Myanmar election plea

Reclusive Myanmar ruling General Than Shwe urged the country to make "correct choices" in this year's general election but gave no hint about exactly when the long-awaited polls would take place.

Myanmar's last election, in 1990, ended with a landslide win for Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition National League for Democracy but the junta ignored the result and has since jailed more than 2000 activists and political opponents, many for minor offences.

Suu Kyi herself has been under house arrest or other forms of detention for 14 of the past 20 years.