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Photo News - December 2011

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American sculptor and artist Jim McNalis, who has done a widely recognized bust of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, visits her at her home in Rangoon on Thursday, December 28, 2011. Photo: Mzzima 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 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 A rescue worker searches for a missing fireman at the explosion site at 3:45 a.m. on Thursday, December 29, 2011. Photo: Mizzima 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 House debris in Kutohseik Ward following the explosions in an industrial zone in Rangoon on Thursday, December 29, 2011. Photo: Mizzima Rescue workers search through the debris after the explosion at the Mettamon warehouses in Sat San Complex on Thursday, December 29, 2011. Photo: Mizzima Four firemen near a damaged fire engine at the Rangoon explosion site on Thursday, December 29, 2011. Photo: Mizzima 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 A fire scene in Kutohseik Ward early in the morning on Thursday, December 29, 2011. Photo: Mizzima A fire scene in Kutohseik  Ward on Thursday, December 29, 2011. Photo: Mizzima Firemen fight the fire at a warehouse early in the morning on Thursday, December 29, 2011. Photo: Mizzima Rescue workers search for missing people through the debris early on Thursday, December 29, 2011. Photo: Mizzima A man searches for his missing mother in Kutohseik  Ward at 3:30 a.m. on Thursday, December 29, 2011. Photo: Mizzima Rescue workers on Thursday, December 29, 2011. Photo: Mizzima A man carries his property as the fire burns at 3:50 a.m. on Thursday, December 29, 2011. Photo: Mizzima 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 Marty Natalegawa, the Indonesian foreign minister. Photo: Mizzima Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa speaks to the Rangoon media on Wednesday, December 28, 2011. Photo: Mizzima 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 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 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 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 Aung San Suu Kyi meeting with Burmese Parliament Speaker Shwe Mann  in Naypyitaw on Saturday, December 23, 2011. Photo: Mizzima Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, center, meeting with members of the Burmese Election Commission in Naypyitaw on Friday,  December 23, 2011. Photo: Mizzima 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 After the peacemaking meeting, Aung Min said that meetings between ethnic armed groups and the government are creating trust. Photo: Mizzima 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 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 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 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 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 Burmese President Thein Sein delivers the keynote address during the 4th Greater Mekong Subregion Summit in Naypyitaw on Tuesday, December 20, 2011. Photo: AFP Aung San Suu Kyi leaves a meeting of the 21 founders of the reformed National League for Democracy on Monday, December 19, 2011, in Rangoon. The party nominated Tin Oo and her as first leader and second leader, respectively. They will go to Naypyitaw soon to re-register the party. Photo: Mizzima NLD spokesman Nyan Win talks to reporters about Tin Oo and Suu Kyi traveling to Naypyitaw to re-register the party.  Photo: Mizzima 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 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 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 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 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 UNICEF vehicles carrying personnel who organized a shipment of relief aid to Kachin refugees. The supplies are the first significant international aid allowed to enter the area by the Burmese government since renewed fighting broke out in July in Kachin State. Photo: Kachinnet Demonstrators in front of the Chinese Embassy in London on Monday, December 12, 2011, calling on China to work for human rights in Burma and North Korea. Photo: Burma Campaign UK 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 The Thee Lay Thee comedy troupe is known for its biting satire and social commentary as well as its tradition dance performances. Photo: Mizzima 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 Family and friends at Yayway Cemetery for the funeral of U Lwin, 87, a founder of the National League for Democracy (NLD), who died on Wednesday, December 7, 2011, in Rangoon of natural causes. Photo: MIzzima NLD 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 People pay homage to U Lwin at Yayway Cemetery in Rangoon on Thursday, December 8, 2011. Photo: MIzzima 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 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 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 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 Reporters in Rangoon question U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the last day of her three-day visit to Burma. Photo: Mizzima 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Burmese President Thein Sein greet each other in Naypyitaw on Thursday, December 1, 2011. Clinton asked Burma to break illicit military ties to North Korea and to release political prisoners. Photo: Mizzima 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 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 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 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

Photo News - November 2011
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