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The elections are here! Myanmar citizens will be heading to the ballot

boxes this month to vote! A historic event in the country and it is a

privilege to be here at this time.

Aside from the elections this month contains Tazaungdaing, another

of Myanmar’s light festivals. In Yangon the highlight will be the

robe weaving competitions at Shwedagon Pagoda. However, the

most captivating celebrations occur in Taunggyi where they hold a

magnificent fire balloon festival.

This issue accidentally contains a lot of interviews! And while it is a

shame to lose some of the long prose of previous issues, it is nice to

hear about Yangon directly from the people who live here. Indeed, this

month everyone will have a voice.

Features Election specialYour guide to Yangon. Get ready for Myan-mar's election, discover how to vote, how to prepare and more...

contents

06 street style

10 We Love Township

08 Plot Ahead

12 daily Life: Nat Kadaw

14 Escape to

18 Kids

20 Trends

22 Best of

24 Business

42 Art

40 shopping

32 Meet

38 Health & Beauty

45 dining

52 Night Life

26 Property

To FinD oUT More

ViSiT The Yangon DireCTorY WebSiTe

@ WWW.YangonDireCTorY.CoM/MYYangon

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Enchantment Myanmar Cultural Show

6:30pm – 8:30pmutopia Tower

dim sum Lunch a La Carte Buffet (daily)

Chatrium Hotel, 40,natmauk Road,

Tamwe Township

Myanmar international Food-tech industry Exhibition

(Myanmar-Foodtech)Myanmar Event Park,

Shin Saw Pu Road

Monday Blue night 9:30pm

Mojo bar, inya Road,Bahan Township

Buffet dinner6pm - 9pm

Karaweik Palace, Mingalar Taung nyunt Township

Tuesday Snippets 7pm – 10pm

Pansodan gallery,Pansodan Street

Piano night 9pm

Thiri pyitsayar Sky Bistro, 20th floor, Sakura Tower

Communicate MyanmarMyanmar Convention Center,

Mindamma Road, Mayangone Township

Wine Tuesdays5pm

Mojo Bar, inya road,Bahan Township

girls night OutMojo Bar, inya Road

diwali day

Happy Hour 4pm - 7pm

Rangoon Tea House

Robe Weaving ContestShwedagon,

Botahtaung Pagoda

Open House for international Studies Program

10 am – 2 pmCOnnECT institute,

3a Pansodan Business Tower

Martini time! 7pm

Mojo Bar, inya Road,Bahan Township

aaPg Myanmar geosciences Conference

Tatmadaw Hall, u Wisara Rd, dagon Township

Tazaungdaing lighting festivalThrough-out the Country

Candle Light EventKoe-Htat-gyi Pagoda

Myanmar Fair For Hardware & Building Material

(05-08 nov 2015)Myanmar Event Park, Shin Saw Pu Road, Sanchaung Township

Wine Charcuterie night5pm

The Strand Bar

nightly Live Music(Every Friday)

6pm - 11pmKokie Bar & Restaurant,

Bahan Township

Foodtec Myanmar '15Myanmar Event Park, Ms. aye

Tel: +95-1- 254765 Email: [email protected]

Website: www.foodtecasia.com

next month get ready to explore with our travel issue . . .


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B2O Bar and Bistro, no.98, 20 Street, Latha Township

Saturday night Live (Every Saturday)

7pmnovotel Yangon Max- 459 Pyay

Road, Kamayut Township

8th Offshore Technology asia 2015 (OTa)

26-27 nov 2015Summit Parkview Hotel, ahlon

Rd, ahlone Township

Enterprise india Show (29 Oct-01 nov 2015)

Tatmadaw Exhibition Hall

Election day

Sunday Branch11:30am - 2:30pm

inya Lake Hotel,Orchid Resturant

Sunday Brunchacacia Tea Saloon,

Sayar San Road

Sunday Brunch12pm - 3pm

The Square Restaurantnovotel Hotel Max

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thIngangYunWe Love

Thingangyun Township is located on the eastern side of Yangon and is cirlcled on its eastern edge by Panzundaung Creek. it is a middle class township with many government staff living within it and lots of apartment blocks, education centres and schools. it is also Yangon’s most sporty township with the huge Thuwana football stadium and grounds being the training ground for many of Myanmar’s sports federations as well as a recreational playground for sport lovers.

Eat

Yin Fong Seafood

One of the best Chinese style fresh seafood restaurants in Yangon, the best dishes are red snapper and king prawns. The location is spacious with lake view tables at the back of the restaurant. The buffet breakfast costs 3000 Kyats and lunch costs 6000 Kyats.

7:00 am - 10:00 pmNo. 53/54, Lay Daungkan Road, Near AKK

Shopping Mall, 01 706021

Mr. Chief Mr. Chief is a popular and well-liked restaurant with many branches. The Thingangyun location is their 4th branch in Yangon and is well decorated. They serve Korean, Hot Pot, Chinese and snacks.

AKK Shopping Mall (basement), Lay Daungkan Road. 01 566080 (Ext. 156)

diY Hot Pot & BBQ A favourite Myanmar celebrity hangout which is a cool place to drop by and see if you can spot one of Myanmar’s famous people.

No (95/F), Waizayatar Street (3) quarter, ThinganGyun, 09 258 200 088

YKKO

The Thingangyun branch of YKKO is one of the chains most frequented restaurants. They serve all the YKKO classics such as kyay-oh, BBQ, seafood and ice cream.

10:00 am to 10 pmNo.A-1-001, Zawtika Housing, Lay Daungkan

Road, Junction Zawana. 01 573 505 Ext: 216, 09 865 085 0

El dorado Bakehouse

The flagship store of this bakehouse chain, El

Win Win Htwe

Dorado, is a grab and go style bakery that offers specially made birthday cakes.

No.4, Wai Za Yan Dar Road, 01 573 852, 01 573 818, 01 573 838

Food Talk

This restaurant serves a funky mix of Chinese, Japanese and Western style dishes. A little bit schizophrenic but, if you’re up for a culinary whirlwind of choices and flavours, this is the place!

AKK shopping mall, Basement, Lay Daungkan Road

09 254 441 26, 09 420 065 788, 09 421 131 182

Rangon grill & Chill Barbecue Restaurant

This shop offers delicious grilled and barbecued food. It is an awesome place for BBQ and has a variety of seafood, chicken, pork, beef and vegetables as well as a choice of desserts including


Neigh-bour-hood

Neigh-bour-hood

Thuwana StadiumThuwunna Stadium is home to many of Myanmar’s youth sports training programmes. it is also the venue for many of the Myanmar men’s international football games. The stadium's eight-lane track is the first in Myanmar that meets the international (iaaF) standards. Thuwunna national indoor Stadium, located next to the outdoor stadium, is

the country's primary venue for indoor sports.

Thuwanna, 09 250 190 319

ice cream. The best things for the customer are the service, including car parking, and the good quality of food. Every Thursday, they add crab as a special item on their buffet menu.

2/25, Lay Daungkan Street, Thu Mingalar Housing (near Zawana)

09 252 538 352, 09 252 653 011

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Junction zawana Shopping Centre

Housed in a large three storey building, it has a small area for car parking in front of the Supermarket. As the place is neat and tidy, it’s comfortable for customers to look around the place slowly and steadily. Their City Mart on the ground floor has frozen meat, fruits and vegetables that are hygienic and good for health.

Lay Daungkan Road, Zawana Tower 01 573 929,01 573 930, 01 573 931, 01 573 932

aKK Shopping Centre

This is a newly opened shopping mall in Thingangyun located close to Junction Zawana Shopping Centre. This shopping centre includes a City Mart, fashion shops, restaurants and beauty salons. Every Thadingyut festival and Tazaungdaing festival there are special promotions on specific products.

Lay Daungkan Road, Zawana Tower01 855 148 3

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St. Joseph’s Church

A land mark of Thingangyun Township, St. Joseph’s Church was built in 1934 when the growing Roman Catholic community in Thingangyun felt that they needed a small church and elementary school. The new church, St. Joseph’s, was built on the land of the old St. Anthony’s Church.

Daily Masses 6am (Myan.& Eng. alternative),

5pm(Myan. only Wed. 1st Fri.)Sunday Masses

6:30am (Eng.), 8:30am(Myan.), 4:30pm (Tamil)No. 1-3, Thiri Marlar Street, B-Block

dagum Movie Theater

You can release your stress and tension by watching movies at Dagum Theater.

Maha Myaing Street, 01 565 800

galaxy go Kart Track/ Ruby Land Car Racing

Commonly referred to with its old name of Galaxy Go Kart Track, Ruby Land Car Racing, is a small

but highly entertaining go kart track. Wai Za Yan Dar Road, Top Ruby Land Car

Racing Compound, Arkar Street F, 09 421 064 776

Kyaikkasan Pagoda

Kyaikkasan Pagoda is the main attraction in Thingangyun Township. Reputed to have been built by Sihadipa, the King of Tha Ton, this gilded pagoda is an interesting religious site because it enshrines 16 hairs and 32 bone relics of the Buddha.

Kyaikkasan Pagoda Road

BArs & CLUBs

Café liberal-new Entertainment Studio

A popular coffee house with a bar and club. One for night owls.

