• OPINION

  Suu Kyi sets tone for ties with Thailand

  News, Larry Jagan, Published on 23/06/2016

  » Myanmar's State Counsellor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi starts an official trip to Thailand Thursday which underlines the importance of geopolitics and the role of this immediate neighbour in the country's development.

• WORLD

  Suu Kyi, generals form a cosy alliance

  News, Larry Jagan, Published on 16/05/2016

  » Myanmar's new democratic government, led by the charismatic Aung San Suu Kyi, has only been in power for 50 days.

• OPINION

  Suu Kyi and army commander strike deal

  News, Larry Jagan, Published on 27/02/2016

  » Myanmar’s democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will not push to be the new president, but instead will run the government from within the cabinet. The Lady — as she is widely known here — will appoint a proxy president, according to senior sources in the National League for Democracy (NLD). Instead, she will be either the foreign minister or senior minister in the cabinet, after the president is elected by the parliament toward the end of March, said a source in the NLD.

• OPINION

  Euphoria subsides as new govt takes helm

  News, Larry Jagan, Published on 31/03/2016

  » Myanmar's new president Htin Kyaw has been sworn in this week, along with the new cabinet. It is indeed a historic moment, as the country's first democratic government since 1958 takes office tomorrow. But the euphoria that surrounded the National League for Democracy's overwhelming election victory last November is now slowly subsiding, as the enormity of the task facing the new government is rapidly being realised.

• WORLD

  Suu Kyi still grapples with cabinet line-up

  News, Larry Jagan, Published on 21/03/2016

  » In a little over a week Aung San Suu Kyi and her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), will formally take over the reins of government. The Herculean task of preparing to rule the country is well under way. But the role of the military remains strong -- with the future government likely to be a power sharing arrangement.

• OPINION

  Myanmar starts new parliamentary era

  News, Larry Jagan, Published on 01/02/2016

  » Myanmar's new members of parliament are convening in the legislature Monday. The first session since their election in November last year, this marks a significant step in Myanmar's road to full and genuine democracy.

• OPINION

  Suu Kyi's rivals are trying to steal election

  News, Larry Jagan, Published on 02/11/2015

  » As electioneering enters its final days, most people in Myanmar are increasingly worried that these elections will not be free, fair nor credible.

• OPINION

  NLD believes Suu Kyi can be president

  News, Larry Jagan, Published on 23/11/2015

  » Myanmar's opposition leader is planning to be the country's next president after her party overwhelmingly won this month's polls. Although the constitution bars Aung San Suu Kyi from the position -- because she was married to a foreigner and her two children are foreign nationals -- she and her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), are preparing to nominate her when parliament convenes at the end of January.

• OPINION

  Democratic era dawns on the generals

  News, Larry Jagan, Published on 10/11/2015

  » Aung San Suu Kyi and her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), are heading for a historic landslide victory in Sunday's elections. Although the official results are days away -- the charismatic pro-democracy leader seems certain to control the lower house, and may even have an absolute majority in the parliament as a whole.

• OPINION

  NLD to play kingmakers as horse-trading begins

  News, Larry Jagan, Published on 08/11/2015

  » Yangon: When the votes are counted, the serious horse-trading begins.

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