Photographs of Aung San Suu Kyi on sale on the streets of Rangoon. The Today programme's Mike Thomson visited the country just before the recent by-elections.
Suu Kyi, who leads the National League for Democracy (NLD), was released in November 2010 after almost fifteen years under house arrest. .
A man openly selling Suu Kyi t-shirts. "We can't print enough of the," says one street vendor. The NLD is widely believed to have won the country's 1990's parliamentary election.
A colourful film poster. Burma - now called Myammar by its government - had been ruled by the military since 1962.
Election fever embraced the NLD's headquarters and in the run-up to the recent parliamentary by-elections.
Mike Thomson reporting from NLD headquarters. The party won 44 of the 45 seats in the election, the first test of just how far down the road to democracy Burma has travelled.
A group of Suu Kyi supporters enjoying a musical dinner in Rangoon. The city has seen a mini-economic boom since the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, visited the country in January but there is still popular unease about its rulers' intentions.
Despite impressive sights like this pagoda, Rangoon is still subjected to regular power and water cuts. Britain's ambassador Andrew Heyn welcomes Burma's new openness but believes that "much remains to be done".
Pirate copies of The Lady, a film biography of Aung Suu Kyi, are on sale throughout Rangoon. Until recently, those selling them would have been arrested.
Photographers jostle at a media award ceremony. Suu Kyi's televised election broadcast was seen throughout Burma. The president's political adviser told Mike that "our transition is top-down... Everything is changing in our country".
The Rangoon skyline at dusk. This once secretive and isolated country is opening up and tourists are gradually returning.
The NDL's co-founder U Win Tin is optimisitic about the country's future. "Now we see light at the end of the tunnel", he says. And he calls the new elections a "harbinger of new days".
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