Wai Za Yan Dar Road, Top Ruby Land Car Racing Compound, Arkar Street F

stay

Royal Ruby Hotel

Royal Ruby Hotel offers numerous on-site facilities to satisfy even the most discerning guest and the hotel can suggest host of recreational activities to ensure you have plenty to do during your stay.

No. 12, Khaymarthi Street, Michaungkan Block 3

01 573 264, 01 573 309

Hotel Captain

3 min walk from Wai Za Yan Dar Shopping Mall.No112 , Yeik Thar 4th Street , Wai Za Yan Dar

Garden, Mikyaungkan 1, 01 221 572

goal Hotel

Located Near Thuwana Football Stadium.National Football Training Center,

Wai Za Yan Dar Road


ExplorE Yangon


Hla Phone Aung

interview with a nat Kadaw

(A Myanmar spirit Medium)

Myanmar has a long tradition in the belief of nats (spirits). There are 37 great nats who were human beings who died a shocking or violent death, as well as a host of lesser nats who inhabit trees, lakes, villages, the home and even a personal guardian spirit called a Kosaungnat. each home and village often has a shrine to their particular nat or one of the 37 great nats, which is decorated with offerings of food and coconuts.

At specific times during the year ceremonies are performed called ‘Nat pwe’ in which a Nat Kadaw (spirit medium) will channel the nat spirits and invoke them to bestow blessings or messages. Ceremonies are often performed by several Nat Kadaws and some are sponsored privately; in order to bestow good fortune on the individual.

Ceremonies start by paying homage to the spirits with an offering of a bowl containing a green

coconut complete with stem, and three hands of bananas. The rituals which follow are somewhat similar to folk theatre, with wild music and dancing, frantic drinking and smoking, and multiple costume changes. They also often include the acting out of tragic love stories. One of the most striking features for an outside observer is that when the Nat Kadaws invoke nat spirits they will act and dress according to that spirit - even if the nat spirit is a different sex.

How many years have you been a spirit

medium?

I joined the world of spirit mediums in 1961.

is this professional or amateur?

Oh! Professional, I worked in government service in the Ministry of Construction. I retired, and now I work professionally as a spirit medium. I am also fond of this job. Because the life of a spirit medium is very interesting to me and I earn more money than government staff.

How often do you go to TaungPyone spirit

festival?

I go every year, because they have a list of attendance and if you are absent once, you are dismissed from being spirit medium.

How many days do you celebrate one

spirit ceremony?

At least 3 days per spirit ceremony. It’s held each day from morning 6am to evening 6pm.

How much money do you earn for one

spirit ceremony?

I earn 2,500,000 Kyats per ceremony, but net I get 500,000 Kyats, because I have to give 150,000 Kyats to the orchestra per day, pay for preparation of the ceremony area and as well as other costs.

How many kinds of spirit medium are

there?

There are many kinds of spirit medium. Some are eager to dance, some are eager to sing, and some are eager to recite spirit songs. And each medium is under a different teacher. So principals and disciplines are a little different.

How often do you celebrate a spirit

ceremony?

It’s held by condition. When some people pass an exam, earn a lot of money, or get a good job they hold a spirit celebration.

What do you think about worshiping

spirits?

We are not worshiping, we offer oblations to propitiate them. We respect them and we keep up the traditional habit. Actually, we are the representatives of spirits. So we are called spirit mediums.

Interview with a Nat Kadaw . . .

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Escape toFLOATiNg ON THE AYEYAWAddYON THE rV KiNdAT PANdAW

ExplorE Yangon

Hla Phone Aung & Sithu Phyo

Everyone Myanmar loves Ayeyawaddy. The Ayeyawaddy is Myanmar‘s mother and has born a lot of cities, social life, periods, and history along its run.

“Everyone in Myanmar knows the Ayeyawaddy. When we talk about Myanmar we always mention the Ayeyawaddy and the old cities along its bank . i think the Ayeyawaddy is a very faithful river. it never goes outside Myanmar. Although it's a long river, it never betrays Myanmar." retired American professor dr.Kenneth of Woodbury University, who is very interested in Myanmar, is sitting in the cane chair at the ship’s bow.

“That’s why you chose to sail on the Ayeyawaddy River Sir”

“Absolutely right, I have been in Myanmar twice; I have seen the Ayeyawaddy from banks of Bagan, Mandalay etc. Later I read about the Ayeyawaddy and I became more interested in it. So I chose to take this journey.”

And our vessel, the RV KINDAT PANDAW, goes well with Ayeyawaddy River.

Our two editors departed from Yangon to Bagan, and then traveled from Bagan to Mandalay upstream along the Ayeyawaddy on board the RV KINDAT PANDAW.

The RV KINDAT PANDAW, a mahogany coloured colonial style teak ship, was moored on the Bagan-Ayeya bank, not so far from Bu Phaya.

On the gangplank we were greeted by the food & beverages manager, Ko Bo Bo Kyaw. We checked in on board and all of crew warmly welcomed us.

“Your cabin is upstairs, Sir”, guided Ko Myint Naing, who was part of the housekeeping staff.

We went upstairs stairs via the middle of the ship and first we saw a magnificent dining room. Over the coming days, we had breakfast, lunch and dinner in this open air room, getting fresh air from the river.

Our cabin number is 206, and a double bed room. We opened a teak collapsible door, we saw another glass door. We opened it, and saw the beds covered with clean white bed sheets in a neat and tidy room.

“We have sightseeing in Bagan tomorrow morning, 8:30, Sir” informed Ko Myint Naing.

“Today, two journalists, U Hla Phone Aung & Ko Si Thu Phyo, from MY Yangon joining us on our trip” declared Tour Operation Manager, Ko Thiha Aung, on the Sightseeing Limousine Bus. All the passengers clapped their hands. Most of them were aged between 60 and 85. They were sociable and very kind.

Our Limousine Bus drove slowly into old Bagan which Ko Thiha Aung explained thoroughly to his tourists. We then reached Myin Kabar village known for its high quality lacquer ware products. Close by is Gubyaukgyi Temple, which was built to enshrine a golden image, it is a fine temple in the Early Style, square, with a vestibule in the east. It is also noted for the paintings, which cover the walls of the vestibule, the corridor and the sanctum. These paintings are among the earliest now existing in Bagan.

We visited the famous pagodas of Bagan such as Ananda, Dhammayangyi, ShweSandaw, Thatbyinnyu, Myinkaba and we were pleased to see the amazement on the tourists faces.


great escapes


Next day at 6 o’clock in the morning, we departed Bagan Port and headed to Pakhuku. Pakokku is a town about 30 km northwest of Bagan on the Ayeyawaddy River. That night we had an unfamiliar European style meal but after dinner we were entertained by a Myanmar Marionette show.

All passengers were delighted as puppets danced beautifully and rhythmically with music. They also clapped along to seven kinds of Myanmar Traditional Dances and a romantic dance by male & female dancer puppets.

That night the Ayeyawaddy River surface was rolled out like a mat and the moon shone indistinctly among the clouds creating dreamy beauty.

“I’m very interested in puppets. This is really art because of the many strings that are played by puppeteer” said that Dr. Kenneth.

Some rain drops started to slowly fall. After finishing the puppet show, Dr. Kenneth wanted to talk about Myanmar, so he joined us.

The rain stopped and above the pagodas on Tant Kyi Hill, was a twinkle of lightening.

The next morning the sun streams in as I open the cabin door and our ship was steaming up the Ayeyawaddy River.

After taking a bath, I had my breakfast. As usual, breakfast is European style. Jam, marmalade, coffee, yogurt, bread & butter is on the table. Tourists love breakfast.

“When did you prepare this breakfast?” I asked the steward Morris.

“We have been preparing since 5am” Morris replied with a smile.

“All employees on board are hospitable, so aged people feel as if they are being treated by their own children. That’s how I feel” said my colleague U Hla Phone Aung.

“You don’t want to go back home U Phone?” I joked.

Fresh air, the wide Ayeyawaddy River and a delicious breakfast are very compatible. Our morning is very pleasant.

In Pakukko, a three wheeled cars, called Toke Tokes are waiting for us.

“First we will visit a wholesale onion market and then a Thanatkha plant market (Myanmar traditional make-up). And then we will visit a world famous sculpture pagoda and cheroot making factory” said Ko Thiha Aung.

Next morning, our ship arrived at Yanapo Village. It is famous for an Anglo-Myanmar peace treaty that was signed in 1826. It is also a well-known place for making pots by hand. At the village we learnt the lifestyle of the villagers.

We returned to the ship and we sailed the whole afternoon up the river. In the evening looking at the shore we saw a big golden pagoda called Kaung Hmu Daw. That means we are approaching

Sagiang and, according to our agenda tomorrow morning, we will be at the ancient city of Innwa, and tomorrow evening we will visit Amarapura and Taung Ta Man Lake.

At Taung Ta Man my colleague and I will have to wave good bye to the ship. Tonight the ship will anchor in a village near Innwa.

Pandaw will continue to Sagaing Hill and Mingune Hill over the next three days.

