2 days ago · YANGON: Chinese New Year is a vibrant and highly anticipated event in Myanmar, with Myanmar-born Chinese families across the country actively upholding their traditions. Wai Wai Tun, 30, a ...

Thingyan, also known as the Myanmar New Year, is a festival that usually occurs in middle of April. Celebrated over a period of four to five days, Thingyan culminates in the New Year. The dates of Thingyan are calculated according to the Burmese calendar.

1 day ago · Elsewhere in the world, processions with colorful dragon figures wove through the air at Lunar New Year events in Moscow and Havana, while people in the Indian city of Kolkata — home to an ethnic Chinese community — gathered in restaurants to celebrate the Year of the Snake. ... Myanmar, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

2 days ago · Thein Zaw. Chinese artists leap from pedestals as they perform a traditional lion dance marking the Lunar New Year of the Snake in the Chinatown area of Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025.

2 days ago · Lunar New Year traditions vary across and within countries, but similar threads run throughout: family time, rituals for prosperity and to honor ancestors, and marathon feasts. ... Myanmar, on Sunday.

2 days ago · Candles were lit at a Chinese temple in Yangon, Myanmar. Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP. ... Vietnam, where the Lunar New Year celebrations are known as Tet. Lunar New Year. Asia. Photography.

5 days ago · Drums, cymbals and the noise of an enthralled crowd gave a cacophonous welcome to the Lunar New Year in Myanmar’s commercial capital on Sunday. Video. Lion dancers and drummers welcome the Lunar New Year in Myanmar.

5 days ago · Marking the start of the lunar calendar, it typically falls between late January and mid-February. Festivities span 15 days and involve family reunions, feasts, and rituals to bring good fortune. Over time, the festival evolved into a time for honoring ancestors, welcoming the new year with hope, and strengthening familial bonds.

What Christmas is in western countries and Lunar New Year is to China, ‘Thingyan’ is to Myanmar and Myanmar communities worldwide. A vibrant, joyous, social, and culturally symbolic occasion, the Myanmar New Year represents new beginnings, hope, community spirit and prosperity.

Jan 22, 2023 · The event ended with overseas Chinese representatives singing a song of China-Myanmar friendship. Myanmar's State Administration Council Chairman Min Aung Hlaing (L, front) and Chinese Ambassador to Myanmar Chen Hai (R, front) attend a Chinese New Year celebration in Yangon, Myanmar, Jan. 21, 2023. (Photo by Myo Kyaw Soe/Xinhua)