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Win Htein asked the court to sentence him immediately at a hearing he attended via videolink on Friday  
The party grandee asked the judge to sentence him immediately, a court official said
Published on Feb 19, 2021
Military MPs are seen outside the parliament on March 17, 2020. (Photo- Min Min/ Myanmar Now)
Voting on Monday and Tuesday followed along predictable lines, with zero constitutional amendment bills passed
Mar 17, 2020
Dr May Win Myint at a meeting with NLD members in Naypyitaw (Photo- Nyan Hlaing Lin/ Myanmar Now)
Announcement signals a change from 2015, when senior party officials chose candidates in an opaque process
Mar 12, 2020
Lawmakers vote on proposals to amend the military-drafted constitution in parliament on March 10, 2020. (Photo- Nyan Hlaing Lin/ Myanmar Now)
Twelve of 14 proposed constitutional amendments did not cross 75% threshold needed to pass; voting on 121 others resumes Wednesday
Mar 11, 2020
Statement said Hawi Tin had been released at a ‘safe location’ but MP and family have not yet spoken publicly
Jan 22, 2020
NLD MP Dr Hla Moe submits a proposal to condemn the AA
Lawmakers will discuss proposal accusing AA of harming national reconciliation and demanding colleague’s release
Nov 14, 2019
The MP was among 10 detained Sunday morning on the Kaladan River. Eight have been released and one is dead.
Nov 5, 2019
Around 100 people staged a protest in Yangon’s Seikkan township on Wednesday (Photo: Mung San Aung / Myanmar Now)
Nay Myo Aung says merging Seikkan with neighbouring townships will hit USDP hardest
Oct 31, 2019
Thousands of civilians hold a rally to support the amendment of 2008 constitution on July 17 (Photo- Sai Zaw/ Myanmar Now)
Raft of proposed changes to charter includes nitpicking about language and attempts to boost civilian powers, but military seems unlikely to allow real change
Jul 24, 2019
NLD candidate U Than Htike Aung. (Photo: Mung San Aung/Myanmar Now)
A Union Election Commission tribunal has ruled to remove a USDP regional lawmaker from his seat after finding him guilty of cheating during his November 2018 by-election campaign.
May 30, 2019
Officials at the office of the Meikhtila Township Election Commission on the evening of the election on Nov. 8. (PHOTO: Phyo Thiha Cho / Myanmar Now)
In the sea of the National League for Democracy’s overwhelming victory in Myanmar’s Nov. 8 elections there was a small island of success for the ruling party. Meikhtila, a city in...
Nov 24, 2015
Members of National League for Democracy (NLD) party steer horse-drawn coaches during an election campaign rally in the town of Pyin Oo Lwin, Mandalay region, Myanmar, 24 October 2015. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
Voting was brisk in the hotly-contested constituency of PyinOoLwin in Mandalay Region on Sunday, where opposition candidates are mounting a strong challenge to ruling party dominance...
Nov 8, 2015
A woman on a balcony in an apartment block in Thinganggyun Township, Yangon, with USDP campaign material bearing the president's image, on Nov. 3. (PHOTO: Phyo Thiha Cho/Myanmar Now)
Twenty-two-year-old Lu Zaw took a day’s leave from his office job this week to join a political rally of the Union Solidarity and Development Party, but found it hard to explain his...
Nov 6, 2015

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