Burma's military regime has not signaled that it wants regional help in holding the country's first election in 20 years, said the secretary-general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asea
Burmese Prime Minister Thein Sein's Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) was approved by the Election Commission to contest in the upcoming general election, the state-run newspaper The New L
 On June 10, a large crowd gathered near Theingyi Market in downtown Rangoon after seeing the politica
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In preparation for the upcoming election, Burmese authorities have tasked 600 schoolteachers in Rangoon Division with the mission of organizing voter lists and inputting the information on computers,
The process will take at least two months. The completed voter lists will be sent to the election commission, the schoolteacher said. According to a report by the Rangoon-based Eleven Media Group, the
Months after applying for party registration, ethnic Kachin political parties say they have still not received permission from Burma's election commission to contest this year's election, leading some
Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) members are offering low-income workers and farmers in Rangoon small “loans,” which are seen as support for government-backed political candidates,
A leading member of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) has told visiting Australian officials that the newly formed party has sufficient finances because it has inherited funds from the
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
The Yangon [Rangoon] City Development Committee (YCDC) in the eastern district of Rangoon has filed a law suit against a new political party that sought donations from people in public markets in Nort
Amid accusations that the USDP has been using state resources, the Burmese junta has moved to declare the party's assets separate from those owned by the USDA. The office of the Burmese military regim
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.  Speaking to The Irrawaddy on Monday, Bawn Thein, an official at UWSA head