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Myanmar’s predictable but unpredictable election outcome
Myanmar is moving towards a general election later this year which, while likely to bring about significant changes to the government and ...Tags: 2015 Elections
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How Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is allowing U Thein Sein to become Myanmar’s...
Recent events reveal surprising insights into which national ...Tags: 2015 Elections
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Monitoring an election
The International Crisis Group recently released a report on the 2015 Myanmar election landscape, listing its concerns with the process and assessing crucial issues such as constitutional reforms...
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Discrimination hardly guarantees a fair election
As campaigning continues for 8 November elections, wide-ranging discrimination continues to be a serious concern as Rohingya Muslims, ...
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Myanmar’s political rookies polish message in pre-election training
In a packed, windowless room, 40 or so candidates preparing to run in Myanmar’s general election listen in rapt attention as ...
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Activists in race to push an apathetic electorate to register and vote
On a recent hot afternoon on a bustling street in Hlaing Thayar Township, residents and stall keepers were shading themselves from ...
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International IDEA offers technical support for the Myanmar election
The International Institute of Democracy and Electoral Assistance - or International IDEA for short – is an intergovernmental group ...Tags: interview
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‘Politicians should design a clear roadmap for change and restore public...
Khin Ma Ma Myo is the founder and executive director of ...Tags: interview
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Myanmar elections will ‘not loosen military’s grip on business’
The outcome of Myanmar’s forthcoming national elections will do nothing to reduce the military’s business control over ...
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Beyond NLD, Yangon voters stumped on smaller parties
It’s the National League for Democracy or nothing, according to a straw poll of voters in Yangon townships carried out ...
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Trials of a first-time voter in Myanmar
It was early afternoon, but the small prayer hall was dark, its walls and pillars lined with wooden boards with sheets of A4 paper glued to them.
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Myanmar drops proposed election delay
Myanmar election authorities Tuesday confirmed that landmark polls would go ahead on November 8 in a national broadcast, after Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition rejected official suggestions that ...
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‘A new government should be able to end any riot’
(Interview) Hla Toe, vice chairman of the Kaman National Progressive Party, is contesting for a Lower House seat in ...
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Will there be any Muslim MPs in Myanmar’s Parliament?
On Nov. 8, Myanmar will go to the polls in what has been billed as the first free and fair parliamentary election in 25 years, ...
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Of millions of Myanmar migrants in Thailand, just a fraction set to vote
The details of that morning 25 years ago are hazy but Than Than Aye remembers vividly the palpable excitement as ...
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Voices of Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand
It is estimated that 2.5 to 3 million Myanmar workers are toiling away in Thailand, at least half a million of whom are in ...
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Amending the constitution? We’ll try our best
Mi Kon Chan comes from a distinguished family in Mon state in eastern Myanmar. Her father is the vice -chairman of the Mon National Party, .... Tags: interview
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Myanmar’s new nationalist party surges into election race
With just weeks before Myanmar’s landmark elections, a fleet of cars covered with stickers of the National Development Party ...
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Can soldiers vote in Myanmar elections without fear?
At the end of a day’s training in a vast military compound in the suburbs of Yangon, Corporal Khin Maung Than and three of ...
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“Some people are surprised our party has survived”
Phyu Phyu Nyunt is a Yangon Region parliament candidate for the National Unity Party (NUP) in Mingalar Taung Nyunt ...Tags: interview
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