Larry Jagan

SPECULATION is continuing to mount, amid stony silence from the leaders of the future government, the National League for

What is needed is for Suu Kyi to sit down with the top three men in the government and map out the transfer of power.

Fear of angering the Buddhist nationalists – especially the Committee for the Protection of Nationality and Religion, which is better known by its Myanmar-language acronym Ma Ba Tha, which includes the outspoken monk Ashin Wirathu – convinced the party's leaders to exclude Muslims from their constituency list.

MYANMAR'S president Thein Sein has launched a palace coup within the ruling party to shore up his support and end the presidential hopes of his rival, the speaker of the lower house Thura Shwe Mann. It also comes immediately after a massive shakeup in the army

One of Soe Win's key priorities will be to make sure the army maintains its prominent role in the country's politics, including protecting the 25 percent quota of seats the army automatically has in the parliament, under the 2008 constitution.