The 46-year-old Thant Myint-U is the natural candidate to save Yangon's cosmopolitan past.
"She has tremendous political power, " Myint said about his friend of two decades.
It could be that Myanmar's generals are feeling overly confident after the election, an issue Myint said is a priority on Suu Kyi's agenda.
Mosque member Soe Myint said most of the children were sleeping on the ground floor when the blaze began and they were able to flee.
Religious Affairs Minister Myint Maung told a delegation of senior monks that the police regretted the injuries, which he blamed on the "incompetency" of the authorities.
At the University of Yangon, Ni Ni Myint, director of the Historical Research Center, gazes across the sun-dappled lawns and tree-lined lanes of the busy campus.
Mosque member Soe Myint said most of the children were sleeping on the ground floor when the blaze began and they were able to flee to safety.
At Myint Soe's garment factory on the outskirts of Rangoon, rows of women hunch over sewing machines and irons under neon lights, pressing, folding, hemming, in stifling heat.
Mandalay Advocate General Ye Aung Myint confirmed the sentences.
Asked why only Muslims have faced trial in Meikhtila, Ye Aung Myint, the advocate general, said the courts were starting with the initial incidents that triggered the violence, and those involved in later incidents would be tried subsequently.
Yangon Division Chief Minister Myint Swe, who said a commission would fully investigate the fire, also told reporters late Tuesday that police discovered a container of diesel fuel underneath a staircase that he said had helped fuel the blaze.
WSJ: Mosque Fire Kills 13 Children in Myanmar, Fueling Suspicions
Those sentenced Tuesday included four men and a minor convicted of the murder of a Buddhist monk and two men convicted of illegal association and public mischief, said Ye Aung Myint, advocate general of the Mandalay region that includes the town.
The winner among undergraduate inventors was a team of four students at Johns Hopkins University, Leslie Myint, Daniel Peng, Andy Tu, and Stephen van Kooten, for FastStich, a breakthrough handheld machine for sewing sutures in abdominal surgery both faster and more safely than traditional methods allow.
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