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 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.
Jan 03, 2020
GEMS and jades are on sale for local merchants in Myanmar kyat during the six-day emporium at Mani Yadana Jade Hall in Nay Pyi Taw from 2 to 7 January.
Union Minister for Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation U Ohn Win, Deputy Minister Dr Ye Myint Swe and officials visited the emporium yesterday morning, and looked around the display of gems and jade lots.
The emporium will sell 286 lots of gems in open tender system on 4 January, and a total of 3,695 jade lots from 5 to 7 January in the same system.
Jan 02, 2020
CHAUNGU Township supplies 40 trucks of muskmelons to the Muse market every day, stated U Soe Lwin, chairperson of Sagaing Region Watermelon, Muskmelon Growers and Producers Association.
Last year, muskmelon growers faced losses due to the low price. The price rose slightly in the second week of December 2019.
Jan 01, 2020
UNION Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Dr Win Myat Aye and Deputy Minister U Soe Aung visited Myat Su Mon Youth Sanctuary at the Dhamma Lingaya Monastery in Pyinmana Township, Nay Pyi Taw Council Area, yesterday and donated offertories to the presiding Sayadaw and other donations for the sanctuary.
The donation included K500,000 in cash, K5.94 million for purchasing rice for the 110 children there, K10.23 million for food and clothing, K360,000 as assistance to the sanctuary keeper, and school uniforms and T-shirts.
Jan 01, 2020
PILGRIMS, domestic and foreign travellers and local residents of Mandalay filled up the compounds of its numerous pagodas and ancient cultural sites during the New Year holiday.
In particular, Mahamuni Buddha Image, Kyauktawgyi, Shwekyee Myin Pagoda, Kuthodaw Pagoda and Aungtawmu Pagoda were thronging with visitors in the early hours of the morning.
Visitors then took a trip to Shwekyaunggyi, the palace and Inwa area in the afternoon before heading to the famous U Bein bridge and Mandalay Hill to watch the sunset later in the evening.
Jan 01, 2020
“Appamadena Sampadetha” which encompasses all three genres of Buddhist scriptures or Tipataka.
The Buddha delivered this message twice a day. Its precise meaning is “to be mindful of world and life’. In fact, mindfulness is a gatekeeper of physical and mental actions. Anyone who can control oneself with mindfulness is a real victor.