Myanmar May Delay Next Month's Election

Myanmar’s election oversight body on Tuesday pressed the nation’s major political parties to agree to postpone national polls scheduled for Nov. 8, citing recent natural disasters. The National League of Democracy of Aung San Suu Kyi was the only party present which objected during an emergency meeting of the Union Election Commission held in the capital Naypyidaw, according to party officials. "I responded to the UEC that the 2008 constitutional referendum was even...

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