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| The entrance of the Sat San Complex in Mingalar Taungnyunt Township, which is near the site of a massive warehouse explosion in Rangoon on Thursday, December 29, 2011. Photos: Mizzima |
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| Members of the Myanmar Red Cross and rescue workers carrying a Buddhist monk who was injured in the explosion at the Mettamon warehouses in the Sat San Complex on Thursday, December 29, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| A rescue worker searches for a missing fireman at the explosion site at 3:45 a.m. on Thursday, December 29, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Rescue workers search through the debris for dead and injured after the explosion at the Mettamon warehouses in the Sat San Complex on Thursday, December 29, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| House debris in Kutohseik Ward following the explosions in an industrial zone in Rangoon on Thursday, December 29, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Rescue workers search through the debris after the explosion at the Mettamon warehouses in Sat San Complex on Thursday, December 29, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Four firemen near a damaged fire engine at the Rangoon explosion site on Thursday, December 29, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| An injured person in Kutohseik Ward following the deadly explosion in a Rangoon industrial district on Thursday, December 29, 2011. Up to 100 tructures in the ward were heavily damaged or destroyed. Photo: Mizzima |
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| A fire scene in Kutohseik Ward early in the morning on Thursday, December 29, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| A fire scene in Kutohseik Ward on Thursday, December 29, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Firemen fight the fire at a warehouse early in the morning on Thursday, December 29, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Rescue workers search for missing people through the debris early on Thursday, December 29, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| A man searches for his missing mother in Kutohseik Ward at 3:30 a.m. on Thursday, December 29, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Rescue workers on Thursday, December 29, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| A man carries his property as the fire burns at 3:50 a.m. on Thursday, December 29, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa speaks at a press conference at the Sedona Hotel in Rangoon on Wednesday, December 28, 29011. He was in Burma to meet with President Thein Sein and other leaders, including opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Marty Natalegawa, the Indonesian foreign minister. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa speaks to the Rangoon media on Wednesday, December 28, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi shakes hands with Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa at her home in Rangoon on Wednesday, December 28, 2011. The foreign minister is one of a series of high-level Asian and Western officials who have meet with Burmese leaders during the past month, in a bid to increase the momentum of democratic reforms. Photo: Mizzima |
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| National League for Democracy General-Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi and Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa following a meeting in her home in Rangoon on Wednesday, December 28, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba and Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met at her residence in Rangoon on Monday, December 26, 2011. Earlier Monday, Gemba met separately with President Thein Sein and Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin in Naypyitaw. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba talks to the media after meeting with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi at her home in Rangoon on Monday, December 26, 2011. Gemba is in Burma to consider resuming economic development funding to Burma, in light of recent democratic reforms. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Aung San Suu Kyi meeting with Burmese Parliament Speaker Shwe Mann in Naypyitaw on Saturday, December 23, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, center, meeting with members of the Burmese Election Commission in Naypyitaw on Friday, December 23, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| The government’s Union-level peacemaking delegation led by Aung Min and the New Mon State Party delegation led by Nai Hong Sar during a negotiating session in Sangkhlaburi District in Kanchanapuri Province on Thursday, December 22, 2011. The NMSP delegation is wearing red and white shirts. Photo: Mizzima |
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| After the peacemaking meeting, Aung Min said that meetings between ethnic armed groups and the government are creating trust. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Aung Min said he was 100 per cent satisfied with the preliminary negotiating meeting. In January, the government and the NMSP will continue the peace talks. Photo: Mizzima |
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| A crowd gathers at the scene of a bomb blast in Rangoon. The bomb damaged the roof area of a public toilet near the Hledan junction. One woman died and another was injured on Wednesday, December 21, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| A bomb blast in a public toilet in Rangoon blew away a portion of the paneling under the roof, killing one woman and injuring another on Wednesday, December 21, 2011. The blast occurred near Rangoon University. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Police officers in Rangoon investigate after a bomb blast killed a 20-year-old woman and injured another woman at a public toilet near Hledan junction on Wednesday, December 21, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Yingluck at Shwedagon Pagoda Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra washes a Buddha image at Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon on Tuesday evening, December 20, 2011. Earlier in the day, she became the first prime minister to meet with Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi since Suu Kyi was released from house arrest. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra walks through the crowd at Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon, on Tuesday, December 20, 2011. Earlier, she met Aung San Suu Kyi for about 30 minutes at the Thai ambassador's residence. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Yingluck Shinawatra at Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon. She visited Burma to meet with other leaders at the 4th General Mekong Sub-Region Summit, where they discussed regional transportation corridors. Photo: Mizzima |
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| MP Thein Nyunt, the chairman of the New National League for Democracy (NNLD), at the opening ceremony for the party office at Thingangyun Township in Rangoon on Sunday, December 18, 2011. Thein Nyunt told Mizzima last week that rejoining the National League for Democracy party is not possible at this time because of policy differences. Photo: Mizzima |
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People view a photo exhibition of the area around the Dawei deep-sea port project, at a Rangoon press conference organized by the Dawei Development Group on Friday, December 16, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Monks and others read a notification urging Abbot Ashin Pyinna Thiha of the Sardu Pariyatti Monastery Complex in Kyimyindaing Township in Rangoon to leave the monastery as punishment for a speech he delivered at the National League for Democracy (NLD) office in Mandalay on 'Democracy Day'. The notification, issued by the State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee, was dated Monday. Photo: Mizzima |
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| NLD Vice Chairman Tin Oo speaks to journalists, monks and others after a meeting with Abbot Ashin Pyinna Thiha at Shwenyawa Monastery in the Sardu Pariyatti Complex in Kyimyindaing Township in Rangoon on Thursday, December 15, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Shwenyawa Monastery Abbot Ashin Pyinna Thiha urges monks and others to return home on Thursday, December 15, 2011, after a meeting in the Sardu Pariyatti Complex in Kyimyindaing Township in Rangoon. He said his problem with the Sangha authority will be resolved. Photo: Mizzima |
