Like much else, the country’s normally raucous new year festivities have become a political battleground since the 2021 coup. Like most aspects of life in post-coup Myanmar, the traditional new year ...

Myanmar’s traditional new year celebration, known as Thingyan, takes place over four-to-five days each April, marking the shift from the old year to the new, according to the lunisolar calendar. At ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Burmese community in Hawaii is hosting a fundraiser and Myanmar New Year festival in Waikiki to help raise funds for refugees of what is considered a forgotten war.

People line up for food aid distributed in Sagaing on April 2, 2025, five days after a major earthquake struck central Myanmar. Sai Aung Main, AFP MANDALAY, Myanmar — Thousands marked the start of ...

YANGON, Myanmar -- Three bomb blasts at a holiday festival killed nine people in Myanmar's biggest city Thursday, the deadliest attack in five years in the country ruled by an iron-fisted regime. No ...

MANDALAY, Myanmar — 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 ...

YANGON/BANGKOK, (March 31, 2025) – On the morning that Myanmar’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck, 16-year-old student Yoon May* was having lunch at home in Mandalay and contemplating napping when she ...

BANGKOK (AP) — The head of Myanmar’s military government granted amnesty to nearly 4,900 prisoners to mark the country’s traditional new year, state-run media reported Thursday, and an independent ...

YANGON, Myanmar -- Three bombs ripped through traditional New Year festivities in Myanmar's biggest city of Yangon today, killing nine people and injuring 75 others, officials and state television ...

The head of Myanmar’s military government has granted amnesty to around 4,900 prisoners to mark the country's traditional new year, but it wasn’t immediately clear how many were political detainees ...