News
November 7, 2010
| IMNA
Today is the 1st election held in Burma in 20 years, but polling booths have seen overwhelmingly low turnout from citizens in Burma. Residents...
November 7, 2010
| KIC
Soldiers of the Burmese Army have been deployed on the way to polling stations in Kyar Inn Seik Gyi township. There are two polling stations in the...
November 7, 2010
| Narinjara News
Many Taungup residents, who had participated in demonstrations against the military junta in the past were unable to vote in the election today...
November 7, 2010
| Thea Forbes
Burmese people started voting at 6 a.m. for a new government for the first time in 20 years, amid extensive reports of vote-rigging and coercion by...
November 6, 2010
| Nan Paw Gay
On the eve of Burma’s first election in two decades, Karen villagers are frustrated at the lack of information,...
November 6, 2010
| Kantarawaddy Times
Ethnic groups, which rejected the 2010 election, and some MPs, who coasted to victory in the 1990 election,....
November 6, 2010
| Mizzima
In perhaps one of the final blows to the credibility of Burma’s highly criticised general election, reports have emerged of residents....
November 6, 2010
| Kaladan Press
Burma’s border security force Nasaka arrested seven supporters of the National Democratic Party for Development (NDPD) on November 4,...
November 6, 2010
| Kaladan Press
The Election Commission (EC) in Maungdaw Township began distributing polling materials today ahead of tomorrow’s national election,...
November 6, 2010
| Jaloon Htaw, Jury Chai
Two days before the election, the Military Affairs Security Unit (Sa Ya Pha) directed all townships in Mon state to shut down....
November 6, 2010
| Taw Lawi
Muslims from the townships of Moulemin, Kyaikmaraw (Kyaikmayaw) and Ye in Mon state have expressed a wish to vote for the All Mon...
November 6, 2010
| (Kachin News Group)
A unique ballpoint pen, imported from neighboring China, which can be easily erased, is a best seller in Myitkyina,....
November 6, 2010
| Hseng Khio Fah (S.H.A.N)
Candidates of the Shan Nationalities Democratic Party (SNDP), the fourth biggest political party that will also be contesting in Sagaing division,....
November 6, 2010
| Kachin News Group
The Burmese military junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) has started collecting votes forcibly from local members,....
November 6, 2010
| Khonumthung News
The Chin National Party (CNP) made a fervent appeal to the Township Election Commission on November 3 to stop....