Also this week, the regime chief greeted Thingyan with a poll push and more airstrikes, and met with Malaysia’s PM, and began ...

While his regime bombed civilians throughout the New Year festival, Min Aung Hlaing claimed the planned polls will be “free ...

Countries in Southeast Asia celebrate their water festivals amidst varying circumstances. While Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia enjoy their festivities, Myanmar's Thingyan is subdued due to a recent ...

The Myanmar Student Association, in partnership with the Union Board, Hamilton Lugar School Living-Learning Center and the ...

Thingyan, or Myanmar New Year festivities were subdued in Taiwan this year following the deadly 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Mandalay that killed over 3,600 people. The lively holiday marked with water ...

YANGON, April 10 (Xinhua) -- The 2025 Myanmar New Year's Ata Thingyan Festival will be celebrated peacefully without music or dance, the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar reported on Thursday.

As Myanmar begins the Thingyan New Year festivities this weekend, the UN raised a call for the military to announce a full amnesty for detainees it has incarcerated since the February 2021 coup, ...

The Myanmar Overseas Chinese Association’s annual Thingyan festival in New Taipei City yesterday replaced traditional water-dousing celebrations with prayers and a fundraising campaign for those ...

Children wearing face masks wait to throw water during the first day of annual traditional water festival also known as "Thingyan", in Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw ...

Thousands marked the start of Myanmar's water festival on Sunday in the ruins of last month's earthquake, with the country's most raucous holiday muted by the tragedy of the tremor. The "Thingyan ...

The Thingyan festival typically celebrates Myanmar's new year with water-splashing rituals symbolising cleansing and renewal, but the central cities of Mandalay and Sagaing lie devastated from the ...