{rokbox album=|May10| title=|Burmese authorities raised from July 1 onwards, the passenger tax at Rangoon International Airport for Burmese citizens 600 per cent, from 500 Kyat (around 50 US cents) to 3,000 Kyat (around US$3). Foreigners, however, must still pay the previous rate of around US$10. Photo: Mizzima.|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/rangoon-airport-tax1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Dr. Than Nyein, chairman of the National Democratic Force party, which broke away from the National League for Democracy over opposition to the latter’s boycott of polls to be held on November 7, presides over the opening ceremony of the NDF office in Aungmyaythazan Township, Mandalay, in Upper Burma on August 19, 2010. Also today, the junta’s Union Election Commission announced in state-run media that parties need to obtain permission for their members to gather to conduct campaigns. Photo: Mizzima.|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/ndf-office-ygn1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|A fire official directs traffic in front of Thuria private petrol station at the corner of Anawrahta Road and Kaingtan Street in Lanmadaw Township, part of Rangoon’s Chinatown, where fire broke out at 3:10 p.m. on Wednesday, August 18, 2010. The flames failed to reach cars or the station’s petrol tanks, but two employees were taken to hospital with injuries. The blaze started at an electrical inverter, which it destroyed along with office equipment and stationery, a fire department source said.|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/fire-petrol-station-ygn1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Burmese opposition activists demonstrate on Friday (August 6) at the embassy of Burma in London ahead of yesterday’s 22nd anniversary of the nationwide “8888” uprising. The hundreds of protestors calling for multi-party democracy were gunned down by the military on orders of Burma’s ruling junta on August 8, 1988. Photo: Burma Campaign UK|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/22nd-anniversary-uk.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Rohingya refugee family in unregistered Rohingya camp ( Kutupalong makeshift) (Photo-Kaladan)|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/refugeefamily.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|People’s Parliament buildings in Naypyidaw remain unfinished though thousands of construction workers continue to hammer away on the project. By saying that the forthcoming elections would be neither free nor fair, Union Democratic Party chairman Phyo Min Thein yesterday decided to pull out of the junta’s election and quit his party. He said the junta’s electoral commission was a puppet organ and decried its bias towards the Union Solidarity and Development Party. Photo: Mizzima.|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/senate_in_naypyidaw1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Leaders of the National Democratic Force (NDF) including Khin Maung Swe (leftmost) and Dr. Than Nyein (fourth left) attending the signboard installation ceremony at party headquarters on Dagon Lwin Street, Tarmway Township  in Rangoon on Sunday, August 1.  Photo: Mizzima. The NLD splinter group's leaders said they have already selected candidates to contest in 50 townships.|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/ndf-party-signboard.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|A North Korean delegation led by Foreign Minister Pak Ui-Chun (middle; black shirt; with glasses) on a visit to the Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon, on Thursday, July 29, 2010. Photo: Mizzima.  The North Korean Foreign Minister met with Burma’s Prime Minister Thein Sein in Naypyidaw on Thursday morning.  Pak's visit comes just weeks after a senior defector from Burma's military research section revealed that Burma's military rulers have sought out North Korean assistance for development of a nuclear and missile program.|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/northkorea.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Flood waters from a bloated mountain stream threaten a thatched house in Taungphila ward, Kalay Township, in the northwest Burmese division of Sagaing, after a heavy downpour on Tuesday, July 27, 2010. About 50 houses were inundated and a six-year-old girl is missing. Photo: Mizzima|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/kalaymyo-flood1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Hpakant Flood Western Kachin State, Burma (Photo: Kachin News Group)|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/27710-hpakant-rise-river-1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Burmese activists protest in New Delhi against the five-day visit to India of Burmese military leader Senior General Than Shwe and his entourage, on Monday, July 26, 2010. The dictator and his 80-plus member delegation arrived in the world’s largest democracy on Sunday for talks centred on the signing of a range of economic pacts between the countries. One sign calls for Than Shwe to face the International Criminal Court. Photo: Mizzima.