Election 2015

Election Features
27 August 2023
NUG pledges cooperation to bring justice for crimes against Rohingya, other minorities  
Myanmar expats wait in line to cast their vote outside the Myanmar Embassy building in Singapore, 15 October 2015. Photo: Wallace Woon/EPA
News
17 October 2015
Of millions of Myanmar migrants in Thailand, just...
The details of that morning 25 years ago are hazy but Than Than Aye remembers vividly the...
Myanmar expats wait in line to cast their vote outside the Myanmar Embassy building in Singapore, 15 October 2015. Over 20,000 Myanmar nationals living in Singapore will cast their vote ahead of the country's general elections, which has been announced to take place on 08 November 2015. Photo: Wallace Woon/EPA
News
16 October 2015
Myanmar nationals in Singapore cast advance vote...
Hundreds of Myanmar nationals queued to cast their ballots in Singapore on Thursday in...
A Mosque in Yangon near Sule. Photo: Hong Sar/Mizzima
News
16 October 2015
Will there be any Muslim MPs in Myanmar’s...
On Nov. 8, Myanmar will go to the polls in what has been billed as the first free and...
Hla Toe, vice chairman of Kaman National Progressive Party. (Photo: Myanmar Now) 
News
15 October 2015
‘A new government should be able to end any riot’
(Interview) Hla Toe, vice chairman of the Kaman National Progressive Party, is contesting...
NLD Central Campaign Chairman U Tin Oo speaks during party election campaign in Kyauke, Mandalay region on September 29, 2015. Photo: Bo Bo/Mizzima
News
15 October 2015
NLD promises federal union with equal rights and...
The National League for Democracy (NLD) has pledged to ethnic people that it will work...
U Aung Thein Lin from USDP party greets the supporters during the election campaign in South Okkalapa Township, Yangon on September 19, 2015. Photo: Hong Sar/Mizzima
News
14 October 2015
Myanmar drops proposed election delay
Myanmar election authorities Tuesday confirmed that landmark polls would go ahead on...
Flooded houses in Kawlin Township, Sagaing Region on July 25,2015. Photo: Hong Sar/Mizzima
News
13 October 2015
UEC chairperson U Tin Aye says he wants to...
The Union Election Commission chairperson U Tin Aye said in a meeting between the UEC and...
People vote at a polling station in the Mayangone township of Yangon, Myanmar, 01 April 2012. Photo: Thet Htoo/EPA
News
12 October 2015
Trials of a first-time voter in Myanmar
It was early afternoon, but the small prayer hall was dark, its walls and pillars lined...
Coco Islands Photo: Myanmar Burma.com
News
12 October 2015
Myanmar opposition says it is blocked from...
Opposition candidates for one of Myanmar's smallest constituencies are being blocked from...
News
12 October 2015
EU Election Observation Mission deploys 30 long-...
The European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) to the Republic of the Union of...
A young supporter holds the picture of Aung San, father of Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar's founding father, on Martyrs' Day commemorations in Yangon, July 19, 2015. (PHOTO - Myanmar Now/ Hkun Lat) 
News
10 October 2015
Beyond NLD, Yangon voters stumped on smaller...
It’s the National League for Democracy or nothing, according to a straw poll of voters in...
Myanmar military high ranking officers attend the 67th Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 27 March 2012. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
Business
09 October 2015
Myanmar elections will ‘not loosen military’s...
The outcome of Myanmar’s forthcoming national elections will do nothing to reduce the...

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