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    Tagged: festival

    Lead Story News Shan Travel & Tourism

    Stages removed after protest in Taunggyi

    Plans to build stages for viewing Taunggyi’s annual hot-air balloon contests are scrapped after local groups protest the commercialization of the event.

    Lead Story News Shan Travel & Tourism

    Commercialization of Taunggyi balloon festival opposed

    Residents of Taunggyi say that commercialization of Taunngyi’s annual hot-air balloon contests will come at the expense of local people.

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    Thadingyut: Let there be light

    Thadingyut Festival marks the end of the Buddhist Lent with offerings of candles and other displays of light.

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    Accidents Lead Story News

    Two men electrocuted at Inle pagoda festival

    Organisers of the Hpaung Daw U Pagoda Festival in Shan State said the incident would not affect the event, held annually on Inle Lake.

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    Culture Lead Story Photos

    Happy Holi days in Rangoon

    Burma’s most important holiday of the year, Thingyan, is just weeks away, but Holi, a two-day festival celebrated by the country’s more than 800,000 Hindus, has just ended. A colourful[…]

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    Security to be stepped up for water festival

    Police in Rangoon Division are gearing up for next month’s Thingyan water festival with plans to have 3,500 officers on duty at all times.

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    In photos: Thadingyut 2015, Rangoon

    Second only to Thingyan, Thadingyut is the most significant holiday in Buddhism, signifying the day that Buddha descended from the heavens.

    Culture Kachin Lead Story News

    Questioning this year’s Manau Festival

    The Kachin public opposed the plan as they felt it was inappropriate to dance the celebratory Manau in the midst of an ongoing war, while thousands of IDPs continue to languish in camps.

    Culture Kachin Lead Story News

    Manau festival will go on despite calls to cancel

    kachin officials are adamant the Manau Dance Festival will go ahead despite concerns over military tensions in the region.

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    Lead Story News Photos Society

    Burma’s New Year water festival – in pictures

    The Water Festival is in many ways a rain-dance, a way of making sacred the last drops of water for the year in the robust faith that the heavens will bestow rainwater in return. And in fact, it does seem to work.

    Culture Lead Story News

    Campaigners urge Thingyan revellers to avoid unruly behaviour, drunkenness

    Rangoon youth groups launch a campaign urging revellers celebrating the Thingyan Water Festival to avoid unruly behaviour, drunkenness and dressing inappropriately as a measure to protect Burma’s image.

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    ‘Stepping on the Knife’ festival entrances Rangoon

    Devotees parade through the streets of Mingalar Taung Nyunt Township carrying huge colourful constructions that pierce their bodies with metal spikes.

    Burmese festival highlights disabled artists video

    Lead Story Society Video

    Burmese festival highlights disabled artists

    Artists and performers who don’t often have the chance to perform on stage are in the limelight during a festival in Rangoon from 17 to 19 October.

    Burma’s traditional lanterns lose out to Chinese versions video

    Culture Features Lead Story Video

    Burma’s traditional lanterns lose out to Chinese versions

    Traditional lantern makers are going out of business as people flock to by factory-made lanterns ahead of Thadingyut festival.

    ‘Groundbreaking’ literary festival video

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    ‘Groundbreaking’ literary festival

    Burma launched its first international literary festival by Rangoon’s Inya lake over the weekend. The British ambassador to Burma, Andrew Heyn, said the event was ‘groundbreaking’ as international and local[…]

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    Three soldiers accused of rape at pagoda festival

    Jan 30, 2009 (DVB), A 16-year-old girl has reported to North Okkalapa police station that she was raped by three soldiers on the night of 20 January at the Mae[…]

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    Kachin people celebrate New Year

    Jan 12, 2009 (DVB), Kachin ethnic people from across Burma and those living in China celebrated the Kachin New Year with a festival held in the Kachin state capital of[…]

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