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| The Thee Lay Thee traditional dance troupe, which recently returned to Burma, performs at the Western Park Royal Restaurant in Kandawgyi Garden in Rangoon on Thursday, December 8, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| The Thee Lay Thee comedy troupe is known for its biting satire and social commentary as well as its tradition dance performances. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Many of the comedy troupe members left Burma and recently returned following the offer of President Thein Sein for Burmese exiles to return home. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Family members of U Lwin and NLD General-Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi at the funeral service of NLD founder U Lwin on Thursday, December 8, 2011 in Rangoon. An NLD flag is draped over the casket. Photo: Mizzima |
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| FNLD General-Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi, rear, listens to NLD senior leader Tin Oo read remarks at the funeral of U Lwin, a founder of the NLD, who died of natural causes on Wednesday, December 7, 2011, in Rangoon. The funeral on Thursday was attended by NLD members and the general public in honour of his public service and his career has a high-ranking military officer and pubic official. Photo: MIzzima |
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| People pay homage to U Lwin at Yayway Cemetery in Rangoon on Thursday, December 8, 2011. Photo: MIzzima |
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| Aung San Suu Kyi consoles a family member of U Lwin, rear near casket, during his funeral service on Thursday, December 8, 2011, in Rangoon. Photo: MIzzima |
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| Aung San Suu Kyi and family members of NLD founder U Lwin gather around the casket at his funeral service on Thursday, December 8, 2011, in Rangoon. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Family members of U Lwin and NLD General-Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi at the funeral service of NLD founder U Lwin on Thursday, December 8, 2011 in Rangoon. An NLD flag is draped over the casket. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Saint Mary's Cathedral in Rangoon celebrates 100th anniversary Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino, an evoy of the Pope from Vatican City, waves to well-wishers at Saint Mary's Cathedral in Botahtaung Township in Rangoon on Thursday, December 8, 2011. He came to Burma to attend the 100th anniversary of the cathedral and to read the felicitations sent by Pope Benedict XVI. Photo: Mizzima |
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| NLD senior leader Aung San Suu Kyi leaves Saint Mary's Cathedral in Rangoon on Thursday, December 8, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino and National League for Democracy General-Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi at the 100th anniversary of Saint Mary's Cathedral in Botahtaung Township in Rangoon on Thursday, December 8, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in Rangoon on Friday, December 2, 2011. She departed Burma later that day. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Reporters in Rangoon question U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the last day of her three-day visit to Burma. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Secretary Clinton addresses reporters during her press conference in Rangoon, following two days of intense meetings with members of the Burmese government, opposition political groups and ethnic groups. Photo: Mizzima |
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| U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to Burma was the highest-level visit in 56 years, following a visit by former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Photo: Mizzima |
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| U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi established a strong bond after only two meetings in Rangoon, pledging to work together in Burma's transition to democracy. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Secretary Hillary Clinton embrace in Rangoon on the last day of Clinton's visit to Burma. Photo: Mizzima |
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| As night fell in Rangoon on Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton walked through the Shwedagon Pagoda, one of Burma's most holy religious sites. After her visit, she was scheduled to have a private dinner with Nobel Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi at her lakeside home. Photo: Mizzima |
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| The gold and jewel-encrusted Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon was a spectacular backdrop to end the second day of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's three-day visit to Burma, which began on Wednesday. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Members of the Upper House of the Burmese Parliament are greeted by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Naypyitaw on Thursday, December 1, 2011. Clinton met with leading members of the new government and will meet with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi Thursday evening. Photo: Mizzima |
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| U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton chats with members of the Upper House of the Burmese Parliament on Thursday, December 1, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Khin Aung Myint, the speaker of the Upper House of the Burmese Parliament, meets with U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton during a meeting at the Parliamentary Compound in Naypyitaw on Thursday, December 1, 2011. Clinton is scheduled to dine with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday evening. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Shwe Mann, the speaker of the Lower House of the Burmese Parliament and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, at the Parliamentary Compound in Naypyitaw on Thursday, December 1, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |
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| U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with Thura Shwe Mann, the speaker of the Lower House of the Burmese Parliament at the Parliamentary Compound in Naypyitaw on December 1, 2011. Clinton is traveling to the country in the first visit by a U.S. secretary of state in 56 years. Photo: Mizzima |
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| U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Burmese President Thein Sein greet each other in Naypyitaw on Thursday, December 1, 2011. Clinton said the U.S. welcome the Burmese government's move to cut military ties with North Korea, and she asked it to release politicial prisoners. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Burmese President Thein Sein meets with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the President's Office in Naypyidaw on Thursday, December 1, 2011. Clinton is on a three-day visit to the country in the first visit by a U.S. secretary of state in more than 56 years. Photo: Mizzima |
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| U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's plane touched down in Naypyitaw on Wednesday, November 30, 2011. She was greeted by Burmese officials as the highest U.S. official to visit Burma in 56 years. Photo: Mizzima |
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| Hillary Clinton, the U.S. secretary of state, departs from her plane in Naypyitaw, the Burmese capital, on Wednesday, November 30, 2011. She will meet with President Thein Sein and share lunch with him and his family on Thursday. Photo: Mizzima |
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| U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is welcomed by Burmese officials as she arrives in Naypyitaw, the capital. She will also meet with Aung San Suu Kyi and opposition politicians during her three-day visit. Photo: Mizzima |
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