Water Festival

A woman crosses an empty street during the Myanmar's New Year water festival, locally known as Thingyan, in Yangon on April 13, 2023. Photo: AFP
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20 April 2023
How Myanmar Water Festival rebuff shows loss of junta support base
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10 March 2023
Junta plans Water Festival Pavilions in Yangon...
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06 April 2022
Local defense forces will target Thingyan stages...
Mandalay-based people’s defence forces (PDFs) warned people not to attend Thingyan water...
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22 March 2022
Junta forcing business owners to take part in...
The military junta summoned business owners in Mandalay and pressured them to take part...
A general view shows an empty street and barricades by Sule pagoda on the second day of Thingyan, the water festival which marks the country's new year, in Yangon on April 14, 2021, as a sweeping crackdown continues by security forces on demonstrations against the military coup. Photo: Ye Thu Aung/AFP
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16 April 2021
A quiet Thingyan
The main boulevards of commercial hub Yangon were empty Thursday -- a far cry from the...
A general view shows an empty street on the first day of Myanmar's New Year water festival, also known as Thingyan, in Yangon on April 12, 2020, amid restrictions put in place to halt the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
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13 April 2020
Silent streets for water festival in Myanmar...
Myanmar’s New Year festival of Thingyan is the country’s biggest public holiday --...
Myanmar's annual water festival. Photo: Mizzima
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17 March 2020
Thingyan festivities cancelled
Myanmar’s government has stepped up preventive measures in confronting the coronavirus...
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19 April 2019
YGH receives 914 emergency ward patients and six...
Yangon General Hospital (YGH) Medical Superintendent (MS) Dr. Khin Theingi Myint said on...
Military personnel sued with 66D to four young leaders "Mr. Zayyar Lwin, Mr.Paing Ye Thu, Ms. Su Yadanar Myint & Mr. Paing Phyo Min" who led Thingyan youth-led Thangyat (satirical slogan chanting) group for political wordplay performance. Photo: Thinzar Shunlei Yi/Twitter
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19 April 2019
Myanmar authorities should drop charges against...
Myanmar authorities should drop charges against four performers for criticizing the...
Water Festival began in Yangon on April 13, 2019. Photo: Thura/Mizzima
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13 April 2019
US government offers best wishes for the Thingyan...
The US government has sent a message to mark the Myanmar Thingyan Festival that has begun...