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| A Burmese government peace delegation and top Kachin Independence Organization leaders met for two hours on Tuesday, November 29, 2011, in Shweli in China’s Yunnan Province to discuss a cease-fire. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Kachin Independence Organization leaders and a Burmese government peace delegation discussed a cease-fire for two hours on Tuesday, November 29, 2011, in Shweli in China’s Yunnan Province. Photo: Mizzima |
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| People queue around Maha Pathana Cave in Gaba Aye Hill in Rangoon to pay homage to a tooth relic of the Buddha on Sunday, Novembr 27, 2011. The relic, on display until December 7, was sent to Burma from China for public display. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with more than 50 musicians and singers at her home in Rangoon on November 25, 2011. The National League for Democracy (NLD) said the meeting was held to discuss songs for use in NLD canvassing in the coming by-election. Photo: Mizzima |
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| NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi meets with Burmese singers and musicians to talk about the upcoming by-election and songs to use while campaigning. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Aung San Suu Kyi will seek a seat in the Burmese Parliament in the upcoming by-election. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Burmese musicians and singers discuss the upcoming by-election and songs that might be used by NLD candidates while campaigning. Photo: Mizzima |
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| A tooth relic of the Buddha was sent to Rangoon from Naypyitaw on Tuesday for public worship. The religious affairs ministry announced that the relic will be in Rangoon from Tuesday until December 7. Since 1955, the Chinese authorities have sent the relic to Burma four times. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Aung San Suu Kyi speaks at education network anniversary Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and activist Phyo Min Thein cut a ribbon to open a fair at the Judson Church Center in Rangoon to mark first anniversary of the Bayda Institute, a National League for Democracy education network, on Monday, November 21, 2011. Photos: Mizzima |
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| Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi attends a fair at the Judson Church Center in Rangoon to mark the first anniversary of an NLD education network on Monday, November 21, 2011 |
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| Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks at the fair at Judson Church Center in Rangoon to mark first anniversary of the Bayda Institute, an education network on Monday, November 21, 2011. |
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| Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks at the Judson Church Center fair on Monday, November 21, 2011, in Rangoon to mark first anniversary of an NLD education network. |
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| Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks in front of the Judson Church Center in Rangoon on Monday, November 21, 2011. |
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| A vendor displays a clock with a picture of Aung San Suu Kyi at a fair at the Judson Church Center in Rangoon on Monday, November 21, 2011. |
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| A man wearing a T-shirt with Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s picture at a fair at the Judson Church Center in Rangoon on Monday morning, November 21, 2011. |
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| NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi among her supporters and reporters outside the NLD headquarters in Rangoon after the NLD voted to re-register and to re-emerge as a legal political force in Burma. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Reporters gather at the NLD headquarters in Rangoon on Friday, November 18, 2011, for an historic vote by the NLD central committee to register as a political party and contest in the upcoming Burmese by-election, probably in December. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Women celebrate at the NLD headquarters in Rangoon on Friday, November 18, 2011, after an NLD central committee meeting unanimously voted to register as a legal political party and to contest in next election, probably in December. Photo: Mizzima |
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| NLD central executive committee member Win Tin answers questions from reporters on Friday, November 18, 2011, after 106 members of the NLD central committee unanimously voted to register as political party and to contest in next election. Photo: Mizzima |
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| British soldiers who died in Burma in World War II honoured UK minister Andrew Mitchell studies a list of British soldiers who lost their lives in World War II at the war memorial in Htaukkyant Township in Rangoon on Thursday, November 17, 2011. |
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| British soldiers who died in Burma in World War II honoured UK minister Andrew Mitchell, right, and David Daniel, left, a former British soldier in World War II, lays a wreath at a British war memorial in Htaukkyant Township in Rangoon to commemorate British soldiers who lost their lives during World War II. During a three-day visit to Burma, Mitchell, the International Development Secretary of the Department For International Development, met with Burmese government officials in Naypyitaw and National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Rangoon. Photos: Mizzima |
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| British soldiers who died in Burma in World War II honoured UK minister Andrew Mitchell visits the British war memorial in Htaukkyant Township in Rangoon on Thursday, November 17, 2011. The memorial commemorates more than 27,000 British soldiers who lost their lives in Burma in World War II from 1939 to 1945. |
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| British soldiers who died in Burma in World War II honoured UK minister Andrew Mitchell at a press conference at the British war memorial in Htaukkyant Township in Rangoon on Thursday, November 17, 2011. |
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| Aung San Suu Kyi conducts a press conference for local and foreign reporters National League for Democracy (NLD) General-Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi answers questions from local and foreign journalists at a press conference at NLD headquarters in Rangoon on Monday, November 14, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Suu Kyi at a press conference with local and foreign reporters in Rangoon on Monday, November 14, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Aung San Suu Kyi with reporters from the local and foreign press in Rangoon on Monday, November 14, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| The AG Church compound in Myitkyina in Kachin State was destroyed in a bomb blast on Sunday, killing 10 people and seriously injuring 27 people. Photo: Hkrum U |
