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Suu Kyi’s novice MPs learn ropes in outgoing Myanmar parliament

January 28, 2016 by Thiha

Hundreds of newly-elected Myanmar MPs from Aung San Suu Kyi’s party took lessons in lawmaking from the outgoing army-dominated parliament on Wednesday (Jan 27), days before taking their seats in the most democratic legislature for decades. A landslide victory for Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) in November polls will give the politicians their […]

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From icon to politician – As Myanmar changes, so does Suu Kyi

December 15, 2015 by Thiha

When Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi spoke warmly on a recent radio show about a critical meeting that followed her landslide election victory, she was referring to talks with the very man who had detained her for 15 years. Listeners might have been surprised by the Nobel peace laureate’s gentle tone towards Than Shwe, former […]

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Suu Kyi lays down law on party discipline to new Myanmar MPs, cautions against ‘betraying’

December 1, 2015 by Thiha

Aung San Suu Kyi has warned newly minted MPs she will not tolerate poor discipline or wrongdoing, party members said today (Nov 28), as Myanmar’s democracy champion began marshalling her opposition for government amid sky-high expectations. Ms Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party took nearly 80 per cent of contested seats in the November […]