popularity.html

Jokowi ‘Not Worried’ if Popularity Declines

January 13 2015

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has said he would not be bothered if he lost his popularity.

The former Jakarta governor made his comments in response to a question about what he would do if his recent controversial policies, such as the fuel-subsidy cut, turned people against him.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/01/12/jokowi-not-worried-if-popularity-declines.html

Megawati Ready to Lead PDI-P until 2020

January 12 2015

Megawati Sukarnoputri, president of Indonesia from 2000 until 2004 and chairwoman of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) since 1998, says she has decided to accept calls from her party members to lead the party until 2020.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/01/10/megawati-ready-lead-pdi-p-until-2020.html

Presidential Bow

January 12 2014

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo (center) pays his respects to a grinning Megawati Soekarnoputri, the chairwoman of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), as Home Minister Tjahjo Kumolo (left) looks on at party headquarters in Jakarta on Saturday. The trio assembled for a party to mark the PDI-P’s 42nd anniversary. (Antara/Muhammad Adimaja)

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/01/11/presidential-bow.html#sthash.93HFDYKX.dpuf

PHILIPPINES

January 20 2014

 Pope Leaves Millions Blessed, Awed in Luneta

January 20 2015

In his homily, the Pope urged Filipinos to shun “social structures which perpetuate poverty, ignorance and corruption”, a theme he stressed when he held talks with President Benigno Aquino III on Friday. Aquino attended the Mass.

Continuing his strong message to the Filipino family and the youth, Pope Francis asked Filipino families and communities to work together to build a “world of justice, integrity and peace.”

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/popefrancis/story/409430/pope-leaves-millions-blessed-awed-in-luneta-mass

SINGAPORE

January 20 2015

I wrote in 2010 that whenever the elections draw near, the PAP never fails to resurrect Mr Chaim See Tong’s departure from the SDP and run the story that I had ousted Mr Chiam and usurped his post.

http://yoursdp.org/news/answering_chan_chun_sing_on_mr_chiam/2015-01-20-5940

SDP Launches GE Campaign: We Hope the PAP will Debate us

January 12 2015

The SDP will focus on our alternative policies at the next GE and called on Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to have a national debate on issues that Singaporeans are concerned about.

http://yoursdp.org/news/sdp_launches_ge_campaign_we_hope_the_pap_will_debate_us/2015-01-10-5933

SRI LANKA

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the Minister of Planning and Economic Development before President Maithripala Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat a short while ago.

http://www.dailymirror.lk/61073/new-cabinet-ministers-sworn-in

TAIWAN

January 20 2015

On Wednesday, January 14, young leaders from the Democratic Progressive Party joined their counterparts in the KMT and other student leaders in a video-conference with young policymakers in the US. The event was hosted by the American Institute in Taiwan:http://english.dpp.org.tw/dpp-youth-join-ait-hosted-discussion/

DPP Leaders Eyes By-Election Wins
January 12 2015

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said she expects the party’s candidates to fight for victory in all five legislative by-elections next month.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2015/01/12/2003609057

DPP Hopes for Sweep in Legislative By-Elections
January 12 2015

Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen said Saturday she expects the party’s candidates to fight for victory in all five legislative by-elections next month.

http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201501100024.aspx

LIBERAL INTERNATIONAL

“LI Deputy President Helen Zille (Democratic Alliance) has been shortlisted as inspirational leader of 2014 by CNN! Together with [C]ALD Honorary Member, Aung San Suu Kyi and Kathleen Wynne, she was selected as one of the inspirational women of 2014 in the category ‘Politics’.”

goo.gl/dNcIf8