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NEWS
Main Ethnic Parties Plan to Sit in New Parliament
USDP Wins 76.5 Percent of Vote
Ministers Seek Cooperation with Karen Party
DPP Calls for Dissolution of USDP
NDF Urges Investigation of Advance Vote
Recounts Favor USDP
Winners Become Losers One Day after Election
Suu Kyi Set to Probe Burma Vote Fraud
Junta Switches from Fatigues to Plain Clothes
Unhappy Opposition Candidates Press for New Election
NUP Concedes Defeat
Junta Censors Election Fraud News
SNDP, NDF Won't Recognize Kachin State Results
Ban Calls on Junta to Commit to New Beginning
Favored Shan Candidates Lose in Rigged Vote
Opposition Parties Might Boycott Results
Burma Holds Rare Elections amid Heavy Criticism
NDF Calls for Cancellation of Unfair Advance Votes
Soldiers Forced to Vote for USDP
Advance Vote Push Reflects Junta’s Fears
Ethnic Parties Believe They Can Win
NUP Files Complaint Against USDP Vote Rigging
Complaints Mount on Eve of Election
Ethnic Parties May Boycott Election Results if Fixed
Advance Votes Rigged in Shan State
Burma's Disenfranchised Voters
Junta Set to Win Elections on Sunday
PM's Opponent Injured in Suspicious Incident
USDP Tries to Stir Up Election Interest
China Hopes Burma's Election Runs Smoothly
Gold Sales Rise as Election Nears
Confusion and Fear Mark Burma's Polls
Burma Cancels Voting in More Minority Areas
Security Tightened in Rangoon
Parties Have Problems Recruiting Enough Monitors
USDP Campaigners Warn Journalists
Burma's Internet Service Sealed Off
Regime Allows Outside Visits to Selected Polling Stations
Number of Polling Stations Falls Short in Mon State
Election Offers no Comfort for Burmese Refugees
Philippines: Flawed Burma Vote Will Damage Asean
Voter List Fraud Exposed
Roundtable: Election Will Not Help Ethnic Groups
Voters 'Urged to Cast Advance Ballots'
Poll a Showdown between Dead Strongman and Living One
The Malaise Below the Surface
Two Junta Soldiers Die, 3 Injured in Karen Ambush
Than Shwe Plans No Retirement from Power
Election T-shirt War Hots Up in Burma
Philippines Calls Burma Elections 'Farce'
US Focused on Burmese election: Campbell
Election Boycott Leaflets Distributed
Still Time to Make Election Inclusive, Says Ban
Pro-election Parties Support Second Panglong Conference
Obama Administration Considers Additional Sanctions on Burma
Election Postponement Demanded in Cyclone-hit Region
Journals Distribution on Domestic Airlines Halted
Mon Cease-fire Group Urges Election Boycott
Rohingya Party Prevented from Campaigning
Junta Envoy Says Burma Has No Political Prisoners
UN Envoy Asks Burma for 'Signal' Before Election
Burmese Election to Prolong Dictatorship
Burmese Embassies Restrict Advanced Voting
Post-election Chief Ministers Already Selected, Sources Say
USDP Election Slogan 'People First' Sparks Anger
Media Ban Will Spark Vote-rigging, Say Journalists
Anti-Election Video Popular in Shan State
Election to Offer Little Change: UN Rapporteur
Election Media Ban 'Unfortunate': US
Government Bars Foreign Media and Observers From Poll
Mon Party Confident of Election Victory
The General Versus The Teenage Prisoner
NLD and Ethnic Leaders Tour Kachin State
USDP Campaigner Murdered in Shan State
USDP To Secure Advance Votes
USDP Vote Buying Begins
As Vote Nears, Moods Range from Disdain to Determination
USDP Campaign Posters Seen Throughout Burma
Suu Kyi Says She Won't Vote in Elections
Controversial Funding Shakes Pro-Democracy Alliance
Rangoon Mayor's Support for Mosque Overruled
Illegal USDP Campaign Tactics
USDP Blatantly Flouts Election Law
Former UN Rights Officials Call for Burma Inquiry
EU-Asia Summit Urges Release of Burma Prisoners
Election Uncertainty Brings Trade Downturn
Six Parties Form Pro-democracy Alliance
How Will Post-election Burma Look?
