Myanmar election: Aung San Suu Kyi wins parliamentary seat for ruling National League for Democracy
In the recently-held general elections, Aung San Suu Kyi, Chairperson of Myanmar`s ruling National League for Democracy (NLD), has won a seat in the House of Representatives (Lower House). Suu Kyi competed in Yangon`s Kawmhu constituency against rival candidates from the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), the Union Betterment Party, United Nationalities League for Democracy, Phalon-Sawaw Democratic Party, and one independent runner, according to Xinhua news agency. Suu Kyi, the 75-year-old Nobel laureate, had earlier contested a seat in the Lower House in Kawmhu township in…