April 12, 2006—For Burmese, part of the aim of Thingyan, a five-day water festival that commemorates the coming of the New Year, is to cool down during the hottest time of the year and celebrate their cultural and religious heritage.
March 23, 2006—Video clips and pictures of the funeral in Rangoon on Sunday of Thet Naing Oo have sent shock waves through anti-regime communities of Burmese living overseas.
November 25, 2005—Every country has its “national day,” which usually designates the date on which a people achieved independence and became a nation, or which marks some other important threshold crossed in a nation’s history.