Journal Suspended For Cartoon
Rangoon Mayor Says USDP Using State Funds
Censors Bar Reporting of Suu Kyi's Voting Right
India Says Burma Election Offers Hope
Junta-backed USDP Campaigning through Nargis Projects
Ethnic Campaign Ads Censored
At UN, Burmese FM Defends 'Inclusive' Election
Mon Party Told to Campaign at Home
UN 'Group of Friends': Free Suu Kyi, Political Prisoners
Ban Convenes 'Friends of Burma' Meeting
Burmese Election Campaigns Officially Begin
Suu Kyi's Right to Vote a 'Trick': Aide
Ban Seeks Asean Support on Burma
Obama Urges Burma to Embark on Process of Reconciliation
Suu Kyi Allowed To Vote
NUP Readies for Battle with USDP
Obama to Raise Burma Issues with Asean Leaders
Burma's EC Rejects Democratic Party Campaign Ad
KIO Wants Hong Kong Status
New Coalition for Election Formed in Rangoon
Generals Distribute Phones for Election Support
USDP Distributes 100,000 Newsletters
Activists Cry Foul over NGO's Berlin Talk
NLD Continues Boycott Activities Despite Threats
Suu Kyi Barred from Voting
Suu Kyi's Party Warned over Election Criticism
Questioning the EC Definition of 'Free and Fair'
Only a Handful of Women to Run in Election
Parties Say Polling Station Increase Makes Fraud More Likely
EC Rejects Individual Kachin Candidates
More Ex-Generals to Run for USDP
Ban Concerned about NLD Dissolution
NLD Under Watch
NLD Challenges Disbandment
Restrictions Placed on Election Campaign Broadcasts
Election Commission Disbands NLD
USDP Social Programs Dismissed as Electioneering
Democratic Party to Cooperate with Individual Candidates
Uncertainty Continues after Candidate Registrations
Businessmen Join USDP Candidate List
Candidate List Paints Picture of Election Results
Rural Folks Disinterested in Election
USDP Loses in Election Survey
Only State Proxy Parties to Compete in Naypidaw
Vote USDP Orders PM
Ethnic Political Parties Fielding Candidates
Asean Should Review Burma's Election: ANFREL
NUP to Offer Election Challenge to USDP
Journalists Pressed into Election
USDP Steps Up Campaigns Using State Funds
Asean Secretary-General Hopes for Free Speech in Election
Pro-democracy Parties to Avoid Clash
Many Voters Left with No Option but Boycott
More Senior Officers Reportedly Resign to Join USDP
DKBA Leaders Likely to Contest Election
Election Results will be Predictable
Opposition Says Gov't Party to Win
USDP Opens Headquarters and Offices Nationwide
NDF Leaders Told to Appeal Second Time
Chin Party Struggling to Pay Candidates' Fees
NLD Election Boycott Official
USDP to Open Offices Nationwide
Campaign Restrictions Published Again
Election Doubtful in Areas Controlled by Ceasefire Groups
Election Boycott Campaign Hots Up
Imprisoned Student Leader Denounces Election
Majority of Public will not Vote: Survey
Junta Censors Complaints on Election Date
Opposition Parties Spread Election Forces Thinly
Election Commission Keeps Kachin Parties Waiting
Burma Elections to Be Held Nov. 7
Burma Designates Constituencies for “Parliament”
Democratic Party Complains of Intimidation
Join the USDP Party, Get a Low-interest Loan
UDP Chairman Resigns, Citing Unfair Election
Burma Warns 'Subversives' ahead of Elections
Election to be in December?
