Traditional Thingyan water festival has kicked off in Myanmar’s regions and states in full swing. Yangon Region Chief Minister U Phyo Min Thein on Friday extended wishes to the people for a happy ...

It is dawn on Tuesday, the eve of Thingyan, Myanmar’s water festival that marks the new year. An anti-junta militant of the Karen National Union is starting his day, deep in the jungles of the Bago ...

Myanmar is celebrating Thingyan, a Buddhist water festival, which sees thousands of people filing the streets to call in the new year. Beginning on 13 April (in the Western calendar), the four-day ...

A decorated elephant is sprayed with water as people celebrate Myanmar's Buddhist New Year water festival, also known as Thingyan, in Yangon on April 13, 2026. - AFP YANGON: Crowds across Myanmar ...

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 ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Thingyan Festival will be held at Inle Lake, Nyaungshwe, Myanmar. As quoted from Antara, the festival will last four days, from April 13 to April 16, 2025. One of the ...

The centrepiece of the Thingyan Festival celebration at Burma Burma is the 'Village Set,' a sharing meal for two, that brings people together over a selection of delectable, traditional Burmese dishes ...

Performers dance at the opening ceremony of a water pavilion during celebrations to mark Thingyan, Myanmar's New Year water festival, in Yangon April 13, 2013. Myanmar celebrates Thingyan during the ...

People take part in celebrations of the Thingyan water festival in Yangon, Myanmar, April 13, 2024. Myanmar's vibrant Thingyan water festival kicked off on Saturday, with celebrations taking place ...