Myanmar will hold its next general elections on November 8, dpa cited an unnamed senior election official as saying. The election, which was to be formally announced later in the day, will pit the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), against the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Aung San Suu Kyi. The country has been reforming and opening up since the USDP won elections in 2010 and the country changed to a nominally civilian government. Suu Kyi won a seat in a later by-election to become the opposition leader in parliament.