UWSA to Ban Election Campaigns in its Area
NDF Leaders Told to Appeal Past Treason Charges
USDP Constitution Maintains Junta's Policies
USDP Assigns Constituencies to Ministers
Leaked Document Reveals USDP Tactics
Election 'Absolutely Unlikely' to be Fair: Suu Kyi
First Party Newsletter Makes Its Debut
White Tiger Party Popular in Northern Shan State
Pro-election Think Tank Feels the Pressure
Journal Closed Following Article on Constitution
More Fall Out from USDA Property Transfer to USDP
Pro-Junta Kachin Party Registers for Election
USDA 'Abolished': Official
Third Attempt to Register KSPP Launched
Burma's Polls May be Pushed to December
Than Shwe's Post-election Plans
Political Parties Struggle On
NLD Renegades Register for Elections
Conscription in Burma Following Election?
Regime Separates Assets of USDA and USDP
Authorities File Suit against New Political Party
NLD Delivers Complaint Letter About NDF Use of Kha Mauk
Censorship Causes Party Not to Compete
We Have Enough Money, USDP Tells Australians
USDA Members Favored for Election Sub-commissions
USDP Offers Loans to Victims of Market Fire
NDF’s Seal in Controversy
New Ethnic Party Leaders a Varied Lot
USDA Hands Out 'Loans' to Poor
EC Favoring Pro-junta Ethnic Parties
Junta Interrogates Political Prisoners on Election
Political Parties Want to Educate the Public
Democratic Rights Group Criticizes Burma's Election Directive
Democratic Rights Group Criticizes Burma's Election Directive
Parties Must Have Permit to Gather, Give Speeches
Are Kachin Parties Being Excluded?
Political Parties Left Flagging
Election Commission Begins Poll Preparations
Election Commission Begins Poll Preparations
Breakaway Party Accuses NLD of Interference
Parties Seek Allies to Meet Election Expenses
PM's Party, Gov't 'All Mixed Up'
Junta's Eyes Focused on Election
Regime-friendly Party Actively Campaigns
Political Parties Can't Afford Campaign Material
Land Confiscation Increases with Military Presence
PM's Party Granted Registration
New Political Parties to Start Websites
Burma Snubs Asean Election Offer
USDA Pulling Down Its Signs in Rangoon
Kachin Party Links to KIO Criticized
Wen Jiabao Talks Elections and Ethnic Issues with Than Shwe
Ethnic Leaders Dividing Community: Critics
Parties Must Show Sufficient Numbers or Face Dissolution: EC
Election Witness in Mindanao
Depayin Masterminds Wield Power in USDP
EU Denounces Burma's Election
NDF Responds to Suu Kyi's Criticism
Obama Extends National Emergency Against Burma for One More Year
Suu Kyi Criticizes NDF Faction
Regime Censors Media Reports on Campbell Visit
Regime Censors Media Reports on Campbell Visit
Philippines FM Calls Burma Polls 'a Farce'
NLD Focuses On Electoral Rights
Junta Rejects International Election Observers
Burma's “Umbrella Dialogue”
Prime Minister, Ministers Set to Resign
Campbell Warns Burma over NKorea Arms
US Senate Urges Review of Burma Policy
US Congressional Report Weighs Up Burma Election
Poll: Many Believe USDP Candidates Will Win
NLD Members to Form New Party
Naypyidaw: No More 'Military Government'
Quintana Says Conditions Not Present for Credible Elections
NLD Holds Last Event as Legal Party
Tight Censorship on Reporting USDP
Generals Resigning for Election May Be Positive: US
Than Shwe Warns Against Election Saboteurs
NLD Will Cease to Exist: CEC
Thein Sein to Head Political Party?
