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“We’ve won by a landslide and we don’t want to give the ruling camp any excuse to strip us of our firepower in the parliament,” says a senior NLD official.
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This morning at 9am local time, Burma’s election commission announced another batch of election results, declaring 27 seats in the Lower House.
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The Union Election Commission has released the tenth round of general election results.
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Aung San Suu Kyi’s party surges ahead with 25 Lower House victories officially declared. But hundreds of ethnic and rural areas are yet to be announced.
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NLD warns supports against assuming victory ahead of results.
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House speaker and former chairman of the USDP Shwe Mann has conceded defeat to the National League for Democracy candidate in Phyu,
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Voting in Burma’s general election is well underway, and no major incidents have marred polling in the main cities.
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Polling stations have opened across the country as some 30 million voters decide.
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The ruling party hopes undeclared supporters will turn out to boost candidates on election day.
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Suu Kyi says the NLD will win the election decisively, after which it will nominate a president, and that she’lll take on a role ‘above the president’.
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Burma’s ruling party has quashed rumours that it has expelled its former chairman Shwe Mann.
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Moulmein USDP candidate Dr. Toe Toe Aung discusses his campaign challenges and offers some frank insight into the links between the Ma-Ba-Tha and USDP.
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“Some people are surprised our party has survived,” says National Unity Party candidate Phyu Phyu Nyunt.
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The National Development Party (NDP) may only be a few months old, but it already an electoral force to be reckoned with.
A new report applying genocide laws to the Rohingya situation in Arakan State has been released by human rights organisation Fortify Rights.
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Just two months ago, Shwe Mann looked set for political oblivion. Now, Reuters reports, his next step could be a tilt at the presidency.
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An estimated 250,000 Burmese nationals live and work in Singapore.
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After a day of uncertainty, Burma’s election commission announces that the country’s general election will go ahead as scheduled on 8 November.
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NLD candidate accuses ruling party of spiking his chances by refusing him access to the remote cluster of Indian Ocean islands.
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According to a straw poll by Myanmar Now, voters in Rangoon cannot see beyond Suu Kyi’s party.
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Thousands turned out, many on motorbikes and tractor carts, in this delta town, where almost every household subsists on rice cultivation and fishing.
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“Mr Barack Obama came here two times. What happened when he came here? Someone was kissed two times!” blasted Htay Oo at a Hinthada election rally.
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Political parties in Chin State say they are struggling to reach rural areas due to the destruction caused by last month’s floods.
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In a soft-spoken but positive TV broadcast last night, the NLD leader called for federalism and cooperation with the military.
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Aung San Suu Kyi rouses crowds in central Burma by promising that, if elected, her NLD would form a clean government, free from corruption.
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For a leader non-committal about his future, there is a whiff of a presidential campaign in Thein Sein’s uncharacteristic moves to flaunt his achievements.
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Government rejects foreign powers’ criticisms, saying the country has addressed religious concerns and that the election process is largely harmonious.
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The manifesto pledges to make the military “strategically efficient”, equip it with advanced technology, and include it in the executive system.
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Undeterred by his dismissal as ruling party chairman, Shwe Mann hits the campaign trail, promising voters in Phyu better transportation and electricity.
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The 2015 election is up and running. Political parties take to the streets on the first day of what is sure to be a tense and competitive campaign period.
