All the speculation about who will hold Myanmar’s top jobs should come to an end this month. With newly elected legislators taking their Naypyidaw seats, the specifics of further compromises between ...

Last week, Myanmar’s military-controlled Union Election Commission announced the dissolution of 40 political parties, including the resoundingly popular National League for Democracy (NLD), for ...

Necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum (NLD) is a rare skin condition in which lesions normally develop on the lower part of the legs Other body parts can be affected, though. NLD occurs due to collagen ...

Myanmar's ruling National League for Democracy's electoral victory has emboldened its leaders to press on with major changes, including at the very top of the government. There is likely to be a new ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Several of these questions seem to have been answered by Sunday’s election; ...

The generals who orchestrated Burma’s political transition designed a constitution with a singular purpose: preventing the nation’s democratic icon, Aung San Suu Kyi, from ever becoming President. But ...

The NLD’s most important party organ is its 21-member Central Executive Committee (CEC). It is led by Chairperson Aung San Suu Kyi (Myanmar’s State Counsellor), Vice Chairman Win Myint (Myanmar’s ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. In by-elections held in Myanmar over last weekend, Aung San Suu Kyi's ruling ...

Prior to the opening of the National League for Democracy's first national congress in its 25-year history, a rumour was circulating that party leader Aung San Suu Kyi would be ousted by disgruntled ...

Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) on Monday decided “not to participate” in the general election promised by Myanmar's military rulers. The party did not, ...

Why Is Myanmar’s Military Bothering to Hold an Election? The junta is reluctant to launch an all-out escalation because it is weak: afraid of the economic fallout on the one hand and unsure of the ...