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Photo News - November 2009
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Monday, 02 November 2009 13:28
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi arriving at the Dusit Innya Lake Hotel for a meeting with Kurt Campbell, US Assistant Secretary of State, led high level representatives on Wednesday. Photo – Mizzima. A group of youths in Northern Thailand’s Chiang Mai town preparing to release a hot-air balloon on November 2, 2009 night. Photo – Mizzima. Like the Kathina in Burma, traditional Loi Kathrong is being celebrated widely throughout Thailand. The premier Burmese Rock Band “Emperor” on November 1, Sunday, celebrated its 25th anniversary with a live-show in Rangoon’s Kandawgyi Myawsikyun, where hundreds of fans cheered through the night. Alongside the Emperor’s lead singer Zaw Win Htut, popular vocalists Ringo, Sithu Lwin, Alex, Myo Kyawh Myaing, E- Toe, Haymar Nawin, and Shee, performed during the show. Photo – Myo Thein
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Photo News - October 2009
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Friday, 02 October 2009 13:48
The Bone Ka Htein festival being held in Rangoon’s Lanmadaw Street. Photo – Mizzima. Local residents said the once popular Lanmadaw Bone Ka Htein festival has lost its former glory. Vehicular traffic came to a halt in Burma’s former capital Rangoon after water inundated the streets following incessant rain on October 20. Photo - Mizzima Burmese pro-democracy activists on Wednesday brief representatives of European Union countries and envoys to the United Nations at a round-table discussion on hosted by Czech Republics permanent representative to the UN, Martin Palouš. Photo - Mizzima. The activists, who are in a lobbying trip to United States, urged representatives of the UN and EU countries to push for a strong-language condemnation against the Burmese junta in the 64th UN General Assembly resolution.  
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Photo News - September 2009
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Thursday, 03 September 2009 20:00
National League for Democracy (NLD), Burma’s main opposition party, on Sunday reiterates their call for the release of detained party leaders including Aung San Suu Kyi, as they marked the 21st anniversary of party founding. Photo – Mizzima. The NLD has said, it is willing to join the 2010 elections if the ruling junta releases political prisoners, start a dialogue with the opposition as the 1990 election winning party, and agrees to amend its 2008 constitution. Barbecues, which are widely known as ‘Korean Kim’, have become popular among people in Rangoon. But apprehensive that the barbecues might be used with chemicals that could cause cancer, the Ministry of Health and Food & Drugs Authorities (FDA), is conducting a test on the food. Photo – Mizzima. FDA has also been conducting  tests on other foods including the popular tea-pickle or Laphet, chilli powders, and fish and shrimp paste and are known to be slightly more outspoken about their findings and their work compared to other ministries in military-ruled Burma. Zaw Win, Director of the Prison Directorate admonishes prisoners of the notorious Insein, before they are set free as part of the government’s amnesty to 7,114 prisoners. Photo – Mizzima. The Burmese junta’s amnesty includes a few prisoners of conscience.        
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Photo News - August 2009
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Tuesday, 04 August 2009 17:46
Jeeps, carrying goods to be transported to India, being checked at a check point in Hai Muol town of Chin state’s Teddim Township, close to the India-Burma border town of Tio. Photo – Mizzima. Sources said, authorities have tightened regulations on the flow of goods and commodities along  the border. A fire broke out in the Myanmar Winery and Distillery Co. Ltd and a boiler exploded in Hlegu township, Rangoon on Saturday 7 p.m. killing three people and injuring six. Photo: Mizzima.  Investigations are on in the case of the company, which has a lion's share of the whisky  market in Burma. Over 170 sales centres of business enterprises selling off commodities including clothes, cosmetic, food items, electrical goods and electronics at the Rangoon Trade Exhibition at the ‘Tatmadaw Hall’ with discounts of up to 60 per cent . The exhibition was held from August 20 to August 23. Photo – Mizzima.      
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Aung San Suu Kyi supporters gather around Insein prison
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009 16:33


 

 

 
 
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