Senior General Min Aung Hlaing makes a speech at a parade ground to mark Myanmar's Independence Day in Nay Pyi Taw on January 4. (AFP)

Military junta extends state of emergency, signaling poll delay

Myanmar's junta extended the country’s state of emergency by six months on Monday, signaling a delay to elections they had pledged to hold as the military battles anti-coup fighters across the country.

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