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• Outsourcing the presidency: the problems with the proxy
• Daw Suu will be president ‘sooner or later’: NLD
• Questions for rights body as NLD prepares to take office
• Shan rights groups call for mine clearance
• MPs get warning on bad behaviour, test results
• Judge to decide on U Gambira charge next week
• Mandalay martyrs remembered
• Pat Ja San waits on Union govt support
• USDP withdraws prosecution against schoolteacher
• Public controversy as Pali letters omitted from KG curriculum

Outsourcing the presidency: the problems with the proxy Posted: 01 Mar 2016 02:30 PM PST After a thumping win at the November 8 election so thorough it outstripped even her own party's expectations, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi left a large question mark lingering over the office of the presidency. The same cannot be said of who will effectively rule the country.

Daw Suu will be president ‘sooner or later’: NLD Posted: 01 Mar 2016 02:30 PM PST Parliament confirmed yesterday that the presidential nomination deadline will be brought forward one week to March 10, in a move widely seen as a concession from the National League for Democracy that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will not be Myanmar's next president.

Questions for rights body as NLD prepares to take office Posted: 01 Mar 2016 02:30 PM PST In what many have hailed as a new dawn in terms of respect for human rights in Myanmar with the coming to power of a National League for Democracy government, some activists are questioning how much, and how soon, anything is going to change.

Shan rights groups call for mine clearance Posted: 01 Mar 2016 02:30 PM PST Shan State locals are demanding the government clear landmines from conflict areas surrounding villages in the north of the state.

MPs get warning on bad behaviour, test results Posted: 01 Mar 2016 02:30 PM PST Drunk? Lazy? Unruly? Not very good at passing tests? National League for Democracy MPs may rule the roost in the marble halls of parliament, but if any of them step out of line they are apt to face discipline.

Judge to decide on U Gambira charge next week Posted: 01 Mar 2016 02:30 PM PST A Mandalay judge will next week decide whether to formally charge 2007 protest leader U Gambira under the immigration act, it was revealed at a hearing yesterday. The former political prisoner will face anywhere from six months to five years in prison if found guilty of entering the country illegally, as immigration officials allege.

Mandalay martyrs remembered Posted: 01 Mar 2016 02:30 PM PST The death of 17 protesters against British colonial rule was marked in a solemn ceremony in Mandalay yesterday. Participants gathered to honour those who had fallen in a crucial uprising against foreign occupation.

Pat Ja San waits on Union govt support Posted: 01 Mar 2016 02:30 PM PST Dismissing local law enforcement as weak, the vigilante group Pat Ja San has now asked the Union government and the Tatmadaw to support its efforts to destroy thousands of acres of poppy fields in Kachin State.

USDP withdraws prosecution against schoolteacher Posted: 01 Mar 2016 02:30 PM PST The Union Solidarity and Development Party has dropped its complaint against a polling station official for allegedly encouraging people to vote for the then-opposition National League for Democracy.

Public controversy as Pali letters omitted from KG curriculum Posted: 01 Mar 2016 02:30 PM PST An overhaul of the nearly 40-year-old kindergarten curriculum has generated controversy, with the Ministry of Education accepting advice from education experts that young children should initially learn only 25 of the 33 consonants in the Myanmar alphabet.

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