Here is a link to an article from 'the Myanmar times', announcing the election of president Thein Sein. The article describes how Sein won the election by a margin of 200 votes, and the intricacies of Burma's constitution, for example, the article states how the president is not allowed to serve more than two terms in a row, both lasting five years.
I found this article surprisingly unbiased, as it talked not only about the military party, but also about the other democratic parties who were running for seats in the election last November. Also, there is a somewhat skeptical tone to the article when it discusses Burma's newly found 'democracy'. However, despite being relatively unbiased and unlikely to be propaganda from the military, we cannot totally trust the article as a source of information, as it is widely known that media and foreign correspondence in Burma is highly censored.
http://www.mmtimes.com/2011/news/561/news56109.html
I found this article surprisingly unbiased, as it talked not only about the military party, but also about the other democratic parties who were running for seats in the election last November. Also, there is a somewhat skeptical tone to the article when it discusses Burma's newly found 'democracy'. However, despite being relatively unbiased and unlikely to be propaganda from the military, we cannot totally trust the article as a source of information, as it is widely known that media and foreign correspondence in Burma is highly censored.
http://www.mmtimes.com/2011/news/561/news56109.html
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