The Burmese embassy in Tokyo took advanced votes from citizens in Japan for the November 7 general election yesterday, amid street protests urging ...
Election 2010
Tokyo embassy joins others in receiving absentee votes
Indonesia criticises junta decision to bar journalists
The Indonesian government has criticised the Burmese regime’s announcement on Monday that foreign reporters and monitors would be barred from covering ....
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 19 October 2010 20:39 )
Voices from the electorate II
The following is the second in a series on opinions collected from a cross-section of Burmese society, inside and outside the country, on the nation’s political climate and ...
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 19 October 2010 11:10 )
Voices from the electorate
The following is a collection of opinions from a cross-section of Burmese society on the country’s present political climate and the upcoming national elections. Mizzima reporters ...
Independents on foot after TV, radio access denied
Independent candidates are being forced to settle for distributing leaflets in their campaigning amid a ban on their television and radio campaign addresses, ...
Young voters set to make ill-informed choices
Minimal canvassing and leafleting by political parties, as well as a lack of media coverage on election issues have made it difficult for young voters to make ...
USDP signboards vandalised with red paint in Pegu town
Signboards belonging to Burma’s main junta-backed political party were vandalised with red paint in Pegu Division on Thursday morning, forcing party members to ...
What is a ‘free and fair’ election?
In one of its opening salvoes against the Burmese junta’s elections this year, the country’s most powerful opposition party, the National League for Democracy, ...
Last Updated ( Friday, 15 October 2010 18:24 )
DPP leaves alliance after NDF takes crony funds
The Democracy and Peace Party held an emergency meeting yesterday and decided to withdraw from an alliance that included the National Democratic Force party ...
Last Updated ( Thursday, 14 October 2010 22:43 )
Ethnic leaders join NLD vote-boycott roadshow
Ethnic leaders from the group made up of ethnic political parties that contested in the 1990 general election, have joined the National League for Democracy’s “no vote” ...
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Since October this year, Burma has been in a state of civil war, with fighting between Burmese military and armed ethnic rebels. The ruling junta started a crackdown on these armed groups.
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