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• Thura U Shwe Mann gets party nod to lead USDP into elections
• UEC launches website
• Speaker, parties negotiate on constitutional change
• Myanmar not a source of ‘boat people’, insists delegation head
• First private TB treatment centre opens
• Rakhine officials collect nearly 400,000 ‘white cards’ by deadline
• Bus crash on deathly highway kills five, injures fifteen
• Media conflicts due to ‘emotion’ minister says
• Final census results set for 2016 release

Thura U Shwe Mann gets party nod to lead USDP into elections Posted: 31 May 2015 08:38 PM PDT Parliament Speaker Thura U Shwe Mann will remain chair of the Union Solidarity and Development Party and lead its election campaign, the party announced yesterday after a three-day leadership meeting.

UEC launches website Posted: 31 May 2015 08:35 PM PDT Technicians and electoral officials are scrambling to complete a website that will eventually allow voters to check that their names and other details are correct.

Speaker, parties negotiate on constitutional change Posted: 31 May 2015 08:34 PM PDT Despite criticism of a new law authorising a referendum on constitutional change as "useless", parliamentary Speaker Thura U Shwe Mann has met political leaders to negotiate the submission of a constitutional amendment bill to parliament.

Myanmar not a source of ‘boat people’, insists delegation head Posted: 31 May 2015 08:32 PM PDT Despite agreeing to a plan to address "root causes" compelling thousands of refugee seekers and migrants to cram into smugglers' boats each year, Myanmar continues to reject suggestions it is a source of the "boat people" that have sparked a regional crisis.

First private TB treatment centre opens Posted: 31 May 2015 08:31 PM PDT Toe Linn Aung in Yangon's North Dagon township has become the first private hospital to open a centre dedicated to treating tuberculosis.

Rakhine officials collect nearly 400,000 ‘white cards’ by deadline Posted: 31 May 2015 08:27 PM PDT Rakhine State immigration officers say they have collected nearly 400,000 temporary identity papers by the May 31 deadline set by the government as part of its citizenship application program.

Bus crash on deathly highway kills five, injures fifteen Posted: 31 May 2015 08:22 PM PDT Five passengers were killed and another fifteen hospitalised as a bus slammed into a traffic circle and flipped over early morning yesterday on the notoriously deadly Yangon-to-Mandalay expressway.

Media conflicts due to ‘emotion’ minister says Posted: 31 May 2015 08:21 PM PDT Minister for Information U Ye Htut has accused reporters of a lack of professionalism, saying they too often let their emotions colour their reporting.

Final census results set for 2016 release Posted: 31 May 2015 08:19 PM PDT Ethnic and religious data held back, as debate continues over those unable to take part in census.

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