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Burmese Prime Minister Thein Sein (centre) passes an honour guard on his arrival at Noi Bai airport in Hanoi, on October 27, 2010. He is in the Vietnamese capital to attend the 17th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) summit from October 28 to 30. Photo: AFP Union Solidarity and Development Party secretary Htay Oo told local and foreign journalists at party headquarters in Bahan Township, Rangoon Division, today (October 27, 2010), that the party already had prospective presidential candidates. Rangoon Division party leader and city mayor Aung Thein Lin and about 80 journalists attended. Photo: Mizzima Union Solidarity and Development Party secretary Htay Oo told local and foreign journalists at party headquarters in Bahan Township, Rangoon Division, today (October 27, 2010), that the party already had prospective presidential candidates. Rangoon Division party leader and city mayor Aung Thein Lin and about 80 journalists attended. Photo: Mizzima An activist protests against United Nations inertia over Burma rights abuses in front of the UN regional complex on Rajadamnoen Avenue, Bangkok, Thailand, on Tuesday, October 26, 2010. The demonstration was held as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon met Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva in the city. Ban’s recent report to the General Assembly on the situation of human rights in Burma omitted the UN rights envoy to the country’s key recommendation that the UN establish a commission of inquiry ‘to address the question of international crimes’ in Burma. Photo: Mizzima Smoke towers on Monday afternoon, October 25, 2010, over a fire that broke out at an oil pipeline near Nyaunghla, Village in Pakkoku District, Magway Division on Sunday. Local police said the blaze still burning at noon on Monday was brought under control later in the evening. At least 13 people, most whom were skimming fuel from a leaking pipe, were killed in the blast that ignited the inferno. Photo: Mizzima A member of the National Democratic Force party hands out campaign leaflets to a trishaw passenger during a campaign tour of Rangoon on October 20, 2010. Junta electoral watchdog Union Election Commission chairman Thein Soe said more than 3,000 candidates from 37 parties and more than 80 independents will contest in the November 7 vote. Photo: AFP Burma’s new national flag, a central white star set against a yellow, green and red background, flies in front of City Hall, Rangoon on October 21, 2010. Rangoon Mayor Aung Thein Lin presided over the flag-raising ceremony at 3:30 p.m. as a military band played Burmese national anthem. Photo: Mizzima Rangoon Mayor Aung Thein Lin bows as the old national flag of Burma is taken down during a ceremony at City Hall on Thursday, October 21, 2010. The old flag was adopted on January 3, 1974 upon the declaration of Burma as a socialist republic; the new flag was designated in the controversial 2008 constitution. Photo: Mizzima The junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) opened its free Phyo Saydanar clinic in Bahan Township, Rangoon, on Wednesday, October 20, 2010, as Burma’s first elections in 20 years draw near. The party has a rich campaign war chest and has been accused of unethical practices and of having a grossly unfair advantage over rivals with its lavish spending on public projects and offers of cheap loans to farmers for votes. Photo: Mizzima Activists from the Burma Liberation Front based in Britain protest against the Burmese junta’s election on November 7 and ‘unfair’ absentee voting procedures at the Burmese embassy in London, on Saturday, October 16. 2010. About 10,000 eligible voters reside in Britain but the mission invited only a few ‘pro-junta’ citizens to cast their votes, the group said. Photo: Burma Liberation Front A motorcyclist passes the 65-room Kandawgyi Palace Hotel, a huge teak resort on Kandawgyi Lake in Mingalar Taungnyunt Township in the former Burmese capital of Rangoon, on Monday, October 18, 2010. A spokesman from junta crony tycoon Tay Za’s Htoo Trading Company confirmed exile media reports last week that the firm would complete the purchase of the property before November for US$29 million. After that, the firm would rename the hotel, which also houses an underground club that counts prominent businessmen and children of military officers as members. Photo: Mizzima Burma Campaign