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Photo News - January 2011

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The abandoned former Thirimingala Market, once the largest wet wholesale bazaar in lower Burma, shown on Friday, January 28, 2011. Opened in 1998, the shopkeepers moved to a new location near Padauk Stream in Hlaing Township on December 25, 2010. (Photo : Mizzima) Many small vendors asked Rangoon Mayor Aung Thein Lin to provide new space for them at the relocated market, but the mayor and municipal office ignored the request. The abandoned former Thirimingala Market, once the largest wet wholesale bazaar in lower Burma, shown on Friday, January 28, 2011. Opened in 1998, the shopkeepers moved to a new location near Padauk Stream in Hlaing Township on December 25, 2010. (Photo : Mizzima) Many small vendors asked Rangoon Mayor Aung Thein Lin to provide new space for them at the relocated market, but the mayor and municipal office ignored the request. A picture of a newly married couple, actor Pyay Ti Oo and actress Eindra Kyaw Zin, has been  banned after it was published in the Monitor Journal this week. The picture showed  Eindra Kyaw Zin wearing what  state censors thought was a sexy dress, which they deemed culturally inappropriate. Photo: Mizzima National League for Democracy Vice Chairman Tin Oo, standing, speaks to NLD youth members in a meeting to discuss the book ‘Paradigm, Claps and Heart Beats of the Youth’ published by Yanantthit Publishing House. More than 40 youth members attended the meeting on Wednesday, January 26, 2010. Photo : Mizzima Car enthusiasts look over sports cars on display at the Yangon Auto Salon at the International Hotel in Rangoon on Sunday, January 23. Photo: Mizzima Rangoon sports car owners displayed some of their cars at the International Hotel in Rangoon on Sunday, January 23. Photo: Mizzima Rangoon sports car owners displayed some of their cars at the International Hotel in Rangoon on Sunday, January 23. Photo: Mizzima A model poses at the Automobile Show in the Tatmadaw Hall Convention Centre on U Wisara Road in Rangoon on Friday, January 21, the first day of the show. The four-day show features cars that are made in Burma in a joint venture with foreign companies. Photo : Mizzima A model poses at the Automobile Show in the Tatmadaw Hall Convention Centre on U Wisara Road in Rangoon on Friday, January 21, the first day of the show. The four-day show features cars that are made in Burma in a joint venture with foreign companies. Photo : Mizzima A model poses at the Automobile Show in the Tatmadaw Hall Convention Centre on U Wisara Road in Rangoon on Friday, January 21, the first day of the show. The four-day show features cars that are made in Burma in a joint venture with foreign companies. Photo : Mizzima Goods and money were offered to monks during the Ananda Pagoda Festival in Bagan on the full moon day of Pyatho on January 19. The month-long pagoda festival is most crowded on full moon day. Photo : Mizzima A queue of monks at the Ananda Pagoda Festival in Bagan before they received donations on January 19, the Full Moon Day of Pyatho according to the Burmese traditional calendar. The Ananda Pagoda, known as the Ananda Cave Temple, was built by King Kyansitthar in AD 1090 and is one of the  finest ancient pagodas in Bagan. Photo : Mizzima A procession of bullock carts at  the Ananda Pagoda Festival in Bagan return to their  villages on the morning of January 19, the Full Moon Day of Pyatho. Nearby residents make donations to monks during the festival and maintain the age-old tradition. Photo : Mizzima Trucks from Ministry of Industry (1) arrive to forcibly remove families from a three-storey apartment building at 33rd Street in Kyauktada Township in Rangoon on Tuesday, January 18, 2011. The apartment block was nationalized in 1963 and allocated to people. Later, residents resold their flats to others. On January 13, the Ministry of Industry (1) ordered the families to leave before January 19. Some families have refused to move. Officials of Military Division (4) are negotiating between the ministry and the families. Photo: Mizzima The families who live in this three-storey apartment block, center, which comprises a total of 12 rooms, were removed on Tuesday. Photo: Mizzima Members of one of the evicted families of the three-storey apartment block at 33rd Street in Kyauktada Township carry furniture from their apartment on Tuesday, January 18, 2011. Photo: Mizzima Naing Zaw of the  band Lazy Club talks in a press conference at the City Start Hotel in Rangoon on Friday, January 14, 2011, about the 52 Burmese singers who will participate in a music festival in Malaysia and Singapore in early February at a cost of 2 million ringgit (about US$ 654,000). Photo: Mizzima A procession of girls hold wreaths and flowers at the funeral service for writer and film director Maung Wunna in the Yayway Cemetery in Rangoon on Thursday, January 13, 2011. He died on Tuesday.  