Yangon (AFP) - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi called on the international community on Tuesday to help ensure November polls bring "genuine political and governmental change" as campaigning officially kicked-off in the former junta-run country.
Some 30 million people will have the chance to vote -- many for the first time in their lives -- in the elections, the only nationwide polls contested by Suu Kyi's party in a quarter of a century as the nation emerges from decades of stifling military rule.
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