Photo News - April 2012

E.U. foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton, left, Aung San Suu Kyi and Rangoon Region Chief Minister Myint Swe at the opening ceremony for the new E.U. office in Rangoon on Saturday, April 28, 2012. Photo: Mizzima / Ye Min

National League for Democracy (NLD) chairman Aung San Suu Kyi and E.U. foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton at a press conference at NLD headquarters in Rangoon on Saturday, April 28, 2012. On Saturday, the E.U. opened a business office in Rangoon to facilitate aid projects in the country. Photo: Mizzima / Lynn Bo Bo

E.U. foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton at a press conference at NLD headquarters in Rangoon on Saturday, April 28, 2012.

National League for Democracy chairman Aung San Suu Kyi at a press conference at NLD headquarters in Rangoon on Saturday, April 28, 2012. Photo: Mizzima / Lynn Bo Bo

Rangoon Region Chief Minister Myint Swe after he attended a special meeting of the Rangoon Region Assembly on Thursday, April 26, 2012. Photo: Mizzima

Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi and Aung San Suu Kyi at a press conference following their meeting at Suu Kyi’s home in Rangoon onThursday, April 26, 2012. Suu Kyi said  she did not think that her party’s delay to attend the reconvened Parliament was a political problem, and she believed a compromise would be reached soon through negotiations with the government. Photo: Mizzima / Lynn Bo Bo

Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi with Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday, April 26, 2012, at her home in Rangoon following a private meeting. He said the Burmese government’s democratization process was encouraging, and that he supported the suspension of E.U sanctions earlier this week. Photo: Mizzima / Ye Min

A print media regulations workshop was held at the Chatrium Hotel on Kandawgyi Circular Road in Rangoon on Wednesday, April 25, 2012. Photo: Mizzima / Min Min Oo

Ye Htut, the director general of the Ministry of Information, gives a talk at a media workshop in Rangoon on Wednesday, April 25, 2012. Photo: Mizzima / Min Min Oo

Deputy Minister for Information Soe Win speaks at the workshop on Broadcast Media Regulation at the Amara Hotel in Naypyitaw on Monday, April 23, 2012. Burma is in the process of changing its press regulations laws, which are currently under review by the Parliament. Photo: Mizzima / Min Min Oo

Ranga Kalansooriya of International Media Support speaks at a workshop on Broadcast Media Regulation in Naypyitaw on Monday, April 23, 2012. The conference explored media law and ethnics. Photo: Mizzima / Min Min Oo

Toby Mendeu of International Media Support speaks at a workshop on Broadcast Media Regulation in Naypyitaw on Monday, April 23, 2012. Photo: Mizzima / Min Min Oo

Audience members at a workshop on Broadcast Media Regulation at the Amara Hotel in Naypyitaw on Monday, April 23, 2012. Photo: Mizzima / Min Min Oo

Burmese Defence Services representatives take the oath of office for new Members of Parliament at the third regular session of the Upper House in Naypyitaw on Monday, April 23, 2012. Fifty-five new military representatives were sworn in including 39 in the Lower House and 20 in the Upper House. Photo: Mizzima / Lynn Bo Bo

Members of Parliament of the Burmese Upper House at the third regular parliamentary session on Monday,  April 23, 2012. Photo: Mizzima / Lynn Bo Bo

A ceremony honouring senior National League for Democracy [NLD] members including chairwoman Aung San Suu Kyi, center, and NLD patrons was held at NLD headquarters in Bahan Township in Rangoon on Wednesday, April 18, 2012, to mark Burma's New Year Day. Photo: Mizzima

88-Generation group members and a Thingyan group perform humorous  lampoons during the traditional Water Festival on Saturday, April 14, 2012, at North Okkalapa Township in Rangoon. Photo: Mizzima

A Water Festival audience listens to lampoons recited by 88-Generation group members on Saturday, April 14, 2012, in front of the Mingalarmon Market in Rangoon. Photo: Mizzima

British PM David Cameron and Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi talk in a garden area of her home in Rangoon on Friday, April 13, 2012. Photo: Mizzima / Ye Min

British Prime Minister David Cameron and Aung San Suu Kyi at a press conference at her home in Rangoon on Friday, April 13, 2012. The PM and Suu Kyi said that all sanctions except the arms embargo should now be suspended. Photo: Mizzima / Ye Min