Photo : Mizzima Thousands of small vendors in Rangoon who had occupied temporary market space in the former Thirimingala Market shown here on January 12, after their pleas last month for new market space to Rangoon Mayor Aung Thein Lin were ignored. Photo: Mizzima A few of the small vendors in Rangoon who had occupied temporary market space in the former Thirimingala Market shown are shown here on January 12, after their pleas last month for new market space to Rangoon Mayor Aung Thein Lin were ignored. About 700 vendors were left without market space to sell their goods. Photo: Mizzima A two-storey derelict building at the corner of Bogyoke Road and 50th Street in Pazundaung Township in Rangoon collapsed on Tuesday afternoon. The front of the building collapsed as the rear of the building was being demolished to build a new house on the site. Photo: Mizzima A two-storey derelict building at the corner of Bogyoke Road and 50th Street in Pazundaung Township in Rangoon collapsed on Tuesday afternoon. The front of the building collapsed as the rear of the building was being demolished to build a new house on the site. Photo: Mizzima A two-storey derelict building at the corner of Bogyoke Road and 50th Street in Pazundaung Township in Rangoon collapsed on Tuesday afternoon. The front of the building collapsed as the rear of the building was being demolished to build a new house on the site. Photo: Mizzima A fire at a Myat Mettta Mon private petrol station in Panglong Ward in downtown Kalay in Sagaing Division on Monday started as a petrol tanker discharged fuel into a tank, destroying  the station and damaging petrol tankers. People gathered to watch the fire and firemen battled the blaze. No one was injured. Photo: Mizzima A fire at a Myat Mettta Mon private petrol station in Panglong Ward in downtown Kalay in Sagaing Division on Monday started as a petrol tanker discharged fuel into a tank, destroying  the station and damaging petrol tankers. People gathered to watch the fire and firemen battled the blaze. No one was injured. Photo: Mizzima A fire at a Myat Mettta Mon private petrol station in Panglong Ward in downtown Kalay in Sagaing Division on Monday started as a petrol tanker discharged fuel into a tank, destroying  the station and damaging petrol tankers. People gathered to watch the fire and firemen battled the blaze. No one was injured. Photo: Mizzima Burmese Army Northern Command chief Brig-Gen Zeya Aung and the Manau Festival organising committee chairman La Kari La Awng preside over the opening ceremony of the Manau Festival commemorating the 63rd Kachin State Day in Myitkyina on Jan. 7. Kachin perform the Manau dance. The festival was re-branded in state-owned media as the ‘Union Manau Festival’, causing offense to many Kachins. Photo: Mizzima Burmese Army Northern Command chief Brig-Gen Zeya Aung and the Manau Festival organising committee chairman La Kari La Awng preside over the opening ceremony of the Manau Festival commemorating the 63rd Kachin State Day in Myitkyina on Jan. 7. Kachin perform the Manau dance. The festival was re-branded in state-owned media as the ‘Union Manau Festival’, causing offense to many Kachins. Photo: Mizzima The Reverend Zong Kyang and Pastor Dau Khau from Kachin Christian Churches officiate at the entrance to Manau festival held at Manau Stadium in Sitapu quarter, Myitkyina on Friday Janaury 7, 2001. The annual festival this year commemorates the 63rd Kachin State Day. Less than half the usual number of visitors have attended this years opening festivities because they were organized by the Burmese military leaders' from the Northern Command office, according to local residents. The five-day festival will end on January 11, 2011. Photo : Mizzima Heavy construction equipment sorts road maintenance materials on December 23, 2010 along the 355km long Rangoon-Naypyidaw stretch of a 566km long national expressway project linking Rangoon with Mandalay through the new capital. The project has been criticised because of the road’s poor structure. Construction started in 2007, but the 210km Naypyidaw-Mandalay section was opened only recently in December 2010. The road has been subject to numerous accidents including involving Rangoon