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Kyaw Thu honoured for funeral work
Kyaw Thu, founder of the Rangoon Free Funeral Service Society (FFSS) and formerly a renowned actor, has been awarded the 2015 Ramon Magsaysay Award.
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Famous actor charged with blasphemy
One of Burma’s most famous actors, Ye Deight, is charged with defaming religion after displaying bizarre behaviour outside a church in Rangoon. He staged a solo demonstration after being kicked[…]
Films documenting poverty to be banned
Feb 26, 2009 (DVB), Film directors in Rangoon allege that state-run Myanmar Film Production has told private producers not to make films about poverty, claiming they damage the nation's global[…]
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Actor Tun Tun Naing dies at 57
Dec 23, 2008 (DVB), Academy award-winning actor Tun Tun Naing died in the early hours of this morning at the Maha Myaing specialist hospital in Rangoon at the age of[…]
Actor-turned-monk holds religious talk in Bago
Dec 9, 2008 (DVB), Former actor Kyaw Hein, who became a Buddhist monk on 4 November, has been holding religious discussions this week in Bago, north of Rangoon, according to[…]
Actor Dwe dies of heart attack
July 12, 2007 (DVB)
