Politics

In a 25-minute address after the fall of the North Eastern Command, he pointed the finger at the NLD, ethnic armed groups and, implicitly, China, for the country’s woes.

Elections will be held first in areas where it is safe to do so while his regime tries to bring “stability and security” to conflict zones, he said. 

Coup-maker Min Aung Hlaing says he needs another six months to impose stability and security, and compile accurate voter lists, so the election he promised can be held.

They discussed border stability and fighting the drug and arms trades, as well as online scam operations, junta media reported.

Regime boss has assumed duties of acting president that are required to rubberstamp another extension of emergency rule. 

Acting President Myint Swe is on "sick leave” and has transferred his duties to Min Aung Hlaing, the junta said.

The ceasefire extension came after "pressure" from China, a leader of one of the groups said on Saturday.

Over 1,500 members of the National League for Democracy have been jailed since the coup and more than 100 of them have been killed, the party said in a statement.

The junta said Myint Swe has peripheral neuropathy. The announcement comes ahead of the junta’s expected extension of emergency rule, in which he has a role to play.

Donald Trump was hit in the ear in an assassination attempt by a gunman at a campaign rally Saturday, ahead of the polarising US presidential election.