Also this week, state-run cooperatives revived amid shortages, holes in poll plan revealed, emergency extended, general lost in Lashio battle, and admiral pays price for targeting crony assets.

Min Aung Hlaing has again blamed China for his regime’s loss of more territory in the month since ethnic armed groups near the Chinese border resumed their Operation 1027 offensive.

Min Aung Hlaing chose Monday’s meeting of the junta cabinet to announce his plan to revive co-operatives, a failed system dating back to the dictatorship of Ne Win.