At least two new political parties in Burma will launch a website as a strategic part of their election campaign, according to party leaders. Leaders of the Union Democratic Party (UDP) and the Peace
Win Sein, who heads the information committee of the Union Democratic Party (UDP), told The Irrawaddy, that the party received permission to publish last week, but it is unable to print campaign relat
Members of the junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) are being favored for selection as members of election sub-commissions in wards and village tracts for the election to b
Burma's press censorship board, the Press Scrutiny and Registration Division (PSRD), is strictly censoring political news in weekly journals, causing the Peace and Diversity Party (PDP) to rethink its
While mandatory military service preoccupies much of the population, Myanmar’s junta is inviting public donations for restoration work in the World Heritage temple city of Bagan in central Myanmar. Ju
 Prime Minister Thein S
![Members of National League for Democracy party read journals under portraits of the country's martyrs, including Gen Aung San (4th L) founder of Burma Army and father of Aung San Suu Kyi, in their h
![Thura Shwe Mann (2R) and prime minister Thein Sein (R) along with senior leaders attend a military parade marking the country's 65th Armed Forces Day at a parade ground in Naypyidaw in March. (Photo
In politics, so the saying goes, there are no permanent enemies and no permanent friends—only permanent interests. In Myanmar we have seen an unusual political alliance between State Counselor Daw Aun