The diplomatic missions of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden to Myanmar, are organizing their annual Nordic Day Event on 14 February. The topic of this year’s Nordic Day is Mobilization[…]
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Suu Kyi will form a cabinet of technocrats, including ethnic minority representatives and at least one member of the vanquished USDP.
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DVB sits down with Hla Swe and the National League for Democracy’s Than Soe, the candidate that beat him out of the Upper House seat of Gangnaw, Sagaing Division.
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At approximately 3pm local time, Chairperson Tin Aye announced the results of 50 Upper House seats.
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Burma’s incumbent government has acknowledged that the opposition National League for Democracy [NLD] party is cruising to a majority in the country’s next parliament.
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Htay Oo has admitted defeat in his own bid to win a seat, but media reports that the USDP have conceded the election are unfounded.
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In Kawhmu, a rural district south of Rangoon, elderly voters, perhaps those most used to an early wake-up, file into the voting booth.
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Over a hundred Burmese voters living in Singapore flew to Rangoon on Friday to cast their ballots before polls close over the weekend.
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Just five days after opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi held a rally at Thuwanna pagoda, the ruling Union and Solidarity Development Party attracted roughly 10,000 people decked out in green at the very same spot for their own final campaign push.
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Suu Kyi’s party alleges that Thein Sein has been campaigning on behalf of the USDP during official visits across the country.
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Muslim candidates have been disproportionately disqualified from running in the 8 November election in a selection process that “lacked credibility”, according to American election monitors the Carter Center.
The Union Election Commission has begun issuing voter slips to residents whose details appear incorrectly on the existing voter lists, in hopes of reassuring eager voters that their voice will be heard on the 8 November election day
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A new politically charged generation has the chance to vote for the first time. What will be the issues in their minds as they go to the polls?
“We cannot have a preference for a particular party. Under the current circumstances, we will have to vote for the USDP only,” said an army official from Karen State.
Civil servants, police and elderly locals in Prome were among the first citizens within Burma to cast their votes in the historic general election as pre-voting opened across the country on Thursday.
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The German discussed the mandate that his team has been issued, and how they will use it to contribute to electoral fairness in Burma.
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DVB sat down with Ambassador Mitchell to discuss how the challenge an the opportunity of Burma’s upcoming election. How resilient is Burmese democracy?
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Burma’s most senior military official instructed fellow officers on Tuesday to keep army interests in mind when casting their ballots next month.
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When Burma goes to the polls on 8 November, more than 10 percent of 33.5 million people officially eligible to vote won’t be able to.
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The United States said on Tuesday that the use of religion in politics violated Burma’s constitution, calling on the government to de-escalate religious tensions running high ahead of next month’s election.
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Aung San Suu Kyi’s party is pushing the slogan ‘Time for Change’ in Burma. Volunteers in their leader’s electorate say that change begins at home.
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The group was expected to travel across 14 states in Burma, and operate for around five to six weeks.
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For the 33.5 million Burmese voters who head to the polls on 8 November — many of whom will be first-time voters, choosing from more than 6,000 candidates, is not an easy task.
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Australia’s former ambassador to Burma, Trevor Wilson, speaks about how far Burma has come since his tenure, and why he thinks Thein Sein is under-valued.
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Some ten thousand Karen would-be voters have been disenfranchised after Burma’s election commission announced that 102 villages in Burma’s east are too dangerous for polls to go ahead.
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Research of 93 parties registered with the Union Election Commission shows many parties have resorted to similar symbols and names: five using a fighting peacock, four using a dancing peacock and two parties with a bamboo hat.
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88 Generation activist Aung Thu, who is running as an independent after being rejected by the NLD, speaks about his motivations and the USDP’s strategy.
UNHCR ambassador Angelina Jolie Pitt has urged the people of Burma to check voter lists and exercise their right to vote in the upcoming general election.
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The latest voter list released by the Union Election Commission is still riddled with irregularities, according to voters across the country.
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Htoo May, the ANP candidate contesting the upper house seat in constituency number 11, Ann and Ramee townships, spoke to DVB about her campaign plans.
