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Plans to build stages for viewing Taunggyi’s annual hot-air balloon contests are scrapped after local groups protest the commercialization of the event.
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Residents of Taunggyi say that commercialization of Taunngyi’s annual hot-air balloon contests will come at the expense of local people.
Thadingyut Festival marks the end of the Buddhist Lent with offerings of candles and other displays of light.
Organisers of the Hpaung Daw U Pagoda Festival in Shan State said the incident would not affect the event, held annually on Inle Lake.
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[…]
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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Second only to Thingyan, Thadingyut is the most significant holiday in Buddhism, signifying the day that Buddha descended from the heavens.
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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.
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kachin officials are adamant the Manau Dance Festival will go ahead despite concerns over military tensions in the region.
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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.
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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Devotees parade through the streets of Mingalar Taung Nyunt Township carrying huge colourful constructions that pierce their bodies with metal spikes.
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.
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Traditional lantern makers are going out of business as people flock to by factory-made lanterns ahead of Thadingyut 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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
