Aung San Suu Kyi faces months of delicate negotiations with Myanmar’s entrenched army after confirmation that her party won a majority of seats in last weekend’s historic elections. On Friday the National League for Democracy (NLD) pushed past the 329-seat mark, giving her decades-old democracy movement with an absolute parliamentary majority and a mandate to rule. The latest results gave the NLD 364 seats in both houses; the ruling Union Solidarity Development party (USDP) had taken just 40. Read more
