Packed into a small fishing boat, Ngun "Abawi" King Bol faced a long and gruelling journey across treacherous seas for a better life in Australia after fleeing Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. With ...

YANGON, Myanmar — With sensual choreography and provocative outfits, Myanmar’s first girl band pushes the limits of artistic acceptability in this socially conservative country. But when their parents ...

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The performance will be preceded at 7:00 pm by free pre-performance lecture. Asia Society Museum's exhibition Buddhist Art of Myanmar is also open until 9:00 pm on Friday, May 10 (free Museum ...

Released in 2000, Sa Tin Chin, or Beginning, by Acid, was Myanmar’s first hip hop album and dealt with the challenges of everyday life in the country in a way rarely touched on in other Burmese music.

American musicians have it tough, but try making it work in Myanmar. To be an artist in the isolated Southeast Asian country is to face nearly impossible barriers. The Internet is spotty, the music ...

On March 15, while much of Austin, Texas, was drowning in music and marketing and thousands of tiny bands were running the streets trying to make a dent, history was being made on a little stage at ...

YANGON, April 10 (Xinhua) -- The 2025 Myanmar New Year's Ata Thingyan Festival will be celebrated peacefully without music or dance, the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar reported on Thursday.