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Mon Party Confident of Election Victory

Tuesday, October 19, 2010 LAWI WENG
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The chairman of the newly formed All Mon Regions Democratic Party (AMRDP), Nai Ngwe Thein, has predicted that the ethnic Mon party will win a majority of votes in Mon State in the Nov. 7 general election.
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The General Versus The Teenage Prisoner

Tuesday, October 19, 2010 WAI MOE
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Rangoon Mayor, Ex Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin, 58, a leading member of the junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), is facing a challenge from independent candidate Kaung Myint Htut, 35, who was one of the youngest political prisoners in Burma.
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NLD and Ethnic Leaders Tour Kachin State

Tuesday, October 19, 2010 THE IRRAWADDY
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Several leaders of the National League for Democracy (NLD), Burma's recently dissolved main opposition party, are traveling in Kachin State with a prominent ethnic leader to meet with local party members and lobby for a boycott of next month's election.
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Donor Dispute Shakes Six-party Alliance

Monday, October 18, 2010 THE IRRAWADDY
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A political donation by a businessman associated with the junta  raises questions. The chairman of the party receiving the funds and the chairman of the party that resigned from the alliance talk to The Irrawaddy.
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USDP Campaigner Murdered in Shan State

Wednesday, October 13, 2010 THE IRRAWADDY
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The junta-backed party is concerned about security in Shan State after one of its campaigners is gunned down in Nang Lan Township.
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Quotable

Nyan_win80"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

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