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Posts Tagged ‘2010 Elections’ (301 found)

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (024-2010)

In this week’s report you will find:

* According to a village peace and development council official, even though authorities have been providing national IDs for residents in Gwa Township, Arakan State, there are many local people who cannot afford the cost and the time to wait. Gwa Immigration Department, in two groups, has been providing national IDs for any resident who are over 18 years of age with 1000 kyat service fee for each person.

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္ –

• ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္၊ ဂြျမိဳ႕နယ္၌ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္ မဲေပးႏုိင္ရန္အတြက္ အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက ႏုိင္ငံသားစိစ္ေရးကဒ္ျပား ျပဳလုပ္ေပးေနေသာ္လည္း စရိတ္မတတ္ႏုိင္သူ ေဒသခံအမ်ားအျပား ရွိေနေၾကာင္း ေက်းရြာ ရယက လူၾကီးတစ္ဦးကေျပာသည္။

July 11, 2010  •  By Network for Democracy and Development  •  Tags: , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Burma’s Democracy Leaders Hold Parliamentary Hearings in Kuala Lumpur; Malaysian MPs Support Call for National Reconciliation

Representatives of the Ten Alliances of Burma’s democracy and ethnic rights movement held hearings in both the Lower and Upper houses of Parliament in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 7 and 8 July, respectively. Based on the undemocratic flaws in the 2008 Constitution and the military regime’s unjust election laws, the delegation called for the government of Malaysia to denounce this year’s elections unless the military regime changes course[…]

July 8, 2010  •  By Ten Alliances  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (023-2010)

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္ –

* အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအင္အားစု NDF မွေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ဝင္ေရာက္ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ရာတြင္ အသုံးျပဳရန္အတြက္ တင္ျပထားေသာ ပါတီတံဆိပ္သည္ ခေမာက္ပုံပါေနသျဖင္႔ အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဴပ္ NLD ကတရားဝင္ကန္႔ကြက္ သြားမည္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဴပ္ ဒု- ဥကၠဌ ဦးတင္ဦးက ေျပာသည္။
* နအဖစစ္အစိုးရ ျပန္ၾကားေရးဝန္ၾကီးဌာန လက္ေအာက္ခံ စာေပစိစစ္ေရးႏွင္႔ မွတ္ပုံတင္ဌာနက ျပည္တြင္းထုတ္ဂ်ာနယ္မ်ားတြင္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးပါတီမ်ား၏ လႈပ္ရွားမႈသတင္း၊ အင္တာဗ်ဴးမ်ားကို စိစစ္ျဖတ္ေတာက္မႈမ်ား ပိုမိုဆိုးရြာလာေနသည္႔အေပၚ မတူကြဲျပားျခင္းႏွင္႔ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးပါတီက အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားမွ ေလွ်ာ႔ေပါ့ေပးရန္ေတာင္းဆိုလုိက္သည္[…]

July 4, 2010  •  By Network for Democracy and Development  •  Tags: , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Dissecting the Data: Burma’s Macroeconomy at the Cusp of the 2010 ‘Elections’

Burma’s macroeconomy is unbalanced, unstable and largely without the institutions and attributes necessary to achieve transformational growth. Employing new data and techniques selected to gaze through the characteristic informational fog, this paper aims to examine the fundamentals of Burma’s macroeconomy as it stands at the cusp of the 2010 elections. These elections, already without political credibility, promise little in the way of the reforms Burma needs to achieve economic stability and growth […]

July 1, 2010  •  By Sean Turnell  •  Tags: , ,  •  Read more ➤

Filipino activists urge Aquino to take action on Burma

Activists from the Free Burma Coalition Philippines have called for stronger policies and more concrete action on democratisation in Burma from the new Aquino administration, which was sworn in yesterday […]

July 1, 2010  •  Tags: , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Junta’s Handpicked Election Commission Issues Unjust Directive

On 21 June, the military regime’s handpicked Union Election Commission issued a directive banning marching, holding flags and chanting during political parties’ campaigning rallies. Parties wishing to hold a public event or speech must seek approval from a local sub-commission at least one week in advance […]

June 28, 2010  •  By Burma Partnership  •  Tags: , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (022-2010)

In this week’s political events, you will find:

* A resident from Putao stated that USDP has been providing 5,000 kyat each to every local resident who would vote for USDP in the elections in Putao District, which is the northernmost district of Burma. The USDP launched that particular campaign in some villages in Machyangbaw Township from 10 to 25 May.

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္-

* ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ေျမာက္ပိုင္းအစြန္ရွိ ပူတာအုိခရုိင္တြင္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု ၾက႔ံခုိင္ေရးႏွင့္ ဖြ႔ံၿဖိဳးေရးပါတီ(USDP) မွေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္ ၄င္းတို႔ပါတီအား မဲထည္႔ရန္အတြက္ ေဒသခံျပည္သူမ်ားကို တစ္ဦးလွ်င္ က်ပ္ေငြ ၅၀၀၀ ေပး၍ စည္းရုံးေနသည္ဟု ေဒသခံတစ္ဦးကေျပာသည္[…]

June 28, 2010  •  By Network for Democracy and Development  •  Tags: , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Resounding International Support for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on her 65th Birthday

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the world’s only detained Nobel Peace Laureate, spent her 65th birthday under house arrest in her Rangoon home on Saturday 19 June. Governments, Burmese communities, solidarity groups and individuals around the world held events to commemorate Daw Suu’s birthday, calling for her immediate release […]

June 21, 2010  •  By Burma Partnership  •  Tags: , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Union Election Commission Directive No.2/2010

Enlisting the strength of political parties

Introduction

1. For holding a free and fair multi-party democracy general election in 2010, the Union Election Commission is granting permission to set up political parties and register as political parties in accord with the Political Parties Registration Law […]

June 21, 2010  •  By Union Election Commission  •  Tags: , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (021-2010)

In this week’s political events, you will find

  • According to a resident, U Aung Than Htay, the Village Peace and Development Council (VPDC), and U Kyaw Myint, the Clerk of VPDC, in Kyigyi Village Tract, Ingapu Township, Irrawaddy Division, threatened residents that they would be arrested and questioned if they did not support and vote for Union Solidarity and Development Party in the elections
  • ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္-

    • စစ္အစိုးရမွ ျပဳလုပ္မည္႔ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုၾက႔ံခုိင္ေရးႏွင့္ဖြ႔ံၿဖိဳးေရးပါတီ USDP ကိုမေထာက္ခံပါက ဖမ္းဆီးစစ္ေဆးမႈမ်ားျပဳလုပ္မည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ဧရာဝတီတုိင္း၊ အဂၤပူၿမိဳ႕နယ္ က်ီးၾကီးအုပ္စု ဥကၠဌ ဦးေအာင္သန္းေဌး ႏွင့္ ရယက စာေရး ဦးေက်ာ္ျမင့္တို႔က ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္ေျပာဆိုခဲ႔သည္ဟု ေဒသခံတစ္ဦးက ေျပာသည္။
    • June 20, 2010  •  By Network for Democracy and Development  •  Tags: , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