Sep 19, 2013 | News / Article
By Eleven Myanmar/Asia News Network MYANMAR – Myanmar will hold a completely free and fair national election in 2015, the election commission chairman told reporters in Yangon on Saturday. Tin Aye, chairman of the Union Election Commission, said a strategic plan...
Sep 19, 2013 | News / Article
Author: Melissa Crouch, NUS Major changes have already been made to the legal system in Myanmar over the last two years. The next 10 years will be crucial to the country’s transition to a democratic legal system. As the reform process progresses, there is an urgent...
Sep 19, 2013 | News / Article
by Agence France-Presse PRAGUE, Czech Republic – The Dalai Lama on Tuesday, September 17, urged Myanmar monks to act according to their Buddhist principles, in a plea to end the deadly violence against the country’s Muslim minority. “Those Burmese monks,...
Sep 19, 2013 | News / Article
By NEHGINPAO KIPGEN Today (September 18) marks the 25th anniversary of the last military takeover in Myanmar in 1988. That was the third major military intervention in the country’s political history since its independence. At that time, the country was still...
Sep 19, 2013 | News / Article
By Robert Muller PRAGUE (Reuters) – Myanmar needs to change its constitution as fast as possible to put the country firmly on the path to democracy, Nobel Peace Prize winner and leader of the country’s democratic opposition Aung San Suu Kyi said on...
