The ongoing MEMORY! Festival features screenings of foreign and local films—including the classic ‘Mhone Shwe Yi’—at Yangon’s Waziya Cinema and Mahabandoola Park.
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The seventh MEMORY! Film Festival in Yangon aims to inspire cinema lovers and filmmakers with the theme ‘Life Together’.
On this day in 1954, Myanmar secured a pledge from Japan to pay reparations for violence and damage caused to the country under Japanese occupation during World War II.
The painter Khit Bhone Mo passed away less than two weeks before his exhibition ‘Saffron’ opened at Yangon Book Plaza this month.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi presents democracy as a moral value, author Michal Lubina argues in his analysis of the State Counselor’s political thought.
Local music, Turkish food by chefs straight from Istanbul, a performance art film and farmers and makers markets are all on in Yangon this week.
In a bid to boost Yangon’s reputation as an art hub, a major auction has showcased the work of Myanmar’s artists.
‘Leonardo Da Vinci: Opera Omnia’ exhibition in Yangon to display HD digital reproductions of 17 masterpieces by the Renaissance artist to mark 500 years since his death.
On this day in 1942, renowned Myanmar traditional folk musician Sein Beda died of throat cancer.
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