A new Myanmar-language book titled Daughter Aung San and My Memoir was written by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s former cook U Moe Linn.
Award-winning comedian U Mos passed away in Yangon on February 13, succumbing to a year-long battle against cirrhosis of the liver.
The final round of the Miss Myanmar International 2013 competition will be held at the Myanmar Convention Center in Yangon.
Members of popular Japanese girl band Berryz Koubou will perform in Yangon, as part of the second Japan Festival in Myanmar.
Local movie director U Tin Yu passed away in Yangon on February 5 at the age of 92. He was best known for directing the classic 1978 film Nan Twin Ayay Taw Pone (Royal Campaign).
Last month I embarked on an obsessive quest to watch every feature-length movie directed by German filmmaker Werner Herzog, in chronological order, from his 1967 debut Signs of Life up to the present.
No matter what you call it — street art, urban art, graffiti, painting, bombing, tagging — the use of spray paint and stencils on city streets all over Asia gains ground and legitimacy with every one of its artists practicing today.
Under normal circumstances, the empty furniture factory just off a hectic main street in Yangon’s Hlaing township would seem insignificant.
For the first 26 years of her life, China-born author Jung Chang faced a seemingly insurmountable number of obstacles to fulfilling her dream of becoming a writer.
With Yangon’s first literary festival still fresh in our collective minds and the press censorship board officially disbanded at the end of January, it seems like as good a time as any to examine the changing face of poetry in Myanmar, which several writers say is taking a turn toward the international and the avant-garde.
