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Challenge to ASEAN: Make sure Myanmar addresses ethnic strife Source: Malacañang Photo Bureau MANILA, Philippines- While historic, the elections in Myanmar on April 1- which saw the participation and victory of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi - is not the sole symbol of Myanmar's transformation. Southeast Asian parliamentarians said the regional leaders should also use their ongoing summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, as a platform to discuss Myanmar's insufficient response to ethnic violence. 

ယမန္ေန႔က က်င္းပခဲ့ေသာ ၾကားျဖတ္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ရလဒ္မ်ားအေပၚ အေျခခံ၍ အေမရိကန္သမၼတ ဘားရက္ အိုဘားမားအေနျဖင့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေပၚ ပိတ္ဆို႔အေရးယူထားခ်က္ အေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားကို ဖယ္ရွားပိုင္ခြင့္ရွိေၾကာင္း အေမရိကန္ ကြန္ဂရက္ အစီရင္ခံစာတေစာင္က ေဖာ္ျပလိုက္သည္။

ၿပည္ေထာင္စု ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေကာ္မရွင္မွ ဧၿပီ ၁ ရက္ ၾကားၿဖတ္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲမ်ား၏ မဲဆႏၵနယ္ ၄၀ ၏ရလဒ္မ်ား ကို ယေန႕ညေန ၆ နာရီတြင္ ထုတ္ၿပန္ေၾကညာသြားပါသည္။ အဆိုပါ ေၾကညာသြားသည့္ မဲဆႏၵနယ္မ်ားအားလံုးတြင္ အမ်ိဳးသား ဒီမုိကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္မွ လႊတ္ေတာ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေလာင္းမ်ားက အနိုင္ရေၾကာင္း ၿပည္ေထာင္စု ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေကာ္မရွင္မွ အတည္ၿပဳသြားပါသည္။

Aung San Suu Kyi claims victory for the NLD outside the party  headquarters in Rangoon on Monday. (PHOTO: Irrawaddy) Burma’s Union Election Commission has announced the results of Sunday’s by-elections for 40 of the 45 contested seats. Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) has been proclaimed the winner in every constituency, including all four seats in the military stronghold of Naypyidaw. The announcement was made on state TV and carried in Burma’s state media, though the pro-government  New Light of Myanmar  only featured the results on page 16 of its Tuesday issue. It listed the official results for 35 seats in the Lower House of Parliament, or  Pyithu Hluttaw , proclaiming the NLD winners in every contested constituency. The NLD also won three seats in the Upper House, or  Amyotha Hluttaw , as well as the two contested state and regional seats. Results for the five remaining seats—all of which are in Sagaing Division—are expected to be announced on T

PRESS RELEASE The Burmese Rohingya Association of North America (BRANA) welcomes the declaration of the victory of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s party in Burma’s parliamentary election. BRANA expresses its enthusiasm and joins hands with all the supporters cheering outside her party headquarters in Yangon.