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Torn Between Two Capitals

By HTET AUNG Wednesday, September 22, 2010
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Naypyidaw, a remote town located halfway between Burma's two main cities, Rangoon and Mandalay, has been the country's administrative capital since junta chief Snr-Gen Than Shwe deemed it so on Nov. 6, 2005.
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Ethnic Issues and the New Parliament

By ZIN LINN Monday, September 06, 2010
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Burma's new 2008 Constitution offers many problems for political parties, ethnic cease-fire groups and exiled dissident factions seeking some common ground to the disagreements between ethnic groups and the military dictatorship.

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Junta's Strategic Election Moves

By HTET AUNG Monday, August 30, 2010
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The candidate nomination period for Burma's 2010 election closed on Monday, and the deadline for candidates who want to withdraw their application is Sept. 3.

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Constitutional Truth or Trick?

By HTET AUNG Tuesday, August 17, 2010
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Burma's new constitution has again become a center of debate among foreign experts, diplomats and social workers working with their different missions, searching for a solution to the current political conflict between democracy and military authoritarianism.
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Registered Parties Should Carefully Assess Election Strategy

By AUNG MOE ZAW Monday, August 16, 2010
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Burmese parties planning to participate in the election with the intention of focusing on the people's betterment, believing they could make changes from within, should not gamble on the fate of the nation.

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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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