Mid-April marked Thingyan, the traditional Burmese new year. Normally a time for energetic water throwing, leisure travel, and raves, the water festival has lost much of its cheer since the coup of ...

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 ...

YANGON: Myanmar authorities are preparing to organise the unique floating Thingyan festival on Inle Lake in Nyaungshwe township of Shan state, a local official said on Friday (March 14). "We are now ...

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 ...

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’s military regime stages “Grand Thingyan” celebrations to manufacture a sense of normalcy, the rituals are being used to obscure ongoing violence, displacement and suffering. (Photo by ...