Myanmar junta holds vote, as aid fails to reach cyclone victims
Posted : 10 May 2008 1512 hrs
The referendum being held in all but the most devastated parts of the country is the first balloting to take place in Myanmar since disallowed elections which democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi won in a landslide in 1990. Full Story »
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