NLD Will Leave Its Flag Raised
EC Approves Three More Party Registrations
Regime-backed Parties Flaunt Electoral Law
New South Wales Will Not Acknowledge Burma's Election
Regime-backed Parties Campaign for Muslim Votes
Junta Collects Voter Lists
Final Days at NLD Party Headquarters
Leading Parties Stay Away from Election
Political Parties Appreciate Exiled Media
Gov't Officials Training for Polls
Asean Summit Long On Words, Not Actions on Burma
NLD: 'Flag Will Keep Flying'
Two More Parties Apply for Registration
Suu Kyi 'Happy' with NLD Decision: Lawyers
NLD Mandalay Office Closed
Four More Groups Apply for Party Registration
NLD Apologizes for Failed Struggle
Many Won't Vote Without NLD
Burmese PM May Lead Political Party
PaO Seek Party Registration
'The Regime is a Political Rapist': Win Tin
Uncertain Future for NLD in Wake of Election Decision
National Political Alliance Applies for Registration
Thailand to Press Burma to Open Elections
Mon Decide to Field no Election Candidates
Karen Party Applies for Registration
Indonesia Wants All-inclusive Election in Burma
Burma's Press Censored on NLD Decision
NUP Vows to 'Serve the People'
Indonesian FM Visits Burma
NLD to Survive as 'Political Movement,' Leaders Say
Ethnic Leaders Respond to NLD's Election Decision
UN, US 'Respect' NLD Decision
People Sad to See NLD Go, Uncertain about Future
Rohingya to Form Political Party, Contest Elections
NLD Says 'No' to Election
D-Day for the NLD
Exile Groups Support NLD Rejection of Registration
NLD Will be Gagged: Media Sources
Junta on Collision Course with Asia
Veteran Politicians Denounce Election Laws on Armed Forces Day
To Contest or Not? NLD Faces Tough Elections Test
Than Shwe Sets Ground Rules for Polls
NLD Youths Reject Party Registration
Censorship Board Issues Political Parties Order
Junta 'Frustrating,' Says Ban
UNSC Differences Emerge after Burma Briefing
NLD's Fate Still Uncertain
15 More Parties to Register
Voters Divided on NLD's Fate
New Party to Form in Arakan State
Suu Kyi Against NLD Joining Elections
Supreme Court Rejects NLD Lawsuit
Political Parties Begin to Register in Naypyidaw
US Calls for Election Law Changes in Burma
Kachin Party to Register in April
New Mon Party to Join Election
Indonesia's FM to visit Burma
Burmese Media Blasts Critics
Exiled Groups Seek UN Action on Burma
Delhi Police Arrest Burmese Activists
Opposition: International Community Must Reject Election
Junta Opens Political Party Registration
Newly-registered Parties Face Financing Problems
Technical Regulations Favor Wealthy Candidates
Karen Leaders Forming Political Parties
Divisions over Party Registration Surfacing in NLD
Gov't Ministers to Contest the Election
Election Campaign Begins in Karen State
Philippines: Burma Broke Promise to Democratize
NLD to Decide on its Fate on March 29
Election Campaign To Begin
Asean's Silence on Burmese Election Law
Junta Bans Election News
Seven Parties Ready to Register for Election
Campbell Says Engagement with Burma Failing
About 300 NLD Branch Offices Reopened
Election Commission Members from Various Backgrounds
1990 Election Results Annulled; NLD Offices Reopen
Election Law Meets Widespread Indifference, Opposition
Ethnic Leaders To Boycott Election
USDA Political Party-spinoff Expected Soon
Suu Kyi Unhappy with Election Law
NLD Faces Problems Reopening Offices
The NLD's Dilemma
Will the BGF Deadline Delay the Election?
Regime Announces Election Law
Kachin Political Party Becoming More Active
Opposition Parties Face Election Uncertainty
Jailed 88 Generation Leaders Refuse to Compromise
Several Politicians Express Support for Burma Election
Burma Tells Neighbors Elections Will Be Free
Ethnic Leaders Reject Election
Election to be Held in October?
Ban Notes No Election Date Set by Than Shwe
No Indications of Restoration of Democracy: US
Than Shwe Promises Election This Year
Analysis
USDP and NUP Square Up for 132 Seats
Ethnic Groups Don't Expect Much from the Election
Expecting the Worst, Hoping for Something
Media Controls Tighten Ahead of Burma Election
Election Commission Video Misstates the Law
How to Win an Election Before It's Held
Election Pits Ne Win Loyalists Against Than Shwe’s Regime
True Reconciliation a Post-election Priority
The Fate of the NLD
Is There Really Hope for Ethnic Candidates?
