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    Tagged: election

    Feature Lead Story Opinion

    Mobilizing Young, First-time Voters is an Investment in Myanmar’s Future

    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 to pick conciliatory cabinet

    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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    Interview: Outgoing MP Hla Swe and the candidate that beat him

    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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    2015 Elections Lead Story News

    Election results 12

    At approximately 3pm local time, Chairperson Tin Aye announced the results of 50 Upper House seats.

    2015 Elections Lead Story News Politics

    Burmese govt congratulates Suu Kyi on incoming majority

    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.

    We ‘will accept any outcome’: USDP vice-chairman video

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    We ‘will accept any outcome’: USDP vice-chairman

    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.

    VIDEO: Early birds cast pre-dawn ballots video

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    VIDEO: Early birds cast pre-dawn ballots

    In Kawhmu, a rural district south of Rangoon, elderly voters, perhaps those most used to an early wake-up, file into the voting booth.

    Home-to-vote contingent hope to swing election video

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    Home-to-vote contingent hope to swing election

    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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    Ruling party holds last-push rally in Rangoon

    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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    NLD lodges formal complaint against President

    Suu Kyi’s party alleges that Thein Sein has been campaigning on behalf of the USDP during official visits across the country.

    Burma’s Muslims seek rights, security in upcoming polls video

    2015 Elections Lead Story News Video

    Burma’s Muslims seek rights, security in upcoming polls

    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.

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    Election commission moves to dispel voter list fears

    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

    Election debate: What’s at stake for Burma’s youth? video

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    Election debate: What’s at stake for Burma’s youth?

    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?

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    Can soldiers vote in Burma’s elections without fear?

    “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.

    Curtain raiser: Advance voting begins video

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    Curtain raiser: Advance voting begins

    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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    DVB speaks to EU chief observer Alexander Graf Lambsdorff

    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 speaks to US Ambassador Derek Mitchell

    DVB sat down with Ambassador Mitchell to discuss how the challenge an the opportunity of Burma’s upcoming election. How resilient is Burmese democracy?

    2015 Elections Lead Story Military News

    Top brass told to vote with military in mind

    Burma’s most senior military official instructed fellow officers on Tuesday to keep army interests in mind when casting their ballots next month.

    2015 Elections Lead Story Migrants Issues News

    Four million disenfranchised at home and abroad

    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.

    2015 Elections Lead Story News

    Quell religious tension ahead of vote: US

    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.

    VIDEO: NLD preps voters for election day video

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    VIDEO: NLD preps voters for election day

    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.

    EU observers fan out ahead of election video

    2015 Elections Lead Story News Video

    EU observers fan out ahead of election

    The group was expected to travel across 14 states in Burma, and operate for around five to six weeks.

    Youth-designed election app bridges communication gap video

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    Youth-designed election app bridges communication gap

    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.

    2015 Elections Interview Lead Story News Politics

    Trevor Wilson: ‘I don’t think history will re-evaluate Suu Kyi’

    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.

    2015 Elections Lead Story News Video

    Election 2015: Polls won’t open in Karen State’s east

    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.

    2015 Elections Lead Story News

    Ruffled feathers: Parties squabble over peacock motif

    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.

    2015 Elections Interview Lead Story News Politics

    ‘No country in the world can hold a totally fair election’: Aung Thu

    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.

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    Angelina Jolie urges Burmese to vote

    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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    Election 2015: Revised voter lists fail to impress

    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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    Interview: ANP candidate Htoo May

    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.

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