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| Competitors in the Burmese beauty competition in Mae Sot on the Thai-Burmese. The competition was held by Mae Sot municipality during the traditional Loy Krathong Festival. Law student Min Min Soe, 22, from Myawaddy, won the title. Photo: Mizzima |
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| During the traditional Loy Krathong Festival, Mae Sot, on the Thai-Burmese border, staged a Burmese beauty competition to promote friendship between Thailand and Burma on Thursday, November 10, 2011. Law student Min Min Soe, 22, from Myawaddy, won the Miss Mae Sot – Burma title. Photo: Mizzima |
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| The four-day 'Enterprise India Show' organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry and Indian Embassy in Rangoon at Tatmadaw Hall in Rangoon on Thrusday, November 10, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Burmese Industry Minister Soe Thein, left, and Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry Vice Chairman Zaw Min Win, right, attend the four-day 'Enterprise India Show' organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry and Indian Embassy at Tatmadaw Hall in Rangoon on Thrusday, November 10, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Exhibitors including TATA showed various commercial vehicles such as this modern bus. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Agricultural exhibitors including Farmtrac showed the latest model tractors. Photo: Mizzima |
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| A crowd gathers around a poster display of the latest model commercial vehicles. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Two girls laugh at a cartoon at the Tazaungdine Cartoon Festival held on 13rd Street in Lanmadaw Township on Wednesday, November 9, 2011, to commemorate cartoonist Ba Gyan (1902-1953). The cartoon festival is usually held during the Tazaungdine Light Festival on 13rd Street where Ba Gyan lived. The former junta frequently banned the festival. Photo: Mizzima |
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| The Tazaungdine Cartoon Festival was held on 13rd Street in Lanmadaw Township on Wednesday, November 9, 2011, to commemorate cartoonist Ba Gyan (1902-1953). The former junta frequently banned the Tazaungdine Cartoon Festival. Photo: Mizzima |
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| A man studies a cartoon at the Tazaungdine Cartoon Festival on 13rd Street in Lanmadaw Township where cartoonist Ba Gyan lived (1902-1953). The former junta frequently banned the Tazaungdine Cartoon Festival. Photo: Mizzima |
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| To commemorate the 21st anniversary of NLD member Maung Ko’s death, a ceremony offering food to monks and others was held at Inya Kan Phyar Monastery on University Avenue Road in Rangoon. Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi attended the ceremony. Maung Ko died 17 days after he was arrested by authorities. His family said that he died because he was tortured in the Yaykyiai interrogation center. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Burmese Finance and Revenue Minister Hla Tun at the two-day 'Workshop on the Development of the Financial Sector in Myanmar and its role in supporting inclusive Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction' held at the Chatrium Hotel in Rangoon on Monday, November 7, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Left to right, David Lipman, the European Union ambassador to Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi and Burmese presidential adviser U Myint at the 'Workshop on the Development of the Financial Sector in Myanmar and its role in supporting inclusive Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction' held at the Chatrium Hotel in Rangoon on Monday, November 7, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Aung San Suu Kyi and Burmese presidential adviser U Myint at the 'Workshop on the Development of the Financial Sector in Myanmar and its role in supporting inclusive Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction' held at the Chatrium Hotel in Rangoon on Monday, November 7, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Participants at the 'Workshop on the Development of the Financial Sector in Myanmar and its role in supporting inclusive Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction.' Burmese government officials, EU diplomats and guests pose for a photograph at the Chatrium Hotel in Rangoon on Monday, November 7, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| UN special envoy to Burma, Vijay Nambiar, speaks at a press conference at the end of his third recent visit to Burma, where he met with high-level government officials and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Vijay Nambiar, the special Burma envoy of UN Secretary-General Ban Kyi-moon, holds a press conference at the Rangoon International Airport on Friday evening, November 4, 2011, at the end of his third recent trip to Burma. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Dr. Myint, an economic adviser to President Thein Sein, welcomes opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to the 'The First Myanmar Forum & Conference on Green Economy and Green Growth' at the Banker's Association in Yankin Township in Rangoon on Friday, November 4, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| The audience members at the conference on a green economy and green growth in Rangoon on Friday, November 4, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Participants in the 'The First Myanmar Forum & Conference on Green Economy and Green Growth' at the Banker's Association in Rangoon on Friday, November 4, 2011. Aung San Suu Kyi and Dr. Myint, an economic adviser to President Thein Sein, center. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Vijay Nambiar, the special envoy of UN Secretary-General Ban Kyi-moon, right, and Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi at Suu Kyi’s home on Thursday, November 3, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Aung San Suu Kyi answers reporters' questions after her meeting with Vijay Nambiar, the UN special envoy, in front of her home on Thursday, November 3, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Aung San Suu Kyi in front of her home after her meeting with Vijay Nambiar, the UN special envoy, on Thursday, November 3, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at the Traders Hotel in Rangoon for a personal meeting with former Malaysian Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad to discuss trade and economic issues on Thursday, October 3, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at the Traders Hotel in Rangoon for a personal meeting with former Malaysian Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad to discuss trade and economic issues on Thursday, October 3, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Malaysian former Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, standing fourth from left, watches Malaysian and Burmese officials sign a memorandum of understanding on importing palm oil from Malaysia to Burma at the Burmese-Malaysian Investment Forum at the Traders Hotel in Rangoon on Wednesday, November 2, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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