Women work on a Buddha sculpture near Mahamuni Buddhist temple in Mandalay October 6, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





Buddhist novice nuns wait for transportation in Mandalay October 5, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





Buddhist monks walk inside the Masoyein monastery complex in Mandalay October 7, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





A Buddhist novice nun waits for transportation in Mandalay October 5, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





Buddhist monks eat breakfast outside a monastery in Mandalay October 7, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





Buddhist novice nuns wait for transportation in Mandalay October 5, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





Buddhist monks attend lessons at the Masoyein monastery complex in Mandalay October 5, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





Women work on Buddha sculptures near Mahamuni Buddhist temple in Mandalay October 6, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





A Buddhist monk sleeps after morning prayers at the Masoyein monastery complex in Mandalay October 7, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





Buddhist monks walk with their alms bowls early morning outside the Masoyein monastery complex in Mandalay October 7, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





A Buddhist novice nun poses for a portrait in Mandalay October 5, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





A man works on Buddha statues near Mahamuni Buddhist temple in Mandalay October 6, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





A youth wears a Myanmar national soccer team T-shirt while rowing a boat on Tuangthaman Lake in Mandalay October 6, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





Buddhist monks bathe at the Masoyein monastery complex in Mandalay October 5, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





Buddhist monks rest at their dormitory which is decorated with a portrait of firebrand monk Wirathu inside the Masoyein monastery complex in Mandalay October 7, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





A Buddhist monk walks past anti-Muslim billboards inside the Masoyein monastery complex in Mandalay October 7, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





Buddhist monks walk inside the Masoyein monastery complex in Mandalay October 7, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





Men gather to pray inside Mahamuni Buddhist temple in Mandalay October 6, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





A Buddhist monk checks his mobile phone at the Masoyein monastery complex in Mandalay October 5, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





Men gather to pray inside Mahamuni Buddhist temple in Mandalay October 6, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





A Buddhist monk walks over a bridge near the Masoyein monastery complex in Mandalay October 7, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





A Buddhist monk walks with his alms bowl early morning in Mandalay October 7, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





Ferrymen wait to take passengers across the river in Yangon, Myanmar, November 3, 2015. (Photo by Olivia Harris/Reuters)





A woman arrives at her home carrying flowers on the outskirts of Yangon November 4, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





People walk past a campaign billboard of Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD party in Yangon November 4, 2015. Myanmar on November 8 is holding its first free and fair election in 25 years in which democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is pitted against the ruling party comprised of former members of a military junta. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





People walk by a construction site of new apartment buildings in Yangon November 4, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





A woman stands while working in a brick factory at the outskirts of Yangon November 4, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





A woman stands at the door of her bamboo shack at the outskirts of Yangon November 4, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





Girls walk to school at the outskirts of Yangon November 4, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





People work in a brick factory at the outskirts of Yangon November 4, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





People work in a brick factory at the outskirts of Yangon November 4, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





People work in a brick factory at the outskirts of Yangon November 4, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





A woman collects harvest on a field in Kanyuntkwin, Myanmar, November 4, 2015. (Photo by Olivia Harris/Reuters)





People buy t-shirts and stickers at the National League for Democracy headquarters ahead of Sunday's general election in Yangon, Myanmar, November 5, 2015. Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday she would be "above the president" if her party wins a historic election on Nov. 8, defying a constitutional ban on becoming head of state herself. The general election is the first since a quasi-civilian government took power in 2011 after nearly 50 years of a military dictatorship, and is widely regarded as a referendum on Myanmar's reform process. (Photo by Olivia Harris/Reuters)





A man sells Aung San Suu Kyi calendars ahead of Sunday's general election in Yangon, Myanmar, November 5, 2015. (Photo by Olivia Harris/Reuters)





Supporters dance during a National League for Democracy (NLD) party campaign rally in Yangon November 5, 2015. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)





A fisherman throws a net to catch fish in the shallow waters of Ngapali beach in Myanmar's western Rakhine State at dusk, Thursday, October 15, 2015. (Photo by Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP Photo)





A Myanmar girl transports a bag of sand on her head as she works at a construction site near the bank of the Irrawaddy River in Mandalay, Myanmar, 07 October 2015. The World Bank forecasts Myanmar economy growth rate would slow down 6.5 percent caused by nationwide floods, investments and country's political challenges ahead of general election despite it first predicted as 8.2 percent to growth in this fiscal year 2015-2016. (Photo by Hein Htet/EPA)





Two novice Buddhist monks walk alongside a basket seller to collect alms following a clerics rule of no footwear nor use of umbrellas in Mandalay, Myanmar, Friday, October 9, 2015. (Photo by Hkun Lat/AP Photo)





Labours work on electric power poles to modify and maintain the high voltage power cables in Mandalay, Myanmar, 17 October 2015. (Photo by Hein Htet/EPA)





A herder walks with cows on a Naypyitaw highway, in the capital Naypytaw, Myanmar, Sunday, October 18, 2015.(Photo by Aung Shine Oo/AP Photo)





Commuters prepare to board ferry boats across the Yangon river in Yangon, Myanmar, Wednesday, November 4, 2015. (Photo by Mark Baker/AP Photo)





Children of street venders eat a roadside meal as street dogs walk around Yangon, Myanmar, Wednesday, November 4, 2015. (Photo by Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP Photo)





Myanmar’s specially recruited police officer for election duties checks his mobile phone during a break of training in Mandalay, Myanmar, Wednesday, October 21, 2015. Myanmar temporally recruited 40,000 new officers for the upcoming election duties schedule for November 8. (Photo by Hkun Lat/AP Photo)