A decorated elephant is sprayed with water as people celebrate Myanmar's Buddhist New Year water festival, also known as Thingyan, in Yangon on April 13, 2026. - AFP YANGON: Crowds across Myanmar ...
Mid-April marked Thingyan, the traditional Burmese new year. Normally a time for energetic water throwing, leisure travel, and raves, the water festival has lost much of its cheer since the coup of ...
Dancers performing during celebrations of the Thingyan water festival in Yangon, Myanmar, on Monday, April 13, 2026. The festival, marking the start of the Myanmar New Year, usually occurs in the ...
It has been five years since the military coup in Myanmar, and revellers who had been boycotting public celebrations are starting to return to the streets to mark Thingyan, the Myanmar New Year. It is ...
As Myanmar’s military regime stages “Grand Thingyan” celebrations to manufacture a sense of normalcy, the rituals are being used to obscure ongoing violence, displacement and suffering. (Photo by ...
Five years after Myanmar’s military coup, people have begun returning to the streets for Thingyan – the country’s traditional New Year festival – after years of boycotting public celebrations. This ...
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