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Burma has a new civilian government, but the military remains a powerful player in the country’s politics. Our panelists discuss how and when this can be expected to change.
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The revelation comes a day after the President’s Office warned an unnamed media company — believed to be Sky Net — about attempting to bribe officials.
No details about the subject of the meeting were released, but it is believed that political prisoners were on the agenda.
Military-appointed members of Burma’s parliament say that introducing a new role equal in power to the president would be unconstitutional.
Emotions were high in Burma’s parliament today as Htin Kyaw, the country’s first president in more than fifty years to hail from a non-military background, was sworn in.
Burma’s top general uses Armed Forces Day to remind the country of the military’s key role in politics ahead of next Friday’s NLD takeover.
China is pursuing efforts to resolve the problem of a stalled dam project in Burma, its foreign minister said on Tuesday.
When her father died of AIDS in 2003, Pyae Phu Khaing* was just three years old, and only two years later her mother died of the same disease.
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The election-winning NLD will install its own MPs as the chief ministers of Burma’s 14 state and divisions, a party spokesperson has said.
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As he cements himself as the second most powerful figure in Burma post-election, Min Aung Hlaing has transformed himself from soldier into a politician.
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Burma’s cities are attracting an increasing number of rural poor, but efforts to provide them with affordable housing are falling short.
Dr. Zaw Myint Maung talks about the NLD’s landslide win, the move from national to regional parliament and the challenges Mandalay Region is facing.
Burma’s parliament will begin its election of the new president on 17 March, cutting very close to the 1 April deadline.
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The new parliament’s lower house on Friday appointed the former lower house and union speaker as the chairperson of the Legal Affairs and Special Issues Assessment Commission.
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Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi pushed the message of national reconciliation on Wednesday, lauding the choice of representatives from ethnic minorities and the army-backed party as parliamentary speakers in a chamber dominated by her allies.
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Burma’s second parliament began on Monday with a session of the lower house in Naypyidaw, where the orange tunics of the National League for Democracy (NLD) provided bright reflection of the party’s thundering 2015 election win.
The issue of how far to go in reaching out to former foes from nearly half a century of military rule may prove one of the first faultlines to emerge within the NLD.
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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.
Experts say a holistic approach is needed to resolve Rangoon’s worsening traffic jams, but the government’s response has been to tinker around the edges.
Opium cultivation remains a lucrative source of income for many farmers, but the illegal industry is facing renewed scrutiny in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi started collecting litter in her constituency on Sunday as part of a nationwide campaign to make Burma trash-free.
The US Army’s commander in Asia said on Tuesday that he was eager for closer ties to the military in Burma after the NLD’s landslide election victory.
Villagers say they have been baffled by the appearance of an unusual, yellow dust that has sprinkled over their town in Kachin State this week.
Poets have long expressed the mood of Burma’s repressed people through verse. Now, 11 of them, all representing the NLD, will help write the nation’s laws.
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Burma’s former dictator sees Suu Kyi as the country’s “future leader” and has pledged to support her, despite her being barred from the presidency.
The US on Thursday called for a credible, independent investigation by Burma’s government of reports of military atrocities in the country’s Shan State.
More than 95 percent of confiscated lands – some 350,000 acres – have been returned to farmers across Burma, according to the government’s Land Utilisation Management Committee, noting that just 17,091 acres are left to be returned nationwide.
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Amidst an ongoing clash between government troops and the Kachin Independence Army, DVB spoke to KIA representative La Nan.
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The incoming parliament is set to have double the women of the previous government – but will that result in adequate representation?
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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.
