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• More than 100 scrubbed from final candidate list
• Tangled interests and lack of voter awareness confront Daw Suu Kyi
• USDP campaigns in strongholds, promises development
• Rights commission urges action against police
• Information war plagues flood victims
• Floods wreak havoc with Rakhine
• Nationwide ceasefire in doubt as KIO holds out
• Travel agent blacklisted, barred from trips abroad
• Koh Tao DNA evidence doesn’t match Myanmar defendants

More than 100 scrubbed from final candidate list Posted: 13 Sep 2015 08:11 PM PDT Over 100 election hopefuls – mostly minority candidates – were knocked out of the running in the Union Election Commission's final list, with citizenship status by far the most common stumbling block.

Tangled interests and lack of voter awareness confront Daw Suu Kyi Posted: 13 Sep 2015 08:01 PM PDT As Daw Aung San Suu Kyi stepped off the plane at Loikaw airport to a cheering crowd, her election campaign in politically divided Kayah State appeared to be off to a good start.

USDP campaigns in strongholds, promises development Posted: 13 Sep 2015 07:57 PM PDT Prominent candidates of the ruling USDP campaigned in hoped-for strongholds over the weekend, with parliamentary speaker Thura U Shwe Mann declaring he was politically alive and well despite his purge as party leader during an internal coup last month.

Rights commission urges action against police Posted: 13 Sep 2015 07:55 PM PDT The Myanmar National Human Rights Commission has urged the government to take legal action against police and students for a brutal crackdown on students and activists at an education reform rally in Letpadan.

Information war plagues flood victims Posted: 13 Sep 2015 07:50 PM PDT When she read in the paper how the regional government had taken action to help the residents of her village in Sidoktaya township, Magwe Region, Daw Hla Hla Win could not believe her eyes. Then she started to cry.

Floods wreak havoc with Rakhine Posted: 13 Sep 2015 07:49 PM PDT In the aftermath of the deadly flooding that devastated Rakhine State, one third of paddy acreage in the northern part of the state is littered with fallen trees and branches, dead animals and the detritus of wrecked houses.

Nationwide ceasefire in doubt as KIO holds out Posted: 13 Sep 2015 07:47 PM PDT Fresh doubts have been cast on President U Thein Sein's hopes of finalising a genuinely nationwide ceasefire agreement within weeks after the Kachin Independence Organisation, one of the main armed ethnic groups, insisted that it would only sign the pact if all factions were included.

Travel agent blacklisted, barred from trips abroad Posted: 13 Sep 2015 07:42 PM PDT When he went to the airport on September 5 ahead of a tourism conference in India, travel company director U Aye Kyaw found himself in a strange bind for a travel aficionado – he was unable to leave the country.

Koh Tao DNA evidence doesn’t match Myanmar defendants Posted: 13 Sep 2015 07:41 PM PDT The DNA from the murder weapon used to kill British backpackers on a Thai tourist island last year does not match the two men on trial for the grisly crime.

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