Observers from the European Union’s Election Observation Mission on Tuesday refused to call the Burma’s national poll “truly genuine” given the fact that the military commands an automatic 25 percent of seats without being elected, as well as the mass disenfranchisement of Muslim candidates and Rohingya voters.

Independent election observers monitoring Burma's general election acknowledge their ability to criticise the government is limited.

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.

OPINION: Police were overwhelmingly responsible for the violent confrontation with student protestors in Letpadan, writes researcher Matthew Bugher.

Jailed for religious defamation, New Zealander Phil Blackwood is the sole foreigner on Amnesty International's list of 91 prisoners of conscience in Burma.