UK officer Wai Hnin conquers her admitted fear of heights in a 160-foot (48-metre) bungee jump at the O2 Arena in London, on Saturday, October 16, 2010 to raise funds for the rights advocacy’s work on behalf of political prisoners. The 21-year-old refugee and campaigns officer said her fear of the jump was nothing compared to that suffered by her father Mya Aye – serving a 65-year sentence after his arrest at the start of the ‘Saffron Revolution’ pro-democracy uprising in 2007 – and the more than 2,100 political prisoners in Burma, including detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Photo: Burma Campaign UK Dr. Than Win, Rangoon Division election campaign committee chairman for the National Democratic Force (NDF) party, speaks at a party meeting on Friday, October 15, 2010. Local authorities and ward electoral commissions had been interfering with the party’s campaigning ahead of national elections on November 7, and had tried to tarnish the party’s image, further signs that the polls were neither free nor fair, he said. Photo: Mizzima Residents of Myayinanda Ward, Mandalay, on Wednesday, October 13, 2010, take refuge on a wooden bed after the area was inundated following heavy rain that filled Seitawlay and Seitawgyi dams to near capacity. Officials were forced to open dam floodgates, waters from which also swamped Aungpinlay and Thamankone wards and displaced around 2,500 people. Photo: Mizzima Vehicular and pedestrian traffic slows to a crawl in Myayinanda Ward, Mandalay, on Wednesday, October 13, 2010, after the area was inundated following heavy rain that pushed Seitawlay and Seitawgyi dams to near capacity. Officials were forced to open the dams’ floodgates, waters from which also swamped Aungpinle and Thamankone wards and displaced a total of around 2,500 people. Photo: Mizzima Drivers wait for floods to subside on the Monywa-Mandalay Road in Sagaing Division, in Burma’s north, after heavy rain almost caused the nearby Kaboe Dam to overflow, on Wednesday, October 13, 2010. The dam’s floodgates were opened, causing flooding downstream that swept a small car off the road and inundated homes and farmland in Nyaungbinwun village. Photo: Mizzima A spectacle vendor displays her goods in the shadow of a Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) poster bearing the pictures of its four candidates to stand in Rangoon’s Tarmway Township constituency, on Tuesday, October 12, 2010. The junta-backed USDP emerged from the now-defunct Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA), notorious for its bloody attacks on pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her entourage in Depayin, northern Burma in 2003. USDA members beat to death more than 70 National League for Democracy supporters then and aided the bloody suppression of the ‘Saffron Revolution’ in 2007. Photo: Mizzima National A trishaw driver in North Okkalapa Township inspects a campaign leaflet with information about National Democratic Force (NDF) party candidates, in Rangoon on Tuesday, October 12, 2010. The party was formed by former members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) who chose to contest the national polls on November 7, which the NLD had earlier denounced as unfair and unjust. The NDF use of the bamboo hat, the traditional symbol of the NLD, created great controversy. Photo: Mizzima A young National Democratic Force (NDF) campaigner wearing a traditional Burmese peasants’ hat displays his party badge in North Okkalapa Township, Rangoon, on Tuesday, October 12, 2010. The party was formed by former members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) who chose to contest the national polls on November 7, which the NLD had earlier denounced as unfair and unjust. The NDF use of the bamboo hat, the traditional symbol of the NLD, created great controversy. Photo: Mizzima A North Okkalapa Township constituent reads campaign material promoting Ba Tint Swe, an independent People’s Assembly candidate for the town in the former Burmese capital of Rangoon on Tuesday, October 12, 2010. He is one of 14 Rangoon candidates without party affiliation contesting in Burma’s first elections for two decades. Photo: Mizzima A North Okkalapa Township constituent reads campaign material promoting Ba Tint Swe, an independent People’s Assembly candidate for the town in the former Burmese capital of Rangoon on Tuesday, October 12, 2010. He is one of 14 Rangoon candidates without