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Urgent: Myanmar's Lower House elects U Htin Kyaw as vice president

Xinhua, March 11, 2016 Adjust font size:

Myanmar's House of Representatives (Lower House) Friday elected U Htin Kyaw of the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) as one of the three vice presidents to be submitted to the two-House Union Parliament for presidential run after qualification scrutiny.

U Htin Kyaw won the vote against Dr. Sai Mauk Kham, nominated by the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), by 274-29. Endit