|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/demo-newdelhi-thanshwe1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Burmese dictator Senior General Than Shwe pays obeisance to a sitting Lord Buddha image inside Mahabodhi Temple in Bodhgaya, in the India state of Bihar, on Sunday, July 25, 2010. The chief of Burma’s military regime who is on five-day official visit to India, arrived in Bodhgaya yesterday and flew to New Delhi on Monday evening, where he and his 80-plus delegation of ministers and wives are staying at a five-star hotel. Also on Monday, Burmese and Indian pro-democracy activists took to the streets of the Indian capital, New Delhi, in protest marches against the visit. Photo: Mizzima|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/Burma-Army-Chief-2.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|These photos show how out-of-date Arakan is with the modern world. Most Arakanese people are still traveling from town to town in the state using row boats, because they are unable to afford gas engines to power their boats. (Photo-Narinjara)|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/Arakan-state-river-route-2.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Rangoon Mayor Aung Thein Lin dedicates a wreath in honour of the 63rd Burmese Martyrs’ Day, which commemorates the deaths of nine independence heroes including General Aung San, at the Martyrs’ Mausoleum on Monday, July 19, 2010. The ceremony was held at the Martyrs’ Mausoleum, near the West Archway of Shwedagon Pagoda at 8 a.m. today, but Aung San’s daughter, detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, was not invited and remains under house arrest. Photo: Mizzima|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/63rdburmese-martyrs-day.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Child Soldiers in Mon State (Photo-Kaowao).|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/Child-soldiers-in-Mon-state.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Actor Kyaw Thu (front, with beard) and other friends of author Nan Nyunt Swe, who died yesterday aged 87, carry out duties as pall-bearers for the father of comedian and political prisoner Zarganar, at Yayway cemetery in Rangoon on Thursday, July 15, 2010. The son is serving a 35-year sentence in Myitkyina Prison, Kachin State, for talking to foreign media in the wake of Cyclone Nargis, among other trumped up charges laid by officers of Burma’s military junta. Photo: Mizzima.|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/nangnyintshwe1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|A home in Thaminchan Village in Kawmhoo, Rangoon Division awaits repair on Wednesday, July 14, after a tornado ripped through the area early in the evening last Thursday. One woman was reported killed and at least 60 houses were damaged or destroyed, displacing 230 people. Authorities rejected victims’ pleas of permission for or help with a temporary housing camp, forcing them to seek refuge with relatives. Photo: Mizzima|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/kawmhoo-township1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|GTC Students Still Facing Difficulties with Bus Fares (Photo-Narinjara)|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/TUS-Car.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Members of Democratic Party (Myanmar) including party chairman Thu Wai (centre, in grey Burmese jacket) the middle man of the front row_ with Burmese traditional shirt) and secretary Than Than Nu (front, fourth left with purple shirt) attend the party’s signboard installation ceremony at its headquarters at No. (43), 52nd Street, Botahtaung Township in Rangoon on Friday morning. Thu Wai said its main rivals in elections to be held later this year would be the junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party and junta ally, the National Unity Party, the successor to the Burma Socialist Programme Party of the late former dictator Ne Win. Photo: Mizzima.|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/DMKRD.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Announcement on confiscation of unlicensed motorcycle for nation’s property (Photo-KNG)|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/cyclerim.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|These photos were taken by Narinjara Staff on 15 June 2010 during the downpour in Buthidaung. All urban areas of Buthidaung including hospitals, markets, ration stores, and many government buildings have been hit by flooding that reached up to seven feet. (photo-Narinjara)|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/Water-flooding-in-Buthidaung-18.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|A vendor on street selling that came into force yesterday, in front of steps to flats on Baho Road in Sanchaung Township, Rangoon on Thursday, July 8, 2010. Roadside shops were mostly absent from roads across 33 Rangoon townships covered by the ban. Photo: Mizzima|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/street-selling.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|KSPP takes public explanation on delay of party approval by EC for contesting 2010 election. (Photo-KNG)|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/kspp-meeting-3.