Mayor’s Aung Thein Lin’s car which was overturned on May 29, 2010. Prominent writers including poet Ant Maung, journalist Win Tin and novelist Dagon Taryar (from left to right) enjoy a chance meeting at Nan Yu Restaurant in Pansoedan township, Rangoon, on January 4, 2011. Dagon Taryar’s supporters had organised the meeting in honour of Burma’s 63rd Independence Day, before the novelist and literary critic returned home to Aungban in Shan State. During the meeting, he called for national unity to establish peace. Photo: Mizzima Dozens of activists from political organizations pay homage Buddha at the northwest corner of Shwedagon pagoda in the former capital Rangoon as part of prayer ceremonies for political prisoners on the evening of January 4, 2011. The day marked the 63 years since Burma achieved independence from British colonial rule. According to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) there are more than 2,200 political prisoners being held in jails throughout the country. The group says that conditions for political prisoners are extremely poor, many suffer isolation and ill health, and at least 146 prisoners have died in custody since 1988. Photo: Mizzima Activists light oil lamps, burn incense sticks and lay flowers in homage to Buddha at Shwedagon pagoda in Rangoon as part of prayer ceremonies for political prisoners on the evening of January 4, 2011. The day marked the 63 years since Burma achieved independence from British colonial rule. According to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) there are more than 2,200 political prisoners being held in jails throughout the country. The group says that conditions for political prisoners are extremely poor, many suffer isolation and ill health, and at least 146 prisoners have died in custody since 1988. Photo: Mizzima Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers an address commemorating Burma’s 63rd Independence Day at the National League for Democracy headquarters in Bahan Township, Rangoon, on January 4, 2011. Suu Kyi urged listeners to work together to achieve genuine independence. More than 1,000 people including veteran politicians, ethnic leaders, diplomats as well as candidates who stood in recent elections attended the event. Photo: Mizzima Two elderly members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) dance to a well know patriotic Khin Nyunt Yi song at a ceremony held today at party headquarters in Bahan township, Rangoon on January 4, 2011. Burma today marks its 63rd year of independence from British colonial rule. More than 1,000 people including veteran politicians, ethnic leaders, diplomats as well as candidates who stood in recent elections attended the event. Photo: Mizzima Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi opens a trade fair held at National League for Democracy (NLD) headquarters in Bahan Township, Rangoon, on January 2, 2011. The fair was held to mark Burma’s Independence Day which falls on the January 4, 2011 marking 63 years since Burma achieved independence from British rule. Profits from the trade fair will be donated to aid political prisoners and people living with HIV. There are over 2,200 political prisoners in Burma today, while a 2008 Unicef report estimates over 240,000 people live with HIV throughout the country. Photo: Mizzima Aung San Suu Kyi reads a local publication at a trade fair organized by the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Bahan Township, Rangoon on January 2, 2011. The fair was held to mark Burma’s Independence Day which falls on the 4th January, marking 63 years since Burma achieved independence from British rule. Profits from the trade fair will be donated to aid political prisoners and people living with HIV. There are over 2,200 political prisoners in Burma today, while a 2008 Unicef report estimates over 240,000 people live with HIV throughout the country. Photo: Mizzima Burmese pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi inspects local arts and crafts at a trade fair organized by the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Bahan Township, Rangoon on January 2, 2011. The fair was held to mark Burma’s Independence Day which falls on the 4th January, marking 63 years since Burma achieved independence from British rule. Profits from the trade fair will be donated to aid political prisoners and people living with HIV. There are over 2,200 political prisoners in Burma today, while a 2008 Unicef report estimates over 240,000 people live with HIV throughout the country. Photo: Mizzima

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