In Zayar Thiri Township of Nay Pyi Taw Council Area, a thousand lights offering ceremony was held at Shwe Bone Pwint Stupa on Dasaungmone full moon night. According to the junta media, the junta leader Min Aung Hlaing and his wife Kyu Kyu Hla were present on the occasion.
In Zayar Thiri Township of Nay Pyi Taw Council Area, a thousand lights offering ceremony was held at Shwe Bone Pwint Stupa on Dasaungmone full moon night. According to the junta media, the junta leader Min Aung Hlaing and his wife Kyu Kyu Hla were present on the occasion.
YANGON: At least 15 people drowned on Sunday while crossing a flooded causeway in Myanmar to reach a Buddhist temple for a festival, rescue workers said. The tragedy unfolded as thousands of worshippers tried to reach the Kyeik Hne pagoda, which lies on a rocky outcrop around three kilometres (two miles) off the coast near the town of Thanbyuzayat in.
In predawn darkness in western Myanmar thousands of devotees scramble to the top of a mountain said to be home to a spirit guarding 500 mythical ducks to mark the Tazaungdaing festival of light.
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