Vote Counting Underway in Myanmar

Vote counting is underway in Myanmar where turnout was more than 80 percent for the nation's first free general election in a quarter of a century. Some 32 million people were registered to vote to select from more than 6,000 candidates for both houses of the national parliament and regional assemblies. The country's most famous voter and candidate, National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi, was surrounded Sunday by hundreds of supporters and journalists at...

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