The afternoon of the Democrat Party dissolution case on 29 November 2010, I drove to a small Red Shirt event in Samphran, Nakhon Pathom province, about one hour outside of Bangkok. The local Red Shirt group organised a stage there. There was quite a police presence, but not overwhelmingly so. The province is not under [...]
A small stage, a ping pong bomb and a burning spirit house
December 1st, 2010 by Nick Nostitz, Guest Contributor · 12 Comments
Discrimination by law: Malaysia’s absentee voters want to be counted
December 1st, 2010 by William de Cruz and Greg Lopez · Add a Comment
Hundreds of thousands of Malaysians living overseas have been locked out of voting in every federal election since 2002 because Malaysian law has discriminated against them. Laws under which Malaysia’s election commission operates only allow four categories of citizens living abroad to cast their votes as ‘absent voters’, defined in general terms as registered voters [...]
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