Lower house speaker Shwe Man in Myanmar's parliament in Naypyidaw. Photo: AFP Xinhua July 31, 2013 U Swe Mann, speaker of Myanmar's House of Representative (Lower House), took over the alternate seat of Speaker of the two-House Union Parliament from U Khin Aung Myint Wednesday, parliament source said. U Khin Aung Myint's term of two and a half years in the post expired on the day according to the constitution. But he will retain as speaker of the House of Nationalities (Upper House). USwe Mann, who is also chairman of the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), will run for the remaining two and a half years' term for the current five-year tenure of U Thein Sein's government elected through 2010 general election. The handover ceremony was attended by President U Thein Sein and two Vice Presidents Sai Mauk Kham and U Nyan Tun, Commander-in- Chief of the Defense Services Senior-General Min Aung Hlaing and ministers. The curr...