Myanmar's military is stepping up efforts to retake resistance-controlled areas, ahead of elections. Photo: AP PHOTO

Myanmar's military has taken back control of a major district capital in Shan State more than a year after losing it to an armed ethnic minority rebel group, state media reports.

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The recapture of Kyaukme, about 115 kilometres northeast of Mandalay, the country's second-largest city, is the latest setback suffered by the ethnic militias fighting the army.

Its fall could not be independently confirmed because the military does not allow journalists free access to the a

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