Ridicule is raining down on the Burmese government spin doctors who released a publicity shot of a minister in which an umbrella had been Photoshopped out.
The picture of Su Su Hlaing, the deputy minister of social welfare, relief and resettlement, getting off an aircraft was posted on the Ministry of Information's Facebook page.
But internet users almost immediately spotted a glaring mistake.
A round shadow around the minister's toes suggested that she had been standing in the shade of an umbrella but it was not to be seen in the photograph.
The Irrawaddy news website attacked the propaganda officials' "deceitful proclivities" in an article entitled "A shadow of deceit hangs over info ministry".
The website speculated that the most likely explanation for the deletion was that in "male-dominated Burmese culture" it would be embarrassing for a man to be seen shielding a mere woman with an umbrella.
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