The Political Landscape of the Old Capital
Will Suu Kyi be Freed at Last?
Who Cares if the Election is 'Free and Fair'?
Democratic Space and a Military Apartheid
ASEM Will Call on Junta to Hold Free and Fair Elections
Torn Between Two Capitals
Ethnic Issues and the New Parliament
Junta's Strategic Election Moves
Constitutional Truth or Trick?
Registered Parties Should Carefully Assess Election Strategy
Don't Expect Much from Burma's Election
Dividing Political Parties into Groups
Stifling Democracy in Burma, the Junta way
The Trouble with the EU and EC
Building an Opposition to the Opposition
Who Dares Wins?
Burma’s Road to 3G Democracy
A Fight over a Bamboo Hat
Parties Silent on Burma’s Major Political Issues
The Ghost of Elections Past-III
The EC Eyes a Kachin Angle
Stumbling Toward the Election
The Ghost of Elections Past (Part II)
The Ghost of Elections Past
State Violence is Allowed to Win in Burma
Bye Bye Democracy! Hello Army-State!
Remembering the NLD
We Must Deny the Military Regime in Burma the Legitimacy it Craves
After the NLD Has Gone
Unveiled: the Regime's Shiny New Car
New Political Parties' Biggest Challenge: Money
Parallels Between Sudan and Burma
Than Shwe Signals a 'No' Vote to Election Observers
US Response To Sudan Election Omen for Burma?
Can the NLD be Reincarnated?
New Beginning for the Opposition
A Letter from Colombo
The NLD's Long March
Defiance, Oppression to Come
Did the NLD Make a Blunder?
The Same Old Road to Nowhere
In Opting for Poll Boycott, NLD Goes for Broke
Editorial: End of the Road?
Election Behind Bars: What Hope for Reconciliation?
Than Shwe Tries to End Suu Kyi's Political Role
United Support for Suu Kyi's Stand is Crucial
Divide the Opposition: Junta's Goal
Suu Kyi Gives Than Shwe a Smart Sidekick
NLD Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Orwell’s Ghost Looms Over the Election
Decision Time Approaches for the NLD
Than Shwe Mulls his Future Role
Asean Must Speak with One Voice on Burma's Election
Clinging to ‘Dwifungsi’
The Election Law: Not So Free and Fair
To Be, or Not to Be?
Calls for Dialogue Failing
An Alternative Solution to Amend the Constitution
Similarities and Contrasts Between 1990 and 2010: But Will the Fundamentals Change?
Similarities and Contrasts Between 1990 and 2010: But Will the Fundamentals Change?
A Numbers Game
Burma's Burning Ring of Cease-fires
NLD Needs a New Breed
Burma's Sordid History of Unfair Elections
No Turning Back
Looking for an Election in Burma's Political Fog
Why the 2008 Constitution is the Junta's Holy Grail
More of the Same
Muddy Waters
‘Election Will be Postponed’
Predicting the Unpredictable
When Tigers Eat Grass
Selection Time Precedes Election Time in Burma
Nudging the Junta toward Democracy
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Free and Fair?
CONSTITUTION
USDP Illegal under Constitution
Constitutional Impunity for Generals in Burma
An Alternative Solution to Amend the Constitution
Suu Kyi's Election Year Role Still in Doubt
A Tip for Asean: Ethnic Reality beyond the Election
The USDA Role Under The Constitution
Constitutional Impunity for Generals in Burma
A Year of Promise, or Tempest-tossed Again?
Civil Society's Role Beyond the Election
A State-owned Market Economy
Above the Law
The New Constitution and the Transfer of Power
Electoral System: A Cause for Stability or Instability?
Burma’s New Constitution Privileges Soldiers above Civilians
INTERVIEW
Donor Dispute Shakes Six-party Alliance
The Election Held in Secrecy
“We'll Scrap Our Party if That's What Suu Kyi Wants”
DPP Supports Open Market, Free Trade System
Walking Away from an Unfair Election
Election Chance for Change
For Karen People, but not Karen State
Who Will Represent Shan State if not Us?
