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By-elections to be held in Burma 1 April.
Text of report in English by Japan's largest news agency Kyodo
Yangon, 31 March: Myanmar [Burma] goes to the polls on Sunday [1 April] for national parliamentary by-elections where the National League for Democracy [NLD] under Aung San Suu Kyi will be testing its political strength for the first time after it won a landslide victory in the 1990 general elections.
The by-elections, with 45 parliament seats at stake, are the first to be held since the reformist government of President Thein Sein took office in March last year.
The NLD boycotted the general elections held in November 2010, the first since the 1990 polls where the party won 80 percent of the …
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