Opposition candidate Tsai Ing-wen has been elected Taiwan's first female president.

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi says she would be "above the president" if her National League for Democracy wins Sunday's election.

Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is to remain in prison after his request for a royal pardon was turned down

US president Abraham Lincoln once elaborated on the dangers facing the Americans. He said some trans-Atlantic military wasn't going to crush them with a blow. Nor all the armies of Europe and Asia “could by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years.” He then said if destruction was the lot of the Americans, it must be them who will be its author and finisher. As a nation, he concluded, the Americans will either live as free men forever or die by suicide.

The family of jailed Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim seeks royal pardon over his conviction for sodomy.