Off the wire
• HSBC indicator for China services activity slows in June  • China treasury bond futures open higher Friday  • China Hushen 300 index futures open higher Friday  • Xinhua China news advisory -- July 3  • Chinese yuan strengthens to 6.116 against USD Friday  • Market exchange rates in China -- July 3  • Urgent: China stocks open sharply lower Friday  • Australian authorities arrest 4 men in connection with global fraud racket  • British royals to make return visit to New Zealand  • Dollar trades in lower 123 yen range in early Tokyo deals  
You are here: 　 Home

Myanmar designates constituencies for 2015 general election

Xinhua, July 3, 2015 Adjust font size:

Myanmar's Union Election Commission (UEC) has designated constituencies for running the upcoming 2015 general election of four levels of parliament representatives preliminarily scheduled for the end of October or the beginning of November.

According to a UEC announcement published on Friday, 330 constituencies are set for election of the House of Representatives (Lower House), 168 constituencies for the House of Nationalities (Upper House), 644 constituencies for Region or State Parliaments and 29 constituencies for Region or State Parliaments for National Races.

The 2015 general election is to produce representatives to the next term of the parliament which will form a government for a new term starting 2016.

The current five-year term of the government which started from March 2011 is to expire in March 2016. Endi