Yangon celebrates first water festival since capital move

Xinhua News Agency | April 13, 2006 | Copyright

Yangon celebrates first water festival since capital move

YANGON, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Yangon residents started on Thursday to celebrate Myanmar's Thingyan traditional water festival for the first time since the administrative capital moved to Naypyidaw city outside Pyinmana in November last year.

With a few dozens of beautiful young girls in colorful dresses performing traditional dances, the open-air Yangon Mayor's water- throwing pandal, which is the central and the biggest one in the city, was inaugurated in the evening with a speech by Mayor Brigadier- General Aung Thein Lin greeting ...

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