'National Reconciliation is Essential'
The Kachin State Progressive Party
People Need a Political Party
We Won't Abandon Our People
'The Political Door is Opening'
'We Believe We Will Win This Election'
NLD Divided on Party Registration
Deeply Disappointed
Tutu Dismisses Election as 'Charade'
Finding the Path to Democracy
The Political Reformer: Thu Wai
NLD Elder Holds Out for Constitutional Review
POLITICAL PARTIES
POLITICAL PARTIES
CARTOON
USDP Launches New Aid Program in Mandalay: "Boats for Votes"
Some get all the benefits, others get all the burdens.
All Change
Ballot box fun and games in Naypyidaw
“On your marks, and keep right”
The Painful Challenge
Out of the mouths of dictators
So what are you waiting for?
This load is lighter, I promise.
Junta sets the stage for democratic elections.
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Than Shwe's long arm of legitimacy
The Regime's Election Watchdog
Than Shwe's surefire hopes for 2010
So, Daw Suu, you said you want to negotiate?
Than Shwe Considers the Logistics of an Election
QUOTABLE
Nyan Win, the foreign minister of Burma
Quotable
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Win Htein, former aide to Aung San Suu Kyi
Lee Hsein Loong, the prime minister of Singapore
Mitch Mcconnell, US Senate Republican Leader
the assistant aecretary of state for East Asia and Pacific Affairs
the assistant aecretary of state for East Asia and Pacific Affairs
the assistant aecretary of state for East Asia and Pacific Affairs
Kasit Piromya, Thailand's foreign minister
Benjamin Zawacki, Amnesty International's researcher on Burma
Win Tin, a member of NLD Central Executive Committee
George Yeo, Foreign Minister of Singapore
Alberto Romulo, foreign minister of the Philippines
Alberto Romulo, foreign minister of the Philippines
Alberto Romulo foreign secretary of the Philippines
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Marty Natalegawa, Foreign Minister of Indonesia
Aung San Suu Kyi, the detained leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD)
Li Baodong, Chinese ambassador to UN
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
George Yeo, Foreign Minister of Singapore
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung
Tomas Ojea Quintana, UN Human Rights Envoy to Burma February 19, 2010
POPULATION DATA
Burma Population Data
A Survey of NLD Officials on the 2010 Election
Constituencies at the National, State and Division Levels
ON THE RECORD
Enlisting the Strength of Political Parties
2008 Constitution
Six Points in Aung San Suu Kyi's Analysis in Rejecting Party Registration
Pyithu Hluttaw Electoral Law (3/2010)
Political Parties Registration Law (2/2010)
Political Parties Registration Law (2/2010)
Technical Regulations for Political Party Registration (Order 1/2010)
Pyithu Hluttaw Electoral Law
Union Election Commission Law
ELECTORAL LAWS
Top UN Briefing on Burma to Focus on Election Laws
A Lack of Independence, Impartiality
Party Registration Regulations Favor Wealthy
Election Law Ensures No Credibility
Burma’s Election: Credibility at Stake
Quotable
"Once her [Aung San Suu Kyi's] sentence expires in November, and that notion is not disputed, it is our understanding that she will have served her sentence."
—Nyan Win, the foreign minister of Burma
Poll
Will you vote or boycott the Nov. 7 election?
Vote
Boycott
Don't Know
CARTOON
Burma Population Data
Elected Seats in Parliaments
Union ElectionCommission Law (Burmese)
Union Election Commission Law (English)
Political Parties Registration Law (Burmese)
Political Parties Registration Law (English)
Pyithu Hluttaw Electoral Law (Burmese)
Pyithu Hluttaw Electoral Law (English)
Amyotha Hluttaw Electoral Law (Burmese)
Amyotha Hluttaw Electoral Law (English)
Regions and States Hluttaw Electoral Law (Burmese)
Regions and States Hluttaw Electoral Law (English)
Directive No.2/2010(English)