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Thein Sein appears in public for pre-poll talks with rebels

MYANMAR President HE Thein Sein made his first public appearance yesterday since the start of campaigning for the November 8 general election.

He met leaders of ethnic minority guerilla groups for ceasefire talks in the capital Naypyitaw.

But, in the first general election since the end of military rule, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people have been excluded from the poll, their voting rights taken away.

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