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Takkatho Tin Kha (first left), Maung Wuntha (centre) and Paragu, run trained eyes over the People’s Era Journal at its launch in Rangoon on Tuesday, July 6, 2010, at the M3 restaurant near the northern archway of Shwedagon Pagoda. Despite low demand and very tight censorship by the Press Scrutiny and Registration Division, publications are still entering the market ahead of this year’s elections. Photo: Mizzima|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/peoples-era-journal2.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Baggage handlers ferry luggage today (July1) from aircraft at Rangoon International Airport, on the same day Burma’s ruling junta raised by 600 per cent the passenger tax for Burmese citizens, from 500 Kyats (about 50 US cents) to 3,000 Kyats. Foreigners must still pay US$10. Photo: Mizzima|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/international-airport-ygn.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|An official from the Permanent Mission of Burma to the United Nations in New York, his ID pass hidden in his top pocket, confronts protesters from Amnesty International and Burma Point after they placed at the mission’s entrance flowers and posters featuring the image of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in honour of her 65th birthday on June 19, 2010. He had put his foot on Suu Kyi’s face pictured on the poster while clearing away the flowers also with his feet, highly offensive acts in Burmese culture. Photo: Mizzima.|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/clear-poster-flowers.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|The junta's Telecommunication minister Brig-Gen Thein Zaw organized Rawang tribes under Kachin, the natives of Puta-O in Myitkyina for elections. Photo: Kachin News Group.|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/062510-usdpk.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|A sheet-metal worker on June 15 prepares to cut materials for a temporary building for vendors from the 406 shops at Chindwin Yadana Market in Monywa gutted by fire. Temporary shops are being set up at a new location on Nyaungdapin Road in the township northwest of Mandalay. Photo: Mizzima|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/yadana-market-rebuild.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Pedestrians wade along a flooded street near Maungdaw Hospital, Arakan State, on Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Heavy rain at around 10 a.m. on Monday continued for 12 hours, led to flooding in all four quarters of the town and forced the evacuation of more than 100 homes to High School No. 1 on higher ground. The Naf River runs to the west of Maungdaw, with tributaries to the north and south of the port town. Photo: Nyein Chan/Mizzima|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/mangtorr.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Dr. Elsa Stamatopoulou, Mr. Tun Khin of Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK, the eminent philosopher Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Professor Yasmine Ergas of Columbia University, Professor Benjamin Conisbee Baer of Princeton University, Attorney at Law Chaumtoli Cabrera and Dr. Golbarg Bashi from Rutgers University at the Secretariat of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/usaun_03.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|A man zooms for a closer look today (June 4, 2010) at a Rangoon police headquarters display of guns and ammunition used during an armed robbery on the night of May 16 in Dayellu Village in Kunchankone Township.|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/kunchankone-robbery-arrest1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Photo: Narinjara|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/Burmese-demonstrates-anger-against-military-junta.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Vehicular and pedestrian traffic slows to a crawl on Mahabandoola Road in central Rangoon on Friday (May 28, 2010) after late-afternoon floods hit the city. Despite Kabaraye weather station rainfall readings of just 0.08 inches (2.02 millimetres) at 3:30 p.m., extensive flooding affected roads in downtown areas. Photo: Mizzima|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/water-flood-yangoon1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Mudon Township rice farmers winnowing rice grains from their husks in 2009 : IMNA|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/paddy.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Passers-by inspect a tree that toppled in a gale in Monywa, Sagaing Division, at around 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 16, 2010. Mizzima News|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/wind--rain-monywa1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Scores of people wait for water to be delivered by charities in Dala Township, across the river from central Rangoon, on May 14.Mizzima News|}/files/images/2010/MayAug/dalah-dried-up-water3.jpg{/rokbox}

BNI Photos - January-April 2010