party affiliation contesting in Burma’s first elections for two decades. Photo: Mizzima National Democratic Party (Myanmar) chairman Thu Wai (fourth left) presides over the opening ceremony of independent candidates’ offices at North Okkalapa Township in Rangoon on Sunday, October 10, 2010. Fourteen independents from Burma’s former capital set up the campaign office after forming an alliance recently ahead of Burmese elections on November 7. Photo: Mizzima National Democratic Force leader Khin Maung Swe (centre, brown jacket) officiates at the opening of a party office in the city of Pegu, 50 miles (80 kilometres) north of the former Burmese capital of Rangoon, on Thursday, October 7, 2010. Photo: Mizzima Waves pummel the foreshore of Sittwe, in Burma’s western Arakan State on Friday morning, October 5, 2010, during a storm surge from a tropical cyclone in the Bay of Bengal. Meteorologist Dr. Tun Lwin warned of heavy rain in Arakan, Chin, and Kachin states and Sagaing Division and a deluge has already hit the Arakanese towns of Maungdaw, Rathedaung and Kyaukphyu. At least 200 fishermen in Bangladesh were missing after 15 boats capsized in the bay, boat operators said on Thursday and around 150,000 people have had to flee their homes, officials said. The surge over the past three days has sent five-foot (1.5-metre) waves crashing into towns around the bay, washing away homes, breaching embankments and flooding roads. Photo: Mizzima A bomb-squad soldier checks a car before it enters the Yangon (Rangoon) Trade Fair 2010 at the Tatmadaw (Military) Hall in the former Burmese capital on Thursday, October 7, 2010. The show is being held until Sunday under tight security, with at least 30 men from a civilian company and plain-clothes Military Affairs Security (Burma’s military intelligence wing) officers on patrol, and about 40 soldiers and police guarding the hall’s entrances. Photo: Mizzima Armed guards inspect a visitor’s bag at an entrance to the Yangon (Rangoon) Trade Fair 2010 at the Tatmadaw (Military) Hall in the former Burmese capital on Thursday, October 7, 2010. The show is being held until Sunday under tight security, with at least 30 private security and plain-clothes Military Affairs Security (Burma’s military intelligence wing) officers on patrol, and about 40 soldiers and police guarding the hall’s entrances. Photo: Mizzima A young passer-by lingers at a popcorn stall in front of the Yangon (Rangoon) Trade Fair 2010 at the Tatmadaw (Military) Hall in the former Burmese capital on Thursday, October 7, 2010. The exhibition fair drew a poor turnout after heavy rain this morning and, of course, the fact that half of Burma’s population of more than 50 million live in extreme poverty (income of about US$1.25 a day). The rain led organisers to extend the show of 92 companies’ products to October 10. Photo: Mizzima The International Burmese Monks Organisation and Amnesty International marked the third anniversary of the 2007 ‘saffron revolution’ in Burma with a screening of Burma VJ at the library of the University of Auckland in New Zealand, on Monday, October 4, 2010. About 50 people attended the screening of the film shot by Burmese reporters that tells the story of pro-democracy protests led by monks across Burma in 2007. Photo: Mizzima The International Burmese Monks Organisation and Amnesty International marked the third anniversary of the 2007 ‘saffron revolution’ in Burma with a screening of Burma VJ at the library of the University of Auckland in New Zealand, on Monday, October 4, 2010. About 50 people attended the screening of the film shot by Burmese reporters that tells the story of pro-democracy protests led by monks across Burma in 2007. Photo: Mizzima The International Burmese Monks Organisation and Amnesty International marked the third anniversary of the 2007 ‘saffron revolution’ in Burma with a screening of Burma VJ at the library of the University of Auckland in New Zealand, on Monday, October 4, 2010. About 50 people attended the screening of the film shot by Burmese reporters that tells the story of pro-democracy protests led by monks across Burma in 2007. Photo: Mizzima A woman votes in a trial run of booth facilities at a polling station in Latha Township, western Rangoon, on Friday, October 1, 2010. The dry run was part of preparations 37 days ahead of Burma’s first national elections in two decades. Photo: Mizzima


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