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Based on 10 verified sources covering Myanmar:
In politics, so the saying goes, there are no permanent enemies and no permanent friends—only permanent interests. [1]
Shwe Mann, a leading lawmaker with presidential ambitions, has been urged by the Burmese community in the United States to focus on legislation that would help sustain Burma’s current peace process. [2]
RANGOON — Burma’s Union Parliament speaker, Shwe Mann, has met with ethnic Wa rebel leaders from the United Wa State Army (UWSA) in east Burma’s Shan State, in the first sit-down between the parliamentary leader and Burma’s largest ethnic armed group... (confirmed by 3 sources) [3]
RANGOON — Lawmakers have blamed Shwe Mann’s close relationship with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and constitutional flaws for the overnight removal of the parliamentary speaker from his party leadership position, as lawmakers of all stripes dow... [4]
RANGOON — Wednesday evening’s dramatic putsch against Shwe Mann loyalists in the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) appears to have been in motion since at least the beginning of the month. [5]
In politics, so the saying goes, there are no permanent enemies and no permanent friends—only permanent interests.
Shwe Mann, a leading lawmaker with presidential ambitions, has been urged by the Burmese community in the United States to focus on legislation that would help sustain Burma’s current peace process.
RANGOON — Burma’s Union Parliament speaker, Shwe Mann, has met with ethnic Wa rebel leaders from the United Wa State Army (UWSA) in east Burma’s Shan State, in the first sit-down between the parliamentary leader and Burma’s largest ethnic armed group
RANGOON — Lawmakers have blamed Shwe Mann’s close relationship with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and constitutional flaws for the overnight removal of the parliamentary speaker from his party leadership position, as lawmakers of all stripes dow
RANGOON — Wednesday evening’s dramatic putsch against Shwe Mann loyalists in the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) appears to have been in motion since at least the beginning of the month.
NAYPYIDAW — Burma has gagged media linked to parliamentary Speaker Shwe Mann after he and his allies were dramatically purged from the leadership of the ruling party by President Thein Sein on Thursday months before a historic general election.
Before he voluntarily retired in 2011, Senior General Than Shwe, the chief of Myanmar’s then-ruling junta, laid out a master plan for the country’s immediate political future.
RANGOON — A power struggle between President Thein Sein and Union Parliament Speaker Shwe Mann has resulted in a division in Parliament between army representatives and MPs from the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), lawmakers say.
NAYPYIDAW — Burma’s Lower House Speaker Shwe Mann told The Irrawaddy on Friday that he is interested in succeeding President Thein Sein in 2015. “Yes, I would like to,” Shwe Mann said when asked about the position.
RANGOON — Politicians and analysts have welcomed the abrupt decision to establish a committee to review the much-criticized 2008 Constitution, amid speculation that it could help bolster the position of Lower House Speaker Shwe Mann.