Detention of Suu Kyi extended

The junta's action, not yet officially announced, leaves Myanmar at odds with the United States and most Western nations, who have isolated the Asian nation since Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party won a general election in 1990 but was barred by the military from taking power.

Suu Kyi, 60, who has spent about 10 of the last 17 years in detention, was most recently taken into custody on May 30, 2003, after her motorcade was attacked by a pro-junta mob as she was making a political tour of northern Myanmar.