{rokbox album=|May10| title=| Deadly warehouse explosion, fire devastates large area Firemen work to extinguish secondary fires after a massive explosion among warehouses in an industrial area of Rangoon on Thursday, December 29, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |}images/2011/april-june/explose.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=| Deadly warehouse explosion, fire devastates large area Firemen work to extinguish secondary fires after a massive explosion among warehouses in an industrial area of Rangoon on Thursday, December 29, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |}images/2011/april-june/explose1.jpg{/rokbox}{rokbox album=|May10| title=| On invitation of the Foreign Ministry of Poland, eight members of NLD Youth visited Poland on 11th through 17th December and came back to Burma on 18th December, 2011. Photo: Internet |}images/2011/april-june/poland.jpg{/rokbox}{rokbox album=|May10| title=| 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 |}images/2011/april-june/government-union-level-peacemaking-delegation.jpg{/rokbox}{rokbox album=|May10| title=| From the left, Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen, Laotian Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong, Burmese President Thein Sein, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and China State Councilor Dai Bingguo during the opening of 4th Greater Mekong Subregion Summit in Naypyitaw on Tuesday, December 20, 2011. Photo: AFP|}images/2011/april-june/subregion-summit-naypyitaw.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, right, meets Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon, Burma (AP)|}images/2011/april-june/dawsu-ying.jpg{/rokbox}{rokbox album=|May10| title=|37th anniversary of Arakan State Day is being held in Chauh Phew town from 13 December. Photo: Narinjara|}images/2011/april-june/Arakan-state-day-pic.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|37th anniversary of Arakan State Day is being held in Chauh Phew town from 13 December. Photo: Narinjara|}images/2011/april-june/Arakan-state-day-pic2.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Nearly 150 ethnic people, including Arakanese, held banners and placards that read, "BBC, Stop Instigating Conflicts in Burma," in front of the BBC Worldwide Americas office in New York on 9 December. Photo: Narinjara|}images/2011/april-june/Arakanese-in-USAstage-protest-against-BBC.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Nearly 150 ethnic people, including Arakanese, held banners and placards that read, "BBC, Stop Instigating Conflicts in Burma," in front of the BBC Worldwide Americas office in New York on 9 December. Photo: Narinjara|}images/2011/april-june/Arakanese-in-USA-stage-protestBBC.jpg{/rokbox}{rokbox album=|May10| title=|The authorities of Thai and Burma reopened their friendship bridge called Myawaddy-Mae Sot on 5th December 2011. Photo: KIC|}images/2011/april-june/myawaddy-bridge-open.jpg{/rokbox}{rokbox album=|May10| title=|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|}images/2011/april-june/harry-pagoda.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|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|}images/2011/april-june/harry-thein.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton waves upon her arrival in Naypyitaw on Wednesday, November 30, 2011. Clinton's visit is the first top-level U.S. visit for half a century and seeks to encourage a movement toward democracy in military-dominated Burma. Photo: AFP|}images/2011/april-june/Hillary-Clinton-1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|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|}images/2011/april-june/kio-1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|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|}images/2011/april-june/kio2.jpg{/rokbox}{rokbox album=|May10| title=|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|}images/2011/april-june/Maha-Pathana.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|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|}images/2011/april-june/50-musicians.jpg{/rokbox}{rokbox album=|May10| title=|Leader Daw Aung Sang Suu Kyi is giving address at NLD headquarters meeting on 18 November.Photo: KIC|}images/2011/april-june/dawsu-kic.jpg{/rokbox}{rokbox album=|May10| title=|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|}images/2011/april-june/dawsu-mizzima.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|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|}images/2011/april-june/dawsu-mizzima1.jpg{/rokbox}{rokbox album=|May10| title=|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 |}images/2011/april-june/zar-su1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|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 |}images/2011/april-june/workshop.jpg{/rokbox}{rokbox album=|May10| title=|Karen workers - victims of Bangkok flood in plastic industry. Photo: KIC |}images/2011/april-june/bkk-flood.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Karen workers - victims of Bangkok flood in plastic industry. Photo: KIC |}images/2011/april-june/bkk-flood1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|A key bridge on the road connecting Pakkokku with Mandalay in central Burma lies in ruins after heavy rains and flash floods swept through the region. The storms are being blamed for dozens of deaths. Photo: Mizzima.|}images/2011/april-june/pakhokku.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|The Kachin Development Network Group said surveyors were seen working in the Myitsone Dam project area on Thursday, October 11, 2011. The workers, on the right, appeared to be conducting land surveys between Lahpye and Tawngban villages. This photo was taken looking upstream. The Irrawaddy-Myitsone bridge and a containment wall can be seen in the distance. Construction Site No.7 is directly across the road to the right. Photo: KDNG|}images/2011/april-june/pakhokku1.jpg{/rokbox}{rokbox album=|May10| title=|Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, left, stands as Burmese President Thein Sein shakes hands with Indian President Prathibha Patil flanked by Burma's first lady Khin Khin Win during a full state welcome at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi on Friday, October 14, 2011. India rolled out the red carpet, sensing a chance to deepen relations with a neighbour traditionally allied to New Delhi's regional rival Beijing. Photo: AFP|}images/2011/april-june/indian1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Burmese President Thein Sein, center, is welcomed by Indian officials upon arrival at Gaya International Airport on October 12, 2011. His official visit to India offers New Delhi a chance to deepen its relations with a neighbour that has traditionally allied with India's regional rival China. Thein Sein will travel to two major Buddhist pilgrimage sites in eastern India before flying to New Delhi on Friday for the official leg of his state visit. Photo: AFP |}images/2011/april-june/indian2.