Red carpet

Bangkok, Thailand: Aung San Suu Kyi greets Burmese immigrants in Bangkok during her three-day official visit to Thailand. Photo: Borja Sanchez Trillo/Getty Images.

Thingyan Water Festival

Yangon, Myanmar: Traditional dancers perform during the opening ceremony of the annual Thingyan Water Festival, symbolising the cleansing and washing away the sins from the old year, and to mark the traditional new year. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA.

Granite and Rainbow

New president suggests the junta-drafted constitution that barred Aung San Suu Kyi from the presidency will be changed Myanmar has sworn-in Htin Kyaw as the country’s first civilian president in half a century, a man who is expected to act as a proxy for Aung San Suu Kyi in her fight to end the army’s grip on power. The 69-year-old, dressed in the National League for Democracy (NLD) party’s orange shirt, took an oath during a short ceremony and suggested that the junta-drafted constitution that barred Aung San Suu Kyi from the presidency will be changed. [Read more].

• Oliver Holmes, Myanmar swears in Htin Kyaw as first civilian president in decades, The Guardian, March 30, 2016

Myanmar’s new president, Htin Kyaw, arrives with Aung San Suu Kyi at the parliament in Naypyitaw. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA.

Aung San Suu Kyi has said she will be “above the president” but might not have a formal position in government. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA.

Spot the Difference

Naypyidaw, Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi leaves after a meeting with members of the National League for Democracy party. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA.

The First Time

In historic parliamentary vote, Aung San Suu Kyi’s party uses its majority to appoint her 69-year-old key aide as head of state. [Read more].

• Oliver Holmes, Myanmar parliament elects Htin Kyaw as first civilian president in 53 years, The Guardian, March 15, 2016

Htin Kyaw, Aung San Suu Kyi’s childhood friend and senior aide
Photo: Reuters

The Temple

• Sara Perria and Oliver Holmes, Aung San Suu Kyi’s party takes seats in historic session of Myanmar parliament, The Guardian, February 1, 2016

Aung San Suu Kyi leads party into Myanmar parliament

Unihemispheric slow-wave sleep

Yangon, Myanmar: Two leopard cats at Hlawga Wildlife Park. Photo: U Aung/新华通讯社 (Xīnhuá News Agency)/Corbis.

A Lady who never stepped on anyone

Myanmar’s opposition NLD party leader Aung San Suu Kyi reacts when some cameramen fall to the floor before casting her ballot in Yangon. Aung San Suu Kyi won Myanmar’s landmark election and claimed a staggering majority in parliament, ending half a century of dominance by the military. Photo: Jorge Silva/Reuters.

Strange News from Another Star

Yangon, Myanmar: A woman performs a religious ritual at the Shwedagon pagoda. Photo: Olivia Harris/Reuters.

Wars of the Roses

Yangon, Myanmar: National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at her party headquarters after the general election. Photo: Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters.

Sunshower

Yangon, Myanmar: Supporters wait in the rain for the official results from the Union Election Commission, outside the National League for Democracy Party head office. Photo: Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters.

The Lady who lived twice

• Terry Fredrickson, Myanmar vote count continues (Updated Monday), Bangkok Post, November 9, 2015

Myanmar opposition leader and head of the National League for Democracy (NLD) Aung San Suu Kyi casts her vote at a polling station in Yangon on November 8, 2015. Photo: AFP/Hein Htet.

Peafowl

• Myanmar, il trionfo di Suu Kyi: oltre il 70% nelle elezioni, la Repubblica.it, 9 novembre 2015

Aung San Suu Kyi, Chairwoman of the National League for Democracy
Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA

All along the sidelines

Demoso, Myanmar: Ethnic Kayan women wave as Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives to campaign for the upcoming general election. Aung San Suu Kyi will take her campaign straight to the camp of a close presidential ally on Thursday as she tours the country ahead of Myanmar’s first general election since the end of military rule. Photo: Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters.

Chase a Crooked Shadow

A flood-affected resident swims in floodwaters at Kyaut Ye village near the Hinthada town in Myanmar’s Irrawaddy region on August 11, 2015. Myanmar’s president called for the evacuation of low-lying areas as the Irrawaddy river threatened to breach embankments, leaving villagers with just sand-bags to hold back churning waters that have hit much of the country. Photo: AFP/Ye Aung Thu.