Who is he? Yee Mon was the National League for Democracy (NLD) candidate for Pobbathiri Township in Myanmar’s capital Naypyidaw contesting a lower house seat in the recent November 8 elections. Yee Mon is also a veteran democracy and environmental…
By Murray Hiebert & Phuong Nguyen Washington woke on November 13 to the anticipated, yet still exhilarating, news that the party of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the National League for Democracy (NLD), had won around 80 percent of…
This week we cover the victory of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party in the Myanmar elections with Phuong Nguyen of the CSIS Chair for Southeast Studies. Then we turn to the upcoming United Nations Paris Climate…
By Aung Din Before the November 8 election in Burma, or Myanmar, I predicted that the National League for Democracy party (NLD), led by Aung San Suu Kyi, would win the largest number of seats, but not enough to form…
In the biggest news of the week, a coalition headed by the Janata Dal (United) and Rashtriya Janata Dal won more than two-thirds of seats in the Bihar Legislative Assembly, handing Prime Minister Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) a major…
By Gregory Poling Editor’s Note: The following post is the fifth in a series by CSIS Sumitro Chair scholars framing the political situation ahead of Myanmar’s general elections in November 2015. Millions of citizens in Myanmar will go to the…
The CSIS Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies is pleased to issue the fifth edition of our new “Update on India’s States” weekly newsletter. This week: Canada’s pension system is building homes in Mumbai; Telangana’s selling land online; the Center…
By Aung Din As I am writing this blog from Yangon, the November 8 election in Myanmar, or Burma, is only a few days away. As a long-time foot-soldier of Myanmar’s democracy movement, I view this historic election with both…
By Khine Thant Editor’s Note: The following post is the fourth in a series by CSIS Sumitro Chair scholars framing the political situation ahead of Myanmar’s general elections in November 2015. The critical role of ethnic political parties as kingmakers…
By Abby Seiff After promising a “culture of dialogue” and political reconciliation, Cambodia’s ruling party has moved from carrots to sticks. On Facebook, an image has been floating around in Cambodian circles over the past few days. It is a…
