CALD NEWS YOU CAN USE Week of 21 of September – 2 of October 2015

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7 Things to Know about Burma’s Upcoming Elections

Early next month Burma goes to the polls for what are shaping up to be its freest general elections for 25 years. The National League for Democracy (NLD) party of former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi, is poised to win a sizeable chunk of the 664 legislative seats. That would be a watershed moment for the former pariah nation, which has opened up politically and economically since democratic reforms were introduced three years ago.

Read more:

http://time.com/4055196/burma-myanmar-elections/

Interior Minister Sar Kheng and opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Thursday led their parties in talks at the National Assembly over proposed changes to the parliament’s internal rules, with both sides declining to reveal the details of what was discussed

Read more:
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cpp-and-cnrp-officials-meet-over-assembly-rules-96183/

The ruling Liberal Party on Wednesday, September 30, officially nominated Manuel Roxas II as its standard-bearer for the 2016 national elections.

Read more:
http://www.rappler.com/nation/politics/elections/
2016/107580-lp-nomination-roxas-senatorial-candidates

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP Taiwan) celebrated its 29th anniversary on September 22nd with a diplomatic reception at the Far Eastern Hotel in Taipei.

Read more:
http://english.dpp.org.tw/dpp-29th-anniversary/

If the 2015 general elections are not free and fair, the opposition National League for Democracy will not keep silent, said NLD chairperson Aung San Suu Kyi.

Read more:
http://www.elevenmyanmar.com/politics/suu-kyi-pledges-crack-down-advance-voter-fraud

Cambodian authorities are refusing to allow doctors from the human rights group Licadho to visit a jailed opposition lawmaker held at Prey Sar prison in the capital Phnom Penh, claiming the facility already provides adequate care, sources said.

Read more:
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/doctors-09302015160023.html

Announcements:

On 6-10 November 2015, the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD) will be having its Mongolia Conference on Sustainable Development Goals and Executive Committee Meeting with the theme, “Realising the Sustainable Development Goals; Shaping the Post-2015 Development Agenda – The Role of Liberals”.   A CALD Women’s Caucus Seminar with the theme, “Women Leadership 20 Years After the Beijing Platform of Action”, will also take place.

BURMA
Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi Campaigns in Home Constituency as Poll Battle Heats Up
September 22 2015
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/myanmars-aung-san-suu-kyi-campaigns-in-home-constituency-as-poll-battle-heats-up/articleshow/49041781.cms

CAMBODIA
Groups Concerned Over Increasing Violations of Constitution
September 30 2015
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/groups-concerned-over-increasingly-violations-of-constitution/2982483.html

MALAYSIA
Don’t Let Rallies turn Malaysia into Syria or Iraq, Says Ex-Thai Foreign Minister
September 21 2015
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/dont-let-rallies-turn-malaysia-into-syria-or-iraq-says-ex-thai-foreign-mini

PHILIPPINES
Noy Tells LP: Make Mar Win
October 2 2015
http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2015/10/01/1505816/noy-tells-lp-make-mar-win  

 

New DILG Chief takes oath before PNoy
September 30 2015
http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2015/09/29/1505282/new-dilg-chief-takes-oath-pnoy

Mar-Leni Tandem Almost Sealed
September 22 2015
http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2015/09/21/1502216/mar-leni-tandem-almost-sealed

TAIWAN
DPP Publicizes Finances, Tsai Promises Transparency
September 21 2015
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2015/09/18/2003627997

THAILAND
Two Democrats Nominated for New Reform Committee
September 22 2015
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/Two-Democrats-nominated-for-new-reform-committee-30269275.html

 

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