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27 August 2023
NUG pledges cooperation to bring justice for crimes against Rohingya, other minorities  
Thiri Mingala Hill (Taunggwe) Pagoda in Loikaw, Kayah State. Photo: sarthit medhasith Suksumret/panoramio
News
03 November 2015
Ethnic parties in Christian areas fear they are...
Ethnic parties in Myanmar's four Christian dominated regions are worried that a lack of...
Media monitoring by the EU EOM is conducted in accordance with an established methodology of quantitative and qualitative analysis. Photo: European Union Election Observation Mission 
News
03 November 2015
More than 10,500 observers to monitor election
The Union Election Commission (UEC) has issued accreditation cards to 470 diplomats from...
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (R), chairperson of National League for Democracy (NLD) party, delivers a speech as Tin Oo, patron of NLD, sits during her election campaign rally in Yangon, Myanmar, 1 November 2015. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
News
02 November 2015
Be wary of fraud, Myanmar’s Suu Kyi tells huge...
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi told tens of thousands of supporters Sunday to...
News
02 November 2015
UN chief concerned by continuous exercise of hate...
The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed ...
News
02 November 2015
Huge crowds gather for NLD rally
Tens of thousands of supporters of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi gathered in...
U Naing Ngan Lin, member of Myanmar parliament and candidate of NLD party, at Yangon General Hospital on 29 October 2015. Photo: Thet Ko/Mizzima
News
01 November 2015
NLD candidates attacked by men with machetes
An opposition candidate for the NLD suffered serious injuries after he and three others...
Phyu Phyu Nyunt, NUP candidate for the Yangon Region Parliament. (PHOTO:- Ei Cherry Aung/Myanmar Now) 
Election News
01 November 2015
“Some people are surprised our party has survived”
Phyu Phyu Nyunt is a Yangon Region parliament candidate for the National Unity Party (NUP...
News
30 October 2015
The election observers in Myanmar: An animated...
For the upcoming General Elections, the Union Election Commission has invited...
Myanmar national, who gave his name only as Frankie (R), and fellow Burmese San Mint (2-R) show their passport and ID card as they queue outside the Myanmar Embassy waiting for their turn to vote early in Bangkok, Thailand, 17 October 2015. Photo: Diego Azubel/EPA
News
30 October 2015
Advance voting kicks off in Myanmar
Advance voting kicked-off in Myanmar on Thursday for those unable to cast a ballot in...
NLD Central Executive Committee member U Win Htein. Photo: Mizzima
News
29 October 2015
NLD confident of winning majority of seats in...
The National League for Democracy (NLD) led by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has...
Members of Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) attend their party's election campaign in Yangon on 10 October 2015. Photo: Hong Sar/Mizzima
News
29 October 2015
Myanmar’s army-backed party bullish despite Suu...
With no little swagger, Myanmar's army-backed ruling party has hit the campaign trail...
Special Police training in Maha Aungmye Township, Mandalay on October 20, 2015.  Photo: Bo Bo/Mizzima
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28 October 2015
Myanmar trains controversial ‘election police’ in...
In a makeshift classroom in downtown Yangon, rows of uniformed men listened to lessons on...

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