Election Features

Election Features
27 August 2023
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Election Features
29 January 2023
Myanmar junta pushes forward with illegitimate...
Coming up to the second anniversary of the coup with the junta-imposed state of emergency...
Officials at the office of the Meikhtila Township Election Commission on the evening of the election on Nov. 8. (PHOTO: Myanmar Now/Phyo Thiha Cho)
News
24 November 2015
Why Meikhtila went green - how USDP won in a...
In the sea of the National League for Democracy’s overwhelming victory in Myanmar’s Nov....
Last September, a group of Buddhist monks walked in front of the office of Union Solidarity and Development Party in the town of Pathein in the Ayeyarwady Delta to join a rally which which was held to celebrate the success of ‘race and religion’ laws. (Photo: Swe Win/Myanmar Now)
News
19 November 2015
Myanmar public dismisses Buddhist nationalism...
In both Myanmar and abroad, the National League for Democracy’s landslide election win is...
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Photo: Hong Sar/Mizzima
News
13 November 2015
The Lady Wins: Now the hard part
For Daw Aung San Suu Kyi it has been a long wait. Twenty-five years after the 1990 multi-...
Opinion
12 November 2015
Election brings hope and sadness for Myanmar’s...
As millions turned out to vote with hope in their hearts on Sunday, one of the groups of...
Myanmar military commander-in-chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrive to attend a high-level meeting at the President's resident office in Nay Pyi Taw on  31 October 2014. Photo: MNA
News
12 November 2015
Myanmar’s army chief makes overture to Suu Kyi...
Myanmar's powerful army chief on Wednesday congratulated Aung San Suu Kyi's party for "...
Members of National League for Democracy (NLD) party steer horse-drawn coaches during an election campaign rally in the town of Pyin Oo Lwin, Mandalay region, Myanmar, 24 October 2015. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
News
08 November 2015
In “army town” Pyin Oo Lwin, NLD hopes for victory
Voting was brisk in the hotly-contested constituency of PyinOoLwin in Mandalay Region on...
National League for Democracy party leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi speaks to local and foreign media during a press conference for the upcoming general elections at her residence in Yangon, Myanmar, 5 November 2015. Photo: Hong Sar/Mizzima
News
08 November 2015
Aung San Suu Kyi and the finest hour of the...
Myanmar is a small country in Southeast Asia, isolated from the rest of the world for...
Thein Nyunt campaigning recently in Yangon. (PHOTO:- Myanmar Now/Htet Khaung Lin) 
News
07 November 2015
“I have sensed the danger of an ‘elected...
Thein Nyunt, chairman of the New National Democracy Party, is a well-known MP in the...
A woman on a balcony in an apartment block in Thinganggyun Township, Yangon, with USDP campaign material bearing the president's image, on Nov. 3. (PHOTO: Myanmar Now/Phyo Thiha Cho) 
News
06 November 2015
Ruling USDP commands shy support in Myanmar’s...
Twenty-two-year-old Lu Zaw took a day’s leave from his office job this week to join a...
Dr Aye Maung Photo: Myanmar Now
News
06 November 2015
Arakan National Party chairman confident a strong...
Aye Maung is the chairman of the Arakan National Party (ANP), ...
Arakan National Pary (ANP) campaigning in Pauktaw in Rakhine State on 1 November, 2015. Photo: DMG/Mizzima
News
06 November 2015
With Rohingya disenfranchised, NLD takes on...
Soe Win, a National League for Democracy (NLD) candidate, ...

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