On Sunday the first of April 2012 Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy will for the first time have a chance to challenge the current military-backed civilian government head-on. But even if she should win every seat it will only be a first small step in solving Burma’s problems says Jack Aung and Sai Aung Thein, Burmese journalism students and editors of Hong Kong Baptist University’s student newspaper.
Sai and Jack are both from minority ethnic groups (Shan and Mon respectively) and emphasise the real issue is not democracy, but …

“People’s aspirations has galvanised a yearning for democracy” says CK Lau, lecturer at Hong Kong Baptist University and Vice-Chairman of the Journalism Education Foundation.
Yet the upcoming Hong Kong Chief Executive election seems to be anything but. Three candidates, but the media has already written off the only non-Beijing supporter Albert Ho.
C. Y. Leung and Henry Tang, aka “the pig and the wolf” will be battling for the 1200 votes of the Hong Kong election committee. Leung, the wolf, has been described by top Chinese leaders as “very patriotic”, but the public are more …