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Demonstrating 300 Burmese nationals in front of Myanmar Embassy in Malaysia to stop Myitsone Dam project, Civil War and to release Political Prisoners in Burma.(Photo:KIC)|}images/2011/april-june/demo1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Demonstrating 300 Burmese nationals in front of Myanmar Embassy in Malaysia to stop Myitsone Dam project, Civil War and to release Political Prisoners in Burma.(Photo:KIC)|}images/2011/april-june/demo2.jpg{/rokbox}{rokbox album=|May10| title=|Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, left, toasts with Burmese President Thein Sein during a meeting held on her first visit to the military-dominated country since she took office in August. While Western nations have imposed sanctions on resource-rich Burma because of its poor human rights record, Asian neighbours such as Thailand, China and India have forged close economic ties, particularly in oil and gas. Photo: provided by Thai Government House|}images/2011/april-june/yingluck1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, left, with Burma's President Thein Sein during a meeting on Wednesday. Photo: provided by Thai Government House |}images/2011/april-june/yingluck2.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|4th anniversary of the Saffron Revolution was held in Bangladesh on 26 Sept. 2011. Photo: Narinjara|}images/2011/april-june/Saffron-photo.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Security forces gather in Rangoon in response to a group of 200 protesters who tried to march to Sule Pagoda on Monday, September 26, 2011. The protesters, who were trying to mark the fourth anniversary of the 'Saffron Revolution,' were stopped and dispersed. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/Saffron-Revolution1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Security police photograph protesters as they chant 'loving kindness' prayers in Rangoon on Monday, September 26, 2011. The protesters were prevented from walking to Shule Pagoda and dispersed. Photo: Mizzima |}images/2011/april-june/Saffron-Revolution2.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Flood occupies everywhere inside and outside of Mae Sot, Thailand. Photo: KIC |}images/2011/april-june/floating.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Flood occupies everywhere inside and outside of Mae Sot, Thailand. Photo: KIC |}images/2011/april-june/floating-1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|A signature campaign calling for the release of Hkun Htun Oo, Chairman of the defunct Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) on his 68th birthday ceremony held today 12 September. Photo: S.H.A.N. |}images/2011/april-june/u-taung-ko.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|A signature campaign calling for the release of Hkun Htun Oo, Chairman of the defunct Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) on his 68th birthday ceremony held today 12 September. Photo: S.H.A.N. |}images/2011/april-june/Daw.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Comedians Zee Thee, Sein Thee and Gozilla and dancer Chaw Su Myo, left to right, leave Rangoon International Airport after arriving from Chiang Mai, Thailand, on Sunday, September 11, 2011. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/tee-lay-tee.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|About 300 monks in Sittwe, the capital of Arakan state, marched on 9 Sept. into Ottama garden to commemorate the Ottama monument on the 72nd anniversary of Ottama's death. Photo: Narainjara|}images/2011/april-june/u-otta.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|About 300 monks in Sittwe, the capital of Arakan state, marched on 9 Sept. into Ottama garden to commemorate the Ottama monument on the 72nd anniversary of Ottama's death. Photo: Narainjara|}images/2011/april-june/u-otta-1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|A young man reads an article by Aung San Suu Kyi published in the People’s Era Journal near a poster that advertises the journal at a shop in Rangoon on Tuesday, September 6, 2011. Last week, the state censorship board told the journal to remove some paragraphs of Suu Kyi’s article—her first effort to publish in a local journal since her release from house arrest— but later allowed the article to be published without changes. The article recounts her personal pilgrimage to Bagan, the ancient temple site. Photo: Mizzima |}images/2011/april-june/messenger1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|A journal vendor carries a copy of 'People’s Era Journal' on Tuesday, September 6, 2011. The journal includes an article written by Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi about her recent personal pilgrimage to Bagan and an article by Win Tin, a National League for Democracy leader, titled “Fifth Pillar” about the role of the media in society. Photo: Mizzima |}images/2011/april-june/messenger2.jpg{/rokbox}{rokbox album=|May10| title=|Influenza widespread at Kareni refugees' camp No. 1 in Thailand and more than 400 people are suffering from the disease. Photo: KT |}images/2011/april-june/influenza.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|The opening ceremony of Computer teaching class for one month in Karen State, Burma. Photo: KIC|}images/2011/april-june/pic-KIC.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=| One of four passengers who were injured when the last coach of the Rangoon 'circle' train went off the tracks on Thursday, September 1, 2011. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/pic-2-mizzima.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=| A large crowd gathers around one passenger coach of the Rangoon 'circle' train that derailed on Thursday, September 1, 2011. The last coach of the inbound train slipped off the tracks at 1:55 p.m local time and derailed, seriously injuring four passengers. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/Pic-3-mizzima.jpg{/rokbox}
