Burma’s detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said that under Burmese law it will be illegal for her to vote in upcoming elections, despite the ruling junta granting her participation rights. (more…)

Singapore – Myanmar’s first elections in 20 years are less than a month away, and the country’s main pro-democracy party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), will not participate despite winning a landslide at the annulled 1990 polls.
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Many professional associations have amended their constitutions in the lead up to the November 7 election, allowing members and office bearers to become party members and even candidates. (more…)

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. (more…)

New Delhi – Water released from dams in Mandalay after at least a week of heavy rain has inundated three wards in the divisional capital and forced about 2,500 from their homes, residents and relief workers said yesterday. (more…)

Political lightweights or potential instigators of economic reform? That’s the question many voters and analysts are pondering with one month to go until November 7, when more than 30 prominent business identities will stand for election. (more…)

The Htoo Trading Company, owned by Tay Za, a Burmese businessman with close ties to Burma’s military regime, has bought the Kandawgyi Palace Hotel in Mingalar Taung Nyunt Township in Rangoon for US $29 million, according to sources. (more…)

India and South Africa will take up a two-year membership of the UN Security Council next year but their appointment to the powerful grouping has concerned Burma observers. (more…)

Yangon – A Myanmar delegation led by Minister for Finance and Revenue U Hla Tun attended the annual meetings 2010 of International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in Washington DC in the United States of America from 8 to 10 October. (more…)

Although the general election process in Burma is clearly a sham, it will bring about some form of change to the political structure in the country. (more…)

Rangoon – “Voting in X (number of) days,” reads what sound like a reminder to voters in the front pages of weekly journals here ahead of the Nov. 7 general election in Burma, the first to be held in 20 years. (more…)

Chiang Mai  – “Where have you gone, Panglong Agreement?” The lyrics echo in the minds of Sai Mong and a group of his friends at a construction site in Chiang Mai, Thailand. (more…)