When the rest of the world elected women leaders

Landmark election in Myanmar (November 2015)

By Shashank Bengali

Los Angeles Times cov­er­age of Aung San Suu Kyi’s win in My­an­mar.

“The scope of the party’s vic­tory in Sunday’s elec­tion — the freest in the South­east Asi­an na­tion since the army took power in 1962 — has sur­prised even the NLD’s most op­tim­ist­ic pro­jec­tions.”

Sources: Los Angeles Times, November 14, 2015.