A novel by acclaimed local fiction writer Khin Khin Htoo is set to be made into a television series later this year.
A week before US President Barack Obama made his historic trip to Myanmar last year – to encourage the government and the people to continue on their path of openness and change – a young graffiti artist spray-painted a large mural of President Obama’s image on a wall near Yangon’s Kandawgyi Park.
Local musician Diramore is collaborating with a Japanese production company to promote Myanmar classical music internationally in the lead-up to the Southeast Asian Games, which will be held in Myanmar this December.
The Myanmar Times speaks with photographer Catherine Karnow, as the Seven Days project draws to a close.
A young punk, an historic building and a Burmese butterfly will feature in this year’s International Women’s Film Festival in South Korea.
Censorship cost the country half a century of good literature, participants in a literary gathering heard last week.
Here’s an odd couple: a Buddhist monk and a Danish journalist on a voyage of discovery, and self-discovery, in Myanmar.
Former prime minister U Khin Nyunt aims to give unknown artists broader exposure.
Cartoonist Totty Swe’s earlier works, drawn just after he quit the University of Arts and Culture in 1998, aimed to challenge the status quo by questioning governmental authority and highlighting corruption, civilian conflicts and other social ills.
Local pop act Me N Ma Girls will perform at the Music Matters Live Festival in Singapore, alongside more than 50 international bands.
