Regime green-lights muted traditional New Year celebrations, apparently reluctant to miss rare opportunity for propaganda.

The earthquake happened ahead of Myanmar’s New Year celebration, a traditional water festival known as ‘Thingyan’, which normally occurs in mid-April and is a time of festivity for four to five days, ...

YANGON (Xinhua): The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) has inscribed Myanmar traditional New Year Ata Thingyan festival on the Representative List of the ...

Hundreds of grieving Muslims gathered for Eid prayers in the street in Mandalay on Monday, the death and destruction of ...