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Myanmar Junta Pushes Ahead With Thingyan Festival as Quake Toll Soars
Regime green-lights muted traditional New Year celebrations, apparently reluctant to miss rare opportunity for propaganda.
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Unesco inscribes Myanmar's Thingyan festival on intangible cultural heritage list
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 ...
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Myanmar bids to put traditional thanakha face powder on UN heritage list to boost cultural profile
If recognition is achieved, thanakha will become Myanmar's second intangible cultural heritage to be recognized by UNESCO, after its traditional water festival of Thingyan was added last December.
‘It Was Terrifying’ - Children Prepare To Spend Myanmar New Year Festival In Shelters Following Earthquake
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, ...
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Myanmar bids to put traditional thanakha face powder on U.N. heritage list to boost cultural profile
If recognition is achieved, thanakha will become Myanmar’s second intangible cultural heritage to be recognized by UNESCO, after its traditional water festival of Thingyan was added last December.