March 31, 2012 Burma News Update

- မတရားလည္း ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ေရွ႕ဆက္မည္ click
- NLD ၾကားျဖတ္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲ (႐ုပ္သံ) click
- NLD မဲဆႏၵပညာေပးပဲြ သြားစဥ္ ဝင္းကုန္းရြာလံုးကၽြတ္နီးပါး မီးေလာင္ click
- ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ လြတ္လပ္မွ်တမႈ ၆၀ ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္း ရွိႏိုင္ click
- ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ လြတ္လပ္မွ်တရမယ္လို႔ ေကာ္မရွင္ဥကၠဌ ေျပာ click

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Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi 'does not hold a monopoly on democracy'

Campaigners from President Thein Sein's party tell Dean Nelson why they think they will defeat Aung San Suu Kyi in Sunday's historic by-elections. 

By Dean Nelson, Rangoon, 8:00PM BST 30 Mar 2012 ...

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Aung San Suu Kyi has finally broken her silence

John Irvine: International Correspondent, March 30, 2012 ...
Aung San Suu Kyi has spent most of the 16 months since her release praising the regime for introducing reforms.

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16 Ways to Fix Burma

MARCH 30, 2012 ...

On the eve of the country's historic elections, 16 experts give us their prescriptions for the future. 

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U.S. stresses importance of successful by-election in Myanmar

(Xinhua) 09:13, March 31, 2012 ...

JAKARTA, March 30 (Xinhua) - The United States on Friday stressed here the importance of successful by-election in Myanmar scheduled on April 1.

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EU says won't be pushed into lifting Myanmar sanctions

Stuart Grudgings, Reuters, 9:32 a.m. EDT, March 30, 2012 ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Fair elections in Myanmar this weekend will be a major step toward the lifting of European Union sanctions but the bloc will not be rushed by big business into lifting the full range of trade restrictions, its trade commissioner said on Friday.

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Burma's Suu Kyi can't win election without youth vote

Nazima Walji, CBC News, Posted: Mar 30, 2012 6:08 PM ET, Last Updated: Mar 30, 2012 7:12 PM ET...Increasing numbers of young people in Burma have come out in support of Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy, which is running in parliamentary elections on April 1. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

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