Aung San Suu Kyi met Myanmar's army chief for the third time since her pro-democracy party swept elections, officials said Wednesday, heightening speculation that the military may hold sway over the selection of the next president.

Suu Kyi, barred from top office by the junta-era constitution, has exactly one month before her party needs to put forward candidates for a president who will take power in April.

Myanmar's outgoing president has scrapped a planned trip to the U.S. next week in order to oversee the power hand-off to Aung San Suu Kyi's new government, a presidential spokesman told AFP Saturday.

Thein Sein was due to attend a summit for leaders from the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bloc hosted by U.S. president Barack Obama, who has staked large political capital in Myanmar's passage towards greater democracy.

Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi applauded the military-stacked parliament on its final day in office Friday, as one-time enemies welcomed a transition that will loosen the army's 50-year grip on power.

After a de-mob happy last session for sitting MPs, Suu Kyi congratulated her political opponents on "opening the road" for her party, which won a landslide in November elections.

Hundreds of newly-elected Myanmar MPs from Aung San Suu Kyi's party took lessons in lawmaking from the outgoing army-dominated parliament Wednesday, days before taking their seats in the most democratic legislature for decades.

A landslide victory for Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) in November polls will give the politicians their first taste of power when the new parliament convenes on February 1, a historical turning point for a nation long stifled by military rule.

Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar's powerful army chief held fresh talks Monday on the country's dramatic political transition, days before a military-dominated legislature hands over to the most democratic parliament in generations.

The discussions are the latest effort to smooth the transfer of power following a landslide victory for Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy in November elections, which is set to transform the once-cloistered nation after decades under military rule.

Aung San Suu Kyi's victorious opposition party nominated three ethnic minority politicians Wednesday for prominent roles in the country's new parliament, a boost to a demographic who have long complained of exclusion.

Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) swept up nearly 80 percent of the seats in elections last November, beating out many ethnic minority parties who had been expected to do well on their home turf in the country's restive border regions.

Three people were killed and another three were wounded by a mine blast in a conflict-plagued region of eastern Myanmar where martial law had only recently been lifted, state media reported Sunday.

The explosion hit a truck in Chin Swe Haw town, in northern Shan State's Laukkai district, in the early hours of Saturday morning, the Burmese language Myanma Alinn newspaper said.

Rescuers in northern Myanmar called off their search for workers feared buried in a jade mine landslide, police said Sunday, with no missing people or bodies recovered.

A wall of rocks, mud and debris careered down a hillside on Friday afternoon at Hpakant in Kachin state, the war-torn area that is the epicenter of Myanmar's secretive multi-billion-dollar jade industry.

Aung San Suu Kyi took to the streets of Myanmar Sunday to pick up rubbish, a rare public appearance since her election triumph in a move aimed at highlighting her party's commitment to public service.

Suu Kyi has told newly minted MPs from her opposition National League for Democracy party, which took nearly 80 percent of contested seats in the November 8 polls, they are quite literally responsible for keeping their constituencies clean.

Myanmar's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi held talks Wednesday with the military establishment on the handover of power, the first such discussions since her opposition party cleaned up at the polls.

Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party won nearly 80 percent of contested seats in a November 8 election that appears set to end the military's decades-long chokehold on the country.