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
, is strictly censoring political news in weekly journals, causing the Peace and Diversity Party (PDP) to rethink its
Just before Thu Wai, the chairman of Democratic Party (Myanmar), arrived on an organizing trip at Dala Township in Rangoon recently, he found police in civilian clothes waiting for him. 
The candidate list submitted by political parties to contest the upcoming election on Nov. 7 allows Burma’s election observers to predict the dominate political parties and the likely election results
![In this August 22 photo, Thu Wai, chairman of the Democratic Party talks to the media alongside vice-chairpersons Cho Cho Kyaw Nyein (L) and Nay Yi Ba Swe (R) at the opening of the party headquarter
Election regulations permit the contesting parties to send two monitors to each polling station. But some opposition parties and individual candidates say they are having difficulty recruiting enough