At dinner time Dr. Kenndrick sat with us. This night was very memorable. After finishing dinner we talked for such a long time. Then, to our happy suprise, the ships staff started playing guitar. They sang a famous song called Phay Taint Lite, that night all of us were very happy.

In the morning we arrived at Innwa and went sightseeing around this ancient city of the Myanmar Kings by horse and cart. Passing through the moat we saw only rough ground and small houses, it is hard to imagine it was once a mighty city. Children selling trinkets followed us by bicycle the whole way.

We visited a big monastery called Malnu Oak Kyaung, the old city watchtower and an old wooden monastery. Afterwards we returned to the ship. As usual the staff of the ship were waiting at the entrance and gave us cold drinks.

At noon we had lunch as the boat passed under Sagaing Bridge. From Sagaing we will continue to the Mahamuni Buddha image and then Taung Ta Man Lake.

When I turned to my right I could see Mandalay Hill, over the top of the ship, signaling our journeys end. That night the guests on the ship will experience a traditional dance. But sadly, the dance, the Pandaw, room No.206, the friendly staff and the Ayeyawaddy we will miss tonight.

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mom, and when I became a model I started doing theme-shoots with my own costumes-design. But it wasn't until 2013 I started making my own props/cosplay and going to the conventions.

Which person do you most

admire and why?

There are many to choose from, I admire people that are strong & ambitious. Feks. YaYa Han is a very first self-made international cosplay-celebrity and I wish to follow her foot steps. For you how does cosplay fit

into modern culture?

Cosplay is a way to bring fictional characters to life. Modern culture is filled with different forms of entertaining, and when cosplay is making costume and acting out the character (sing/dance), it become more than just a hobby. It could lead to a carreer opportunity. Plus it´s a good way to be a part of a fun and creative community no matter the age.

Is there a cosplay culture in

Myanmar?

I believe there is, I think the 6th annual Myanmar Cosplay & Otaku Festival is this month. Though I know little of the cosplay culture here, I wish to experience it in the future. Maybe I could be there next year ;)

Mandy M.Thompson


What is the best event you have

attended?

I can’t decide between Anime-Festival-Asia (AFA) in Singapore and London Comic-Con (MCM-expo). But I had fun posing, performing and making new friends.

Do you think it can be harmful

to blur the lines between

fiction and reality?

It could raise issues with the expectation of what beauty should be, but I believe we all should understand that there is a difference between fantasy and reality.

If someone gave you 10,000

USD what would you do?

Since I believe in earning money, I would use the money to take on projects that would expand the cosplay culture in Myanmar. I really want to be apart of the cosplay-community in my home-country.

What are your plans for the

future?

That I could move back to Myanmar and continue on working in show-biz. I do plan on coming back in Jan. 2016 to do some modelling & cosplay work.

5 minutes with

Myanmar Cosplay Model

Who is Mandy M. Thompson?

I would say she is an opportunist and entertainer. I was born in Myanmar but grow up in Norway. I went to performance-art school and was a dancer until I damaged my back and had multiple operations. Then I took a bachelor in Business. I started working as a freelance model/promoter in Norway & Singapore. But since 2013 I have focused my work on Cosplay/Model. You can follow my work/projects on twitter & facebook ´MandyCandyWorld´.

What is cosplay?

Cosplay is "costume and play", it came from japanese pop-culture where someone dresses-up and acts like the character. The characters are from books, movies, comics, games & animation. You can travel to conventions to compete for the championship-title but there are strict-rules for self-made costume/props and performance on the stage. Cosplay is about the accuracy.

What got you involved in

cosplay?

Since I was little I have always enjoyed making costumes with my

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Feature

MvotERTwo Weeks Filled With sweat and Happiness

Mae Pay Soh Hack Challenge was a competition designed and hosted by Phandeeyar which challenged teams to find IT solutions to promote a smooth and fair election.

I participated in Mae Pay Soh Hack Challenge which was held over the last two weeks. My friend, Phyo Min Thu, contacted me a week before the event started and asked me to join his team. It was hard for me to decide whether I should participate or not since I had a final exam coming up at university. I actually aim to get a scholarship next year and the grades mean a lot. I got bad grades last year and I don’t want to end up being a “loser” again. I finally went YOLO and decided to participate in the event.

Our Team Name is PopStack. Stack is a term used in data collection in Computer Science. And “Pop” means “Removing”. Together, it means “Solving from a stack of problems”. The team consists of 5 developers, Phyo Min Thu, iOS Developer and our UX Engineer (Hats off btw), Kaung Myat Lwin, our web Developer and Myat Min Soe, Ye Min

had to switch the libraries because of back-porting issues.

The trouble I faced was managing my time. Like I said before, the event clashed with the exams and I had to make sure I could give time for both. Almost everyday after exams, I went to Ye Min Htut’s place, which was our work space for the whole event (thanks for literally turning your room into our little office). I worked there until 6 or 7 P.M and used the rest of the night to study for the next subjects. I didn’t want to be the guy who takes no responsibility but takes credit for the work. It was kinda hard for me to juggle between coding and studying.

The event was exciting. Unlike other Hackathons that have happened before, this time, the topic is the Election and voters’ education. So it felt like you were not working just for this particular Hackathon, but for everyone in the country. I, myself got to learn about the election processes during the development. We tried our best developing the app and I believe users will learn many things from it. We didn’t actually think we were going to get the first prize. We were already talking about publishing and promoting it ourselves. Before the prize announcement, we were humming Linkin Park’s ‘In The End’. It was an amazing moment. Anyway, the prize is not the most important reason most of the time. I believe what matters is doing what you love and are fond of, then it’s worth doing.

Our app has been released. You can start following the activities at MVoter Page. We can’t wait to get feedback from our users around the country. So LIKE the page, and stay tuned!

facebook link https://www.facebook.com/MaePaySoh

Left to Right : Myat Min Soe, Phyo Min Thu, Aung Kyaw Paing, Ye Min Htut, Kaung Myat Lwin

Htut and me as Android Devs. We were the only team with university students from ages 17 to 20.

We spent the first week deciding about UI/UX. It has to be usable for everyone, so I guess that’s the most important part in the whole project. We started coding around the 19th of September. We used BitBucket to collaborate. Prototypes were made with Sketch. Selecting Third-Party Libraries for development was a little tricky as we had to carefully check their minimum SDK, so that we can make sure it runs okay on low-end handsets with Gingerbread Version software. Sometimes we

Aung Kyaw Paing

Photo: Aung Win Htut

Photo: Aung Win Htut


ExplorE Yangon Kids

Win Win Htwe

During a holiday, children like

to play in the park. but, why not

take your children to play at

happy zone, it is a park with a

difference. For children there are

many kinds of fascinating games

to play at happy zone, as well

as the opportunity to play in the

surrounding public squares and

public gardens. it is worthwhile

to take your child there on a

Saturday or Sunday because on

a public holiday, many people

go, so it is often very crowded.

However, on holidays they have special programmes and events, such as present giving, performances by magicians, dancing elephants and dancers. Happy Zone is a branch of Happy World located in People’s Park.

Happy Zone is also a place where you can watch 5D movies in their interactive cinema. The interactive movies include Ghost City, Roller Coaster, Jungle, Mommy, War Snow Mountain, and Space War – all of which are guaranteed to leave you feeling exhilarated!

Happy Zone entrance fees is free (provided you have paid to enter People’s park), however, you will need some money for attractions and gifts. The cost is about 500 Kyats per activity.

There are also some more adult rides such as a Ghost House, a FUNNY House, and even an

Alcohol House which simulates the feeling of being an alcoholic! The Dinosaur Park and ghost train are likewise targeted at an older audience.

So come one and all on Holidays, Saturdays and Sundays and visit Happy Zone, People’s Park.

Damazaydi Road, in front of Yuzana Tower,near traffic Myaynigone, Dagon Township

Happy World Amusement Park

The parent of Happy Zone, Happy world is located in the nearby U Wizara Park. It is a good place to escape from busy life. The best part of the park itself is a beautiful lake on which you can sail both pedal boats or rowboats. The amusement park has a similar range of rides as Happy Zone - fun houses, bumper cars, and so on. Extra attractions are a pavilion selling souvenirs and the Golden Duck Restaurant.

U Wizara Park,Near Shwedagon Padoga


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ေရြးေကာကတငေျမာကရနအတြက ဆႏၵမေပးရေတာမညျဖစသည။

၂ဝဝ၈ ခႏစ ဖြ႕စညးပအေျခခဥပေဒ ပဒမ ၁၂(က) အရ လႊတေတာအသးသးတြင ဥပေဒျပရန တာ၀နရပါသည။ ႏငငေတာ၏ အမးသားစမကနး၊ ႏစစဥ ရ/သး မနးေျခ ေငြစာရငးႏင အခြနအေကာကဆငရာ ဥပေဒၾကမးမားအား ျပညေထာငစ အစးရကသာ ျပညေထာငစလႊတေတာသ႔ တငသြငးရပါသည (ပဒမ ၁ဝ၀)။

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၁။ အမးသားလႊတေတာႏင ၂။ ျပညသ႔လႊတေတာ

အဆပါလႊတေတာတစရပစအတြက ဥက႒တစဥးစအား ေရြးေကာကတငေျမာက ၿပး ဥက႒ႏစဥးသည ျပညေထာငစလႊတေတာ နာယကအျဖစ လေပါငး ၃ဝ စ အလညက တာ၀နထမးေဆာငရပါသည။

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ေရြးေကာကတငေျမာကေသာ ကယစားလယေနရာ ၃၃၀ အပါအဝင လႊတေတာ ကယစားလယဥးေရ အမားဆး ၄၄ဝ ဥးျဖင ဖြ႕စညးထားပါသည။ ၿမ႕နယက အေျခခ၍ လဥးေရက အေျခခ၍ လညးေကာငး၊ ၿမ႕နယအသစတစခ ထပမ ဖြ႕စညးလင နးစပရာ ၿမ ႕နယတစခႏင ေပါငး၍လညးေကာငး၊ မဆႏၵနယတစခအား သတမတပါသည။

တပမေတာကာကြယေရးဥးစးခပက တပမေတာသားကယစားလယ ၁၁ဝ ဥး အား အမညစာရငး တငသြငးပါသည။ (ျပညသ႔လႊတေတာ ေရြးေကာကပြဥပေဒ၊ ပဒမ ၃)


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ကယပငအပခပခြငရတငး သ ႔မဟတ ကယပင အပခပခြငရေဒသတစခစမ ကယစားလယ တစဥးစ အပါအ၀င တငးေဒသႀကး သ ႔မဟတ ျပညနယ တစခစလင ကယစားလယ ၁၂ ဥးကစ တညစြာျဖင ကယစားလယ ၁၆၈ ဥး မာ ေရြး ေကာကတငေျမာကခရသမားျဖစသည။

တပမေတာကာကြယေရးဥးစးခပက တပမေတာ သားကယစားလယ ၅၆ ဥးက အမညစာရငး တင သ ြားသညအတြက တငးေဒသႀကး သ ႔မဟတ ျပညနယတစခစလင တပမေတာသား အမးသား လႊတေတာ ကယစားလယ ၄ ဥး ကစ ပါ၀ငပါသည။

(အမးသားလႊတေတာ ေရြးေကာကပြ ဥပေဒ၊ပဒမ ၃)

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လယဥးေရသည သကဆ ငရာ တငးေဒသႀကး သ႔မဟတ ျပညနယရ ၿမ႕နယ အေရအတြကေပၚ တြင မတညပါသည။

ေရြးေကာကတငေျမာကေသာ ကယစားလယမား အျပင တငးေဒသႀကး သ႔မဟတ ျပညနယ အသးသး တြင လႊတေတာကယစားလယ စစေပါငး၏ ၃ ပ ၁ ပ မာ တပမေတာသား ကယစားလယမား ျဖစပါသည။ သကဆငရာ တငးေဒသႀကး သ႔မဟတ ျပညနယ အျဖစ သတမတျခငး ခရၿပး သ႔မဟတ အဆပါ တငးေဒသႀကး သ ႔မဟတ ျပညနယအတြငးမာပင ကယပငအပခပခြငရ စရငစ ရရၿပးေသာ တငးရငး သား လမးမားမအပ ကနတငးရငးသားလမးမား အနက ႏငငေတာရ လဥးေရ စစေပါငး၏ ၀.၁ ရာခငႏ ႈနးႏ င အထကရေၾကာငး ေရြးေကာကပြ ေကာမရငက သတမတေသာ တငးရငးသားလမး အသးသးက လမးတစမ းလင တငးေဒသႀကး သ႔မဟတ ျပညနယလႊတေတာ ကယစားလယ ၁ ဥးကစ ေရြးေကာကတငေျမာကပါသည။

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ဖ ြ ႕စညးထားသည သမၼတ ေရြးခယတငေျမာက ေရးအဖြ ႕မ ေရြးခယတငေျမ ာကျခငး ျဖစသည။ (ဖြ႕စညးပအေျခခဥပေဒ၊ ပဒမ ၆၀)

ဥပေဒျပလႊတေတာမား၏ သကတမးမာ ၅ ႏစ ျဖစပါသည။ ထ႔ေၾကာင အေထြေထြေရြးေကာကပြ မားအား ၅ ႏစတစႀကမ ကငးပရျခငး ျဖစသည။

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ေရြးေကာကပြမတငမ မဆႏၵရငစာရငးက ကပထား ေၾကညာသည အခနတြင ထမဆႏၵရငစာရငး၌ မမ အမည ပါ၊ မပါ သြားေရာကစစေဆးၾကည႐ႈရမည။

အသက ၁၈ ႏစျပညၿပး မဆႏၵရငတငးသည ဆႏၵမ ေပးခြင ရသည။

“ႏငငသားတငးသည ဖ ြ ႕စညးပအေျခခဥပေဒ၊ သကဆငရာ ဥပေဒမားႏ င မဆန ႕ကငလ င ျ ပ ည သ ႔ လ ႊ တေ တာ ၊ အ မ း သား လ ႊ တေ တာ ၊ တငးေဒသႀကးလႊတေတာ သ ႔မဟတ ျပညနယ လ ႊ တေ တာ တ စ ရ ပ ရ ပ တ ြ င ေ ရ ြးေ ကာ က တငေျမာကခြငႏင ေရြးေကာကတငေျမာကခပင ခြငရသည။

[ ဖြ႕စညးပအေျခခဥပေဒ၊ ပဒမ ၃၆၉ (က)” ]

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RegionalrEsTAUrANTsWhen you vist Yangon, you will cer-tainly visit Karaweik Oo Yin Kabar (Karaweik Gardens). Within Kara-weike Oo Yin Kabar you will find Karaweik Palace, and within the pal-ace a splendid lunch menu.

Karaweik Palace has three lunch op-tions, Pwel Taw Oak (Myanmar set menu for four), Daung Lan (Myan-mar set menu for two) and Interna-tional dishes. The set menu for four is 35,000 Kyats which is very good value for Yangon.

This set menu, Pwel Taw Oak, con-tains 13 side dishes on two big cir-cular trays on a stand and four meat dishes. There is also complementary

rice and soup. The side dishes in-clude Mawlamyaing bean curd sal-ad, deep fried fish, fried vegetables, brinjal, bean, fried roselle, and pawn with gourd.

Whilst you eat you can enjoy a tradi-tional puppet show and traditional singing. So, you can come with family, friends and foreign guests as an intro-duction to tasty Myanmar food and tra-ditional performing.

This idea is backed up by Ma Su Nandar Win (the Sales &Reservation Manager), she says, “This is Myanmar, so we serve tasty Myanmar food. Many foreigners come for the Myanmar lunch. They

The House of Memories contains the of-fice of the late Myanamar national hero, General Aung San. Meetings of the Bur-mese Independence Army (BIA) were held there and the original furniture and other items have been kept.

The House of Memories serves a variety of Myanmar traditional food, including Nan Pya, an In-dian style flat bread, which was the favourite food of General Aung San. Chinese Cuisine and Western

Myanmar’s very first Shan-style fine dining restaurant, Shan Yoe Yar, is in an attractively redecorated century-old teak mansion.

Shan Yoe Yar only offers authentic Shan food. The menu includes almost all the traditional Shan dishes like eggplant soup, potato croquettes, and crispy fried leek roots which are served with rice. There is also Sa Kon (a traditional beef salad), Sa Ta Lu (Shan-style pork salad), Mine Tauk (an eggplant curry) and Inle Hinn Htoke (steamed chicken and Shan

also come to the dinner which has a special cultural show”.

You can order the Daung Lan (the set menu for two people) or an In-dividual lunch which will cost 9,000 Kyats per person. Both options

contain a meat main dish and side dishes. With the great food and bet-ter prices even more and more locals are coming for lunch.

Pwel Taw Oak - four persons 35,000 Kyats

Open Daily – 11am to 3pm

Pwel Taw Oak by Karaweik Palace (Myanmar)

Shan Yoe Yar (Shan)

The House of Memories (Myanmar)

vegetables in banana leaf). Personally I like the steamed fish, however the Kyaing Tong Meeshay (Shan-style

noodles with pickled mustard, dried soybean powder soup) is generally considered the top dish.

6am to 10pm, Wa Dan Street,

Lanmadaw Township, 01 221524

dishes are also available. Every day from 6 pm to 8 pm, there is a hap-py hour where drinks are 50% off.

No. 290, U Wizara Road, Kamaryut Township

01 525 195, 01 534 242, 09 731 914 98, 09 528 3327

[email protected] to 11pm

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This Kachin restaurant has recently opened on Shan Khone Street near to the Balzon building. People know that a cousin of Myanmar singer star, Ar-T, opened this shop. Chin Ngan Satt, means sour, salty and spicy. Like most of the Kachin restaurants in Yangon the tastes are different in the extreme.

Opened in August, this shop is dif-ferent from other Rakhine restau-rants in that they sell products from the Yomma Forest (Near the Bago division) and their seafood is spe-cially cooked.Their special dishes are spicy fish soup, fisherman’s curry, and spicy crab, as well as wild boar curry and deer curry. A curry of wild boar or deer with rice is 2,500 kyats and pawn curry with rice is 7,000 kyats, so why not pick both and you can choose your favorite.

This restaurant is clean and relax-ing. You can find it easily on Hledan Main Road, near the school. The

Padonmar (Lotus Flower) is a grand looking restaurant which offers Myanmar fine dining. The commit-ment is to promote Myanmar Cui-sine as a fine dining option and not just as ‘street side’ food. The restau-

Yomma Annawar Rakhine Shop (Min Lan Group) (Rakhine)

Fudodo Shan Restaurant (Shan)

Padonmar Restaurant (Myanmar)

Chin Ngan Satt (Food & Drink) (Kachin)

This shop predominantly sells curry with rice; however, there are a few side dishes such as mushroom curry soup, Rakhine brinjal soup, and Nga-pi sauce with the vegetables.

Open Daily- 10am to 4pmNo.24, Corner of Bo Sein Mahn

Street and Nga Mauk Street, Kyikekasan Quarter, Bahan Tsp09 263 52 6300, 09 78 996 3700

owner comes from Northern Shan state, Muse city; she makes Shan tra-ditional foods by herself.

After you eat their catfish hot pot, it will be your favorite. This spicy Hot Pot, called the Malar Hot Pot, is very cheap (1,500 Kyats). They also serve Shan noodles, salad, soup, Ma-lar curry, fried noodles, fried rice, chicken feet salad, Yunan pork head salad and much more.

Another top dish is the Malar potato salad, which is a Chinese dish. These salad potatoes are served with peanut, soy bean, sesame and green chili. The

restaurant can sit about 40 people.8am to 9pm

Hledan Road, (in front of B.E.H.S No.5), Kamayut Tsp, 09 517 467

rant has a lot of seating both inside and out and hosts many tour groups during the tourist season.

Padonmar serves both Myanmar and Thai Cuisines. Two of their most fa-mous dishes are Thai style Tom Yam Koong and Talapaw – a traditional Karen soup made with fish. The menu includes several Myanmar cuisines in-cluding curries which they deliberately use less oil in to make them healthier and more suited to international tastes.

On the menu is pounded papaya, spicy egg salad, Kachin steamed fish, and spicy flat noodles salad. Overall there are 20 items to choose from. A per-sonal favourite are the fried pan rolls with vegetables, pawns, potatoes, fish or glutinous rice. The rolls have a fresh flavour to fit any palate and will cost between 1,500 - 2,500 Kyats.

A range of drinks are on offer includ-ing traditional liquor, jelly lime juice, ice coffee, J- Cup Shake, and Peal Milk Shake. Drinks cost about 1,000 Kyats apart from the traditional li-quor which is 2,500 kyats.

Open Daily 1pm to 8pmNo. 58, Shan Khone Street,

Myanigone, Sanchaung Tsp,09 240 0808

No 105/107, Khayaybin Road, Dagon Township

01 122 0616, 09 730 299 73,

09 7310 8608, 09 540 9469,09 732 424 10


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Ko Bo san has worked in the Myanmar entertainment market for 15 years, he is the main

person behind Bo Bo Entertainment, Bo Bo Music Production, Bo Bo Film Production and

also Advertising.

KO BO sAN(Bo Bo Entertainment)

He has been involved in the Myanmar music scene since 1998. His friends lead Myanmar Hip Hop, for example Acid; the pioneer Myanmar Hip Hop Singer group, and Sai Sai Kham Leng; the famous Myanmar singer/star.

We talked about art, and the development of Myanmar’s entertainment industry.

“My hobby is music and I was a friend of Yan Yan Chan (a Myanmar Hip Hop Singer), we were classmates. We started holding an event called the ‘Tea Party’ in the afternoons. This

was the start of Bo Bo Entertainment. The Tea Party hosted DJs and contemporary dancers (who were very scarce in those days). Sai Sai Kham Leng, Annaga (the 1st generation of Myanmar hip hop singers) and Myo Kyawt Myaing (singer/composer) came to the Tea Party events in 1998. Acid (the Pioneer Hip Hop singer group) had not yet released a music album, they were underground and new. At that time the most famous celebrity party group were makeup artists, for example Taw Win Thu May Oo Maung and December Hnin. We waited for a date when they were all free and arranged a party”, said Ko Bo San.

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KO BO sAN(Bo Bo Entertainment)

The Tea Party was held on Sundays every week. “We certainly celebrated!” Ko Bo San continued, “Clubs and entertainment places were rare in 1998. Everybody went to Bogyoke market when they had free time.”

In 2000 he organized his first music show. “I organized the Iron Cross show in Mya Yeike Nyo hotel, Bahan Township. The show’s title was New Century (Yar Su Thit) and included fashion modeled by Lay Phyu, Ah Nge and MyoGyi. We partnered with Ko John Lwin (Star model agency) for the event. I remember that date, Valentine’s Day Eve, February 13. We received unexpected encouragement.”

Because entertainment was rare at that time and there were only a few singers, people were excited to see the show. Access to performances have changed since then “Now, almost all singers go to the shopping centers for promotions. So, people go to the shopping centers.”

By 2004 he was both arranging music shows and producing music under Bo Bo Music Production. One of the first albums was “Yee Sar (Boyfriend)” released by Shwe Htike and Khin Bone. Another famous album was “Examplez Live Show”; a live show album by the boy band Examplez. It was the first live show album for Bo Bo Music Production and was very well received.

In 2004, he started film production with director Nyi Nyi Htun Lwin. But it was not professional and only a test production. Now, he has decided to produce films as a producer. Right now he is making a film with Phway Phway (actress) and another movie with the singer stars Hlwan Paing and Yair Yint Aung. He produces a video movie per month and four films per year.

Ko Bo San says the reason he chooses singers as actors is, “The audience will get a one-off taste. If these movies are good or not, we will know after distribution. But, I believe the audience will like these movies.

The entertainment market is down; so I am not producing too much. Because the audience buys only if they actually like it. Everybody likes love songs right now. But, if you want success in the entertainment business it will take time.Currently there is a large amount of copy songs and illegal recordings; if this problem is stopped business will improve.

Some singers are selling online but it is not too easy in Myanmar at this time. Some websites give free links and not everybody can use a credit card in Myanmar. So, we need to wait for online selling.”

After over 15 years in this field, he has had to develop and change himself to keep up. Overall he believes for this market in Myanmar to be properly developed, it will need better copyright laws. He also feels that to work in this field you must be actually interested in and love entertainment, because it takes a long time for success.

Now he is producing the film, “The Storm Kiss Me (Ngar Ko Nan Tae Mhone Tie) ” which will be released on the 15 year Anniversary of Bo Bo Entertainment and Music Production.

Bo Bo Music Production are always looking for new talent and if you are interested in music or want to release a music album please get in touch.

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ယခဆရင ရနကနၿမ႕ႀကးမာ လဥးေရ ခႏစသနးေကာလာၿပျဖစလ႔ တစႏစမာ အပခနးလအပခကက အမခနးေပါငး သးေသာငးျဖစပါတယ။ အခဆရင တစႏစ က အမခနးေပါငး တစေသာငးေလာကပ ျဖညဆညးႏငလ႔ အလဥမမပါဘး။ ေျမေစးႀကးျမငမႈကလညး အမခနးေအာင ျမငတကေနပါတယ။ အမျခေျမ ေစးဟာ အမနးခငး ထငးႏငငထက ႏစဆခန႔ ျမငတကေနရာက ယခဆရင ေဒသတြငး ႏငငမားထက အဆ ၂ဝေကာ၊ အေမရကန နယးေယာကၿမ ႕ရ႕ ေျမေစးန႔ နငလား၊ ငါလား၊ ေျပာလ႔ရေအာင ႀကးျမငေနပါၿပ။ ဒါဟာလညး ေနရာအကြကအကြငး၊ လမးပနးဆကသြယေရးန႔ စမကနးအလားအလာေတြေပၚ မတညၿပးေစးႏႈနးေတြ ေခါငခကတာပါ။ ဒါေၾကာင ရနကနၿမ ႕ရ႕ သြငျပငလကၡဏာမေပာကေစဘ အစမး ေရာငနယေျမန႔ ဆတၿငမရပကြကေတြ ကန႔သတထားၿပး ဒလ၊ သနလင၊ ေမာဘ၊ လညးကးအပါအ၀င ၿမ ႕သစတညဖ႔ ၿမ ႕ျပစမကနးေတြ ေရးဆြတာက သရပါတယ။ ဒါဟာလညး အနာဂတမာ Mega City ျဖစလာမယ ရနကနၿမ႕ေတာအတြက ၿမ ႕သစတးခ႕တ၊ ဥးစားေပးခႏစချဖစတ အေရ႕ေျမာကပငး၊ အေနာကေတာငပငး၊ ဒလၿမ႕နယ၊ သနလငၿမ႕နယ၊ ထနးတပငၿမ႕နယ၊ ေမာဘၿမ႕နယန႔ လညးကး ၿမ ႕နယတ႔က ဆလတာပါ။ ၿပးေတာ ၂ဝ၃ဝ-၃၁ ဘ႑ာေရးႏစအၿပး အမရာက႑ႏစ (၂ဝ) ႏစရညဖြ႕ၿဖးေရး စမကနးလညးရေနပါတယ။ ဥပမာဆရလင အစးရ ဝနထမးမားက ဥးစားေပးေရာငးခေပးမယ ဒဂ ၿမ ႕သစဆပကမးျမ ႕နယက ဧရာဝဏန႔ ရတနာအထပျမင အမရာစမကနးဟာဆရင ရနကနၿမ႕ရ႕ ပထမဆး ႏငငတကာအဆငမ အထပ ၁၈ ထပ အထပျမင အမရာေတြပါပ။ စငကာပကမၸဏ က ပစထတေပးတာပါ။ ဒလတနဖးသင၊တနဖးမတအမရာအျပင တနဖးနညးန႔ လစဥေပး အငားခအမရာစမကနးေတြလညး ရပါေသးတယ။

ေလာေလာဆယဝယယႏငဖ႔ကေတာ လကရေပါကေစးန႔ အတအပ အလမအညာမရဘ လကေရာကရယဖ႔ပါပ။ စးပြားေရးသမားအခ႕က ေျမအေရာငး အဝယမာ ေစးကစားၾကတာေၾကာင ေျမေစးဟာ ႀကးျမငဆျဖစပါတယ။ ဒါေပမယ ဒႏစမာ ရနကနတငးေဒသႀကး ျပညတြငးအခြနမားဥးစးဌာနက ထပမတးျမင လကတေျမခြနစႏႈနးေၾကာင အခြနေဆာငဖ႔ ဝနေလးလာတာကလညး ေျမေစးက ေအးစကသြားေစပါတယ။ ကနထ႐က တကခနးေစးေတြကလညး ဒလပါပ။ ကနထ႐ကေတြမာ ကနၾကမးစရတတးျမငသြားတာရယ အခြနတးျမငေကာက ခတာေတြေၾကာင ေျမရငန႔ပျဖစျဖစ၊ ဝယသန႔ အရစကႀကပြငစနစပျဖစျဖစ စာခပပါအတငး ကတမတညတာရလာခရင ယၾကညမႈပကျပားသြားေစပါတယ။ ဒါေၾကာင အမ ျခ ေျမ ဝယမယဆရင

ပငဆငမႈ အ႐ႈပအရငးကစၥက အရငစဥးစားပါ။ ေျမအမးအစားဟာ ဘာလ၊ ေရာငးမယဟာ အေမြဆငလား၊ တစဥးတညးပငလား၊ အေပါငအႏ အ႐ႈပ အရငးရသလားဆတာ စစေဆးရပါမယ။

အရပစာခပန႔ အေရာငးအဝယလပထားတ ရြာေျမန႔ စကပးေျမေတြဟာ ျပနာျဖစေစတတပါတယ။

ဒါေၾကာင ဝယယမႈမနသမ စာခပစာတမးမတပတင႐းမာ တရားဝငမတပတင ဖ႔ အေရးႀကးပါတယ။

ၿပးေတာ ပငဆငမႈဆငရာ စာရြကစာတမးအတမားကလညး သတထားရ ပါတယ။ ေငြေခေတာမယဆရင ၿမ႕ေတာစညပင႐းမာ ေျမပငဆငမႈမနမမန သြားေရာကစစေဆးသငပါတယ။

စလစ၊ ေျမငားစာခပ (ဂရန)၊ ေျမခပါမစေတြန႔ အေရာငးအဝယလပရင ၿမ႕ေတာစညပင၊ ၿမ႕ျပႏင အမရာဖြ႕ၿဖးေရးဌာနန႔ ေျမရာဌာနမာ တစပတ ေလာက အခနယေစာငဆငးၿပး စစစဝယယသငပါတယ။

ေျမခပါမစဆတာဟာ အးအမဥးစးဌာနက ၿမ႕ကြကအသစေဖာတေနရာမာ မသားစဓာတပန႔ ေျမေနရာခေပးတာပါ။ တရားဝငျပနလညေရာငးခခြငမရ၊ ေနအမအေဆာကအအေဆာကလပဖ႔ အေထာကအထားတစခသာ ျဖစပါ တယ။

ေျမကြက (သ႔) တကခနးက မသမာေသာနညးန႔ တစၿပငနက တစဥးထကပၿပး ေရာငးခတာေၾကာင တရား႐းမာ ပငဆငအတြက အမႈအခငးျဖစႏငပါတယ။

ဒါေၾကာင ပငဆငမႈ မနမမန ၿမ ႕ေတာစညပငသကဆငရာဌာနန႔ ဆကသြယ၍ သတငးစာတြင အေရာငးအဝယ အတြက ကန႔ကြကရန ရမရ ေၾကညာသင ပါတယ။

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How did you start your business?I was a singer from 2000 to 2009 in Yangon. After 2009, I started to step into the real estate business. I established 777 Lux Group Company in 2012. This company is a property development advisory and real estate business.

You started as a singer and then you changed to a business person. These two are very different paths. so, what are the challenges for you?Yes, this is a different path. But art is the hobby I am passionate about and real estate is the most interesting subject in my life. Because real estate is something I am interested in, I can solve the difficulties and challenges. I do not look at it as a disappointment; I see just what I can learn and experience.

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What are the difficulties?Every start up business has difficulties. We had so many difficulties when we started. But I could solve them with my business partners. We passed through the challenges successfully.

Let me know about of 777 Lux?I have three partners Mr. Darrit Cho, Mr. Joseph Khoo and Mr. Stephen Lee. They have so much international real estate business experience. We all work extremely hard to be successful and we are similar in nature.

The main business is property development advisory and real estate. Our purpose is to reveal good opportunities and chances, and also build

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international standard condominiums, serviced apartments, hotels, office towers, hospitals and schools.

How do you lead your staff?In my company, we have the best staff. I always say, we need to have experts who are loyal, not lazy, make an effort and think about other people. This gives a family mind set and breeds teamwork.

How did you balance your personal life and business?In life these should be equal and it is very important to balance them. Of course, we want to be successful in business, but at the same time it

is not enough to only have the personal life. More things are important. These things are basically money, success, life partner, family, health, education, current job, and friends; all these things need to be in balance for life. I mean, life needs to be passed like an exam, these are the subjects. You should be qualified in all of them. We live an unbalanced life if each of these is different. You can manage the time you spend on each by planning. It is the best way to manage life. If you can manage the time you spend on each important thing, you will not waste the time you have.

Are you living your dream?When I was a child, I had three dreams. First was to be a singer, second was to be an engineer, and third was to be a pilot. I really wanted my dreams to come true. At 18 years old; I chose to be a singer and I became a singer. My second dream didn’t fully come true but now I work together with engineers for construction and development projects. The final one is to be a pilot; I don’t know when it will come true. One day, I will be flying a plane and my dreams will be complete.

What is your business goal?My business is property development and real estate, so I want to become a successful developer and investor in the future.

What advise would you give young people about business?Be careful what business you choose. If it is related to your hobby that is best. So, you won’t do it grudgingly. If it is not related to your hobby, you will bare a grudge, lose interest, your motivation will drop and you will become depressed. Of course, you should carefully choose your carreer. And then, focus on how to achieve it and become an expert in the skills you need - that is very important. On your way you will need to work and study hard. It is all down to willpower. Your success will be dependent on that – the flame is possible, small or big. If you have great willpower; everything will be easy. So, I advise young people, “choose your best path and start on it with great willpower today.”

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each year, on the auspicious full moon of

Tazaungmone (november), the eighth month of

the traditional Myanmar calendar, Tazaungdaing

Festival is held. also known as the Festival of lights,

marking the end of the rainy season, it is a time of

fireworks, lanterns and hot-air balloons.

Many houses and places of business display colored lanterns, open air lamps and candles to add more light to the festival. Many more lights are added to the pagodas. There is also a practice of eating Mezali leaf salads with the belief that it is medicinal if taken at this special time (at mid- night) on the full-moon day of Tazaungmon .

During the festival a carnival-like atmosphere comes alive with amusement rides, food stalls, concerts, and happy crowds. It is also a time when people offer robes and gifts to monks.

CelebrationsMathothingan A robe weaving competition between Myanmar’s ten top weavers is held in front of Lord Buddha’s image at ShweDagon Pagoda. These robe-weaving competitions, called Mathothingan, to weave special red monk robes are also held throughout the country. During these competitions, held for two consecutive nights (the night preceding and the night of the full moon), contestants work nonstop from dusk until dawn.

Kahtain Ceremony

The offering of special red robes to Buddhist monks. It is held communally. In connection with the offerings of typical monk's robes, the donation of a kathina robe at this particular time is regarded as the most meritorious.

Hot Air Balloon Festival

Elaborate hot air balloons lit with candles are released to celebrate the full moon day, similar to Yi Peng celebrations in Northern Thailand. The tradition originated in Taunggyi, but in recent years, these traditions have also been transported to other parts of the country, including Naypyidaw, which holds an annual government-sponsored event. Prize money is awarded for the best decorated and highest flying balloons.

satuditha feasts Satuditha feasts, which are open banquets, are hosted during this festival. On top of this alms giving, charity, paying homage to elders (gadaw) and visiting pagodas are also common. These activities are both religious and secular. Many concerts and other festivities, such as live performances of traditional dramas like the Yama Zatdaw, are also held between Thadingyut (the end of the Buddhist lent) and Tazaungdaing.

Kyimano Pwel

On full moon night, young men celebrate a custom called "kyimano Pwel", whereby they cause mischief by stealing or playing tricks on their neighbours. A common jest is to change the sign-board of a restaurant with the sign-board of toilet.

Hla Phone AungPhoto: Kyaw Zaw Lay & Than Htwe Zaw

in the UK each November we celebrate a firework festival. This generally involves a bonfire and a lot of waiting around in a draughty back garden, watching (from a safe distance) as someone’s dad struggles to ignite a succession of damp fireworks. After the disappointing whizz-bang-pops have finished we chew on sugar coated apples and discuss how much bigger, more dangerous and exciting fireworks used to be when we were younger.

n fact it wasn’t until I witnessed the orgy of light and noise that is the New Year celebrations at Sydney harbour in Australia, that I realised I’d never seen real fireworks before. But even that spectacle fades into insignificance when compared with the phantasmagorical fire balloon festival that is Tazaungdaing.

It’s a shame that Taunggyi isn’t on the itinerary of many tourists visiting Myanmar, as the capital of Shan State is blessed with one of the most pleasant climates in the country and has a wonderful laid back vibe. However most people bypass “The Big Hill” in favour of Nyaung Shwe at Inle Lake or the trekking regions of Kalaw and Pindaya. That all changes for one week in November each year when thousands flock to Taunggyi transforming the city into a riotous festival of noise, colour, explosions, and partying as Tazaudaing ’the festival of lights’ also known locally as ‘The fire Balloon Festival’ is celebrated.

During the hours of daylight hundreds of gigantic hot air balloons (Ayoke) built in the shape of animals, birds, fish and even Pagodas are launched into the sky. Flaming torches are held underneath the paper and bamboo balloons until sufficient hot air is contained within and then with the balloons straining at their ropes they are delicately released to serenely soar soundlessly into the sky followed by the cheers and good wishes of the crowd left behind.

As the sun sets, the alcohol begins to flow more freely, the music is turned up and the launching ground begins to buzz with anticipation. Things are about to get a lot more exciting, and a lot more dangerous.

Under the cover of darkness people jostle to help light and attach hundreds of candles and lanterns to the side of ‘Sein Na Pan’ balloons before they are released. Hundreds of little flames dance in the wind around the balloons as they lazily spin and slowly ascend into the night sky, it really is magical, like something from a fairy tale.

The ‘Nya Mee Gyi’ balloons, are the real draw of the festival however, and the main reason that many people have travelled to be here. These amazingly complicated contraptions are made up of a normal fire balloon, but have an added framework undercarriage packed with thousands of fireworks. As the balloon is released from the ground the fuses of the fireworks are lit and (if all goes to plan) a breathtaking display of fireworks is presented from below the balloon that builds in intensity the higher the balloon rises.

If the balloon successfully ascends and the fireworks go off at the right time then the crowd goes wild, and the pyro-technicians congratulate themselves on a job well done, this is a competition after all, with prize money in the many millions of kyat. However more importantly there are reputations to be upheld. The ‘fire-masters’ or ‘meesaya’ spend months designing and building their balloons and perfecting their fireworks displays and each year they get more and more elaborate.

Unfortunately every year there are incidents when everything doesn’t go to plan, and sometimes balloons don’t behave as they should. Casualties and sometimes fatalities occur as revelers are packed in close together in the balloon launching ground and cannot escape if a balloon were to fail. There is a special viewing platform a good distance away from the launching ground that offers great but safe views, and authorities are working hard to make the festival a safer place. The best option to stay safe is to keep far enough away from the balloons and beyond the reach of the fireworks.

Long after the last balloon has sailed over the hills to the east the dance music stages and bars remain open and the party continues into the early hours of the morning when the sun attempts to break through the thick smog of post firework smoke that blankets Taunggyi.

The temperature can drop quite dramatically at night at this altitude so dress accordingly, also the launching ground does get quite boggy so decent footwear is advisable. Accommodation in Taunggyi is booked up long in advance for the festival, and the prices of rooms are temporarily inflated. So book well in advance, or just stay in Nyaung Shwe and commute to the festival.


remember, remember the 21st to 26th of november.


by Cliff Lonsdale


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Miss Universe 2015 will be celebrated in december

this year, in Las Vegas, Nevada, UsA. Myanmar will

be competing for the third time again since a 50 year

absence. My Yangon meets May Barani Thaw to listen

her excitement about the competition in the UsA.

Why did you enter Miss Universe Myanmar 2015?

Miss Universe Myanmar has been running since 2013. I was a model at this time, so I did not enter. But I have always been impressed with the Miss Universe Myanamr competition since my childhood. This year I was given a chance and decided to enter the competition for Miss Universe Myanmar 2015.

How did you feel, when you won the title?

I felt very happy. And also felt sad. My first Miss competition was Miss People in 2013 (Miss People is organized by Myanmar People Magazine) and then I competed in Miss International Myanmar 2014. In these two competitions I won the second title (1st Runner Up). No matter how I tried, I always got second place. Now I feel better. Everybody wants to get the first.

How will you prepare for the Final of Miss Universe 2015?

My organization, Hallo Madam, has a plan for a camp in Thailand starting 1st of November with Miss Universe Myanmar 2016, Htet Htet Htun. I have less time for preparation. I have two months before the final. Because the Final competition of Miss Universe 2015 is in December. So, I will be trying my best for the competition.

What clothes have you prepared? What do you think about

National Costumes?

It will be arranged by my organisation. So many designers want to support me. So, we will discuss it with organisation. The National Costume part of the Myanamr competition was won by Han Lay (Miss Universe Myanmar- Mandalay). They told to me I can use her dress if I want. But, if I don’t want too I can ask the dress designer for a new one.

How do you study for the question section of the competition?

Can you say one as an example?

I study about Myanmar in detail. Last Year in Tokyo, they knew about Myanmar but they didn’t know where it was located. I explained where it was to them. When I go to the USA, I will try to explain the ethnic diversity in Myanmar. And then update them about the Myanmar election.

When a competition finishes there is so much criticism. What do

you want to say about this?

If it was last year, I would cry all the time. I was always sad and felt pressure. Now, I am not like this. When I took the place of Khin Wai Phyo Han (Miss International Myanmar 2014), some people said, I took her title by force. I was very sad at this time but this experience made me stronger. This year there was criticism as normal. In 2015, the organisation chose both the Miss 2015 and 2016 winners from Yangon division. This drew criticism about Miss Universe Myanmar 2015 final results. Whatever, I improved which is the best thing. When on Facebook, I never read the comments under my posts, I only look at the LIKE button.

What beauty advice do you want to give your women audience?

The main things are health and happiness. Try to live healthily and be at peace in your mind. In competition, I think only about happiness and focus to do my best. When we go on stage, we hear the news - who wins or not. I only focus on the best of the competition. Health and happiness can change into beauty.

May Barani Thaw


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Health&

Beauty

1st Lady Beauty Salon | 1A/42, U Zana St, Myathidar Housing, South Oakkalar Tsp| 850 001 7, 850 023 4, 09 506 662 2

Beauty Concepts | Unit-G11, No.231 Pyay Road, Sanchaung Tsp | 01 508 468, 01 508 469, 01 508 470

Beauty Choice | 65 Yae Kyaw Road, Pazundaung Tsp| 01 200 720, 09 450 061 156

California Skin Spa | 32. B Inya Myaing Road | 01 535 097

Inya Day Spa | 16/2 Inya Road, Kamaryut | 01 537 907 / 01 503 375

D Spa | 682 Thitsar Road (Ponnami Bus Stop) Ward 6 South Okkalapa Tsp | 09 25925 6686

La Source Beauty Spa | 80-A Inya Road | 01 512 380

Lemon Day Spa | No. 96 F, Inya Road, Kamayut Tsp | 01 514 848 / 09 732 08 476

London Bliss Spa | Taw Win Centre | 01 860 011

Beauty Box Spa | 14, Tamainbayan Road | 09 503 5556, 09 254 228982

Muguet Japon Spa | 1 F, New World Building 126 Kabar Aye Pagoda Road, Sayar San Quarter, Bahan Tsp 09 732 29 205

Nacha Spa | Near City Mart, Shin Saw Pu Road | 094 211 65 929

Yangon Sanctuary Spa (Taw Win Center) | No. 45, Pyay Road, Taw Win Center, Level-3 | 09 315 518 44, 09 253 242 440

Yangon Sanctuary Spa (Kaba Aye Pagoda Road) No. 192, Kaba Aye Pagoda Road, Myanmar Plaza, Level-2 | 09 250 141 330

Central Hotel | 6th Floor, 335-337 Bogyoke Aung San Road Pabedan Tsp | 01 241 007 Ext. 533

Genky Physiotherapy Clinic | 285 Bo Aung Kyaw Road (middle block), Kyauktada Tsp. | 098 615 036

Mizu Aoi Health & Beauty Center | No.14, Ground Floor, Block 19A, Boyar Nyunt Street, Dagon. Tsp

813 Hello I |59 & 63 Ground Floor, Seikta-thuka Street, Kyaukkmyaung, Tamwe Tsp. | 01 50 070, 097 308 1713

Hello II | 28 Maharsocial Street, Hledan, Kamaryut Tsp | 01 539 813

Iris | 570/A, Kaba Aye Pagoda Rd.,Ward (8)| 01 664918, 09 421 066 911

Magic House | (Rm 1/B), Bldg 16, Ariyta Maggin St., Ward (14), Yankin Tsp | 09 515 209 1

Spa Paragon | 51 (Rm 106), Shwe Hin Thar Tower (B), Pyay Rd., Ward (11) Hlaing Tsp| 01 507 344 Ext.112 09 526 164 2

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For the vast majority of the year it is best to dress light and airy in Myanmar’s warm, humid climate. However, in the cool season, from mid-October to mid-February, it can get surprisingly chilly at night especially in the more mountainous regions, such as inle Lake or Kyaik Hti Yo. The milder temperatures, also incidentally make shopping a much more pleasant experience.

So whether you are off to the Shan Highlands and need a jacket or want a shawl to show off at an evening dinner, take a sneak peak at MY Yangon’s guide to cool season shopping.

JacketsNot appropriate for the heat of Yangon even on the coolest evenings but a must have if you are heading out to the hills where temperatures can approach freezing early in the year. Yangon has a surprising amount of retail outlets stocking and selling jackets so you are sure to find a size and style you like.

Ko Tin Kyi Jerkin shop

No. 496 East B Bogyoke Aung San Market

Prices: 9,000 to 25,000 KyatsNugent Asia Co. Ltd.

01 665 929

MM Fashion

L-10,2nd floor, Add; D2A, Thazin Street,9 Quatar, Yuzana Plaza, Mingala Taung Nyunt Tsp

gold Yacht Co. Ltd.

No.82, Twin Thin Tai Wun U Tun Nyo Street01 684 126

Tell international Co. Ltd.

Add: No. 113, Ananda Thuriya Street, 10mile, Saw Bwar Gyi Gone Ward, Insein Tsp01 647 546

sweatersSimilarly to jackets, a sweater is very rarely needed in Yangon but essential if you are heading up country in December or January.

stuff Collection

Add-1/2/3, 2nd fl, Yuzana Plaza,Mingala Taung Nyunt Tsp

01 860 0111 Ext: 2073

Ma Aye Khine sweater shop

No. 697, East B Bogyoke Aung San MarketPrices: 9,000 to 25,000 Kyats


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Long sleeve shirts and Trousers

Long sleeves and full length trousers are not only a warmer in the cooler evenings; they are also the first line of defense against those pesky biting insects. So even if it isn’t that cold, if you are going to be near stagnant water then covering up is often a wise idea.

Long sleeve shirts and trousers can be bought in almost all clothes shops

gloves and HatsGloves are only really needed if you are heading far up into the hills, however, you do see then being worn to protect against arctic air conditioning on long bus journeys. Hats are likewise seldom needed to fend off the cold. However, they are often used to fend off the sun!

Bote sone (daw)

Rm 71, 1st Flr, Iron Market, Latha Tsp01 212 066 Ext.335, 09 730 31938

green Laurel Pharmaceutical Trading

189/195, Rm 4/B, 4th Flr, Pansodan Street,Pansoedan Office Tower, Kyauktada Tsp

01 391 569, 01 251 516, 01 391 120, 09 500 8329

Kant Kaw Pwint

Rm 75, 1st Flr, Iron Market, Latha Tsp01 212066 Ext.284, 01 202447,

09 73202447, 09 5077131, 09 5121736

Mee Pya Tite

12, 138th Street, Tarmwe Tsp09 43073837, 09 5016768

shawls and scarves Probably the most suitable accessories as the temperature gets a little cooler, are shawls and scarves, especially as they can be made out of light Myanmar cotton and decorated with wonderful traditional patterns. They are also very versatile and can be worn both as an item of practicality or fashion.

Ma Aye Khine sweater shop

No. 697, East B Bogyoke Aung San MarketPrices: 9,000 to 25,000 Kyats

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art galleryရနကနၿမ႕ေတာခနးမန႔နးတ ၃၅ လမး (အလယ) က ပနးချပခနးက ေရာကချခငးျဖစပါတယ။ ဝငေပါကမာ ဓန အမးေလးန႔၊ မနတခါးကေတာ သစသားျဖစတ မဒမတင သးၿပး တညေဆာကထားသလ မကႏာၾကကက မးေခာငးေတြက ဝါးပးဝါးန႔ ျပငဆငထားတာေတြ႕ရတယ။ အခနးဖြ႕ပစအတငး ပနးခကားေတြက ခတဆြထားၿပး အေပၚထပမာလညး ျပသထားတာျဖစလ႔ ႏစထပျပခနးလ႔ ေျပာလ႔ရပါတယ။ အဒ ပနးချပခနးမာပ ျပခနးတညေထာငသေတြက တစဥးျဖစသ ဥးေနမငးလတက ေမးျမနးခြငရခပါတယ။

ဧရာဝတဆတ နာမညရယ၊ အျပငအဆငဆနးတာ ေတြ႔ရလ႔ ေျပာျပပါဥး။

ဟတတယဗာ။ တကယေတာ ကယႏငငရ႕ အေငြ႕ အသကန႔ သဘာဝက ခစျမတႏးတာက ေဖာျပခင တာပါ။ ႐းရာက မေမတ သေဘာေပါဗာ။

ဘယအခနေလာကက စဖြငၿပး ဘယလဖြငျဖစခ တယဆတာ သခငပါတယ။

၂၀၁၄ ခႏစ၊ ဧၿပလက စဖြငခတာပါ။ ကၽြနေတာရယ၊ မခငခကခကခငရယ၊ ကမငးႏငရယ သငယခငး သးေယာကေပ ါငး ၿပး တညေထာငခ ၾကတာပါ ။

အရငက ျမနမာ႐းရာလကရကကနးထြက၊ လကမႈ အထညစစေတြ၊ အမတတရပစၥညးေတြ ေရာငးတ လပငနးႀကး ရခပါတယ။ အခေတာ အႏပညာပစၥညး၊ အႏပညာျပပြမနသမက အသားေပးေပးတ ျပခနး အငားလပငနးမာ ကယတငလညး ပါဝငခၾကပါတယ။


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Zaw Min Lay

ပနးချပပြက ဘယလစစဥၿပး ျပခရသလ။

ပနးခဆရာစ၊ အမးအစားစ ပစပါပဗာ။ ရနကန၊ မႏေလး၊ ေတာငငန႔ နယေပါငးစက ပနးခဆရာေတြရ႕ ပနးခကားေတြက စစညးၿပး ျပပြ လပေပးခရတာေတြ ရပါတယ။ လငယပနးခဆရာန႔ ဆရာႀကးေတြလညး ပါဝငခၾကပါတယ။ ဆရာႀကး ဥး၀ငးေဖရ႕ Solo Show န႔ ဆရာႀကး ဥးလြနးၾကြယရ႕ ပနးခကားအခ႕ေတာင တငခပါတယ။

အမတတရပြေတြေရာ ျပခတာေရာ ေျပာျပေပးပါဥး။

ေတာငႀကးျမ ႕က ပနးခဆရာ ကစငးမး ျမတရ႕ ပနးခကား ၆၀ ေကာပါတ ေဒၚေအာငဆနးစၾကည အသက ၆၉ ႏစေျမာက ေမြးေန႔အထမးအမတ ပနးချပပြ၊ ၿငမးခမးေရးေန႔ ပနးချပပြ၊ ကြယလြနသ မဂ ၢဇငးသ႐ပေဖာ ပနးခ ဆရာႀကးေတြ ျဖစတ ဆရာဝသန၊ ဆရာစတး၊ ဆရာေမာငေမာငသက၊ ဆရာတငေမာငျမငတ ႔ရ႕ ျမႇားနတေမာင မဂၢဇငး သ႐ပေဖာပနးချပပြ။ ျပခနး တစႏစျပည ႏစပတ လည ပနးချပပြေတြ ရခပါတယ။

မၾကာေသးခငက ျမနမာႏငငရ႕ ေရေဘးအတြက ပရဟတလပငနး ပါဝငခတယဆတာ သရပါတယ။

ဟတပါတယ။ ခငမငရာခငမငေၾကာငး၊ နးစပရာ နးစပေၾကာငး ပးေပါငးၿပး ပနးခစာနယဇငး သ႐ပ ေဖာအဖြ႕လ႔ ေျပာရမယပနးခဆရာေတြန႔ ကၽြနေတာ တ႔ ေရေဘးအလပနးချပပြ ျပလပခၾကပါ တယ။ ဆရာႀကး ဥးလြနးၾကြယန႔ ဆရာဝငးေဖျမငတ႔ အပါ အဝင ပနးခဆရာ အေတာမားမား ေစတနာထကသန စြာ ပနးခကားေတြ တငေပးၾကပါတယ။ ကပ ၇ သနးေလာကတနတ ပနးခကားေတာင ၁ သနးန႔ ေရာငးခေပးပါတယ။ ပနးခကား ၂ဝဝ ေကာပါတယ။ အဒမာ ကပေငြ သနး ၂ဝဝ နးပါးေလာကရၿပး နