Countries in Southeast Asia celebrate their water festivals amidst varying circumstances. While Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia enjoy their festivities, Myanmar's Thingyan is subdued due to a recent ...

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.

The Myanmar Student Association, in partnership with the Union Board, Hamilton Lugar School Living-Learning Center and the ...

Available from April 14 to May 11, 2025, this limited-edition offering celebrates Thingyan — also known as the Water Festival — with dishes designed to reflect the spirit of new beginnings.

The Thingyan festival typically celebrates Myanmar's new year with water-splashing rituals symbolising cleansing and renewal, but the central cities of Mandalay and Sagaing lie devastated from the ...

Thingyan, or Myanmar New Year festivities were subdued in Taiwan this year following the deadly 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Mandalay that killed over 3,600 people. The lively holiday marked with water ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Several Southeast Asian countries kicked off their annual water festival holiday on Sunday ... culminating on ...

Children take part in the first day of annual water festival also known as "Thingyan," in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Sunday, April 13, 2025. Credit: AP/Aung Shine Oo A few days after the quake ...

While his regime bombed civilians throughout the New Year festival, Min Aung Hlaing claimed the planned polls will be “free and fair” and he wants to solve conflicts by political means.

Children wearing face masks wait to throw water during the first day of annual traditional water festival also known as "Thingyan", in Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw ...