Jan 04, 2020
HE Myanmar Motion Picture Museum (MMPM) will be opened in January inside the Myanmar Motion Picture Organization (MMPO) compound on Wingabar Street, Yangon, according to the MMPO.
Jan 04, 2020
THE Alliance of Myanmar’s Worker and Farmer Party (A.M.W.F.P) headquartered at No. 2626, Inn Win (4) Street, Nandawyar Ward, Bago in Bago Region, submitted an application for registration as a political party in accord with the Section 5 of the Political Parties Registration Law on 19-12-2019. In their application, they mention that they will use the name, the flag and the emblem as described hereunder.
Jan 04, 2020
THE size and description of the new currency notes are as follows –
Jan 04, 2020
THE Committee for Implementation of the Recommendations on Rakhine State held their 21st coordination meeting at the meeting room of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday.
Jan 04, 2020
THE final day of the 2020 New Year Dhamma ceremony took place yesterday evening at the People’s Park, near the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, with Sitagu Sayadaw Dr. Ashin Nyanissara delivering a sermon.
Among the congregation were Yangon Region Chief Minister U Phyo Min Thein and his wife, Speaker of Yangon Region Hluttaw U Tin Maung Tun, and Deputy Speaker U Lin Naing Myint, members of the Yangon Region cabinet, and departmental officials.
The last event of the three-day Dhamma ceremony attracted over 100,000 people.
Jan 03, 2020
THE third Yangon Interna-tional Gems and Jewellery Fair 2020 will take place from 10 to 13 January at the Lotte Hotel.
The jewellery fair is being organized by the Gems and Jewellery Entrepreneurs Association of Yangon, with the support of the Myanma Gems Enterprise and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Envi-ronmental Conservation.
Jan 03, 2020
THE Film Development Center will screen ‘Goodbye Dragon Inn’ film for analysis in its 33rd event of the Cinematheque Programme at its office No. 50, Shwe Taung Kyar Road (Golden Valley Road), Bahan Township, at 12 noon on 5 January.
The Taiwanese drama film was created by Director Tsai Ming-liang in 2003, and the film won several awards, including the FIPRESCI Prize at the 60th Venice International Film Festival, It was also one of the 10 greatest films of 2012 Sight & Sound Directors’ Poll.
Jan 03, 2020
A JAPANESE film crew of To-kyo Broadcasting System-TBS took the scenes of Bagan Ar-cheological Museum and Tharabar Gate in Bagan Ar-chaeological Zone and scenic Mount Popa from Popa Resort yesterday.
The crew also documented the travellers at the Shwezigon Pagoda, Htilominlo Pagoda, Su-lamani Pagoda, Ananda Pago-da and Thabyinnyu Pagoda in Bagan and the Yangon International Airport in Yangon.
On 3 and 4 January, they will shoot the Mount Popa Nats Festival and pagodas in Bagan.
Jan 03, 2020
UNION MINISTER for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Dr Win Myat Aye received cash and kind for local people in dis-aster-affected areas from the well-wishers of Myanmar com-munities in foreign countries
through Union Minister for International Cooperation U Kyaw Tin yesterday.
Jan 03, 2020
A CHINESE film crew of Hainan TV Station took the lifestyles of the people in Yan-gon near Kandawgyi Nature Park and Myitta Nyunt Railway Station on Wednesday.
They also filmed the New Year’s Eve holiday of people going on pilgrimage to the Shwedagon pagoda and cooking together and eating together Myanmar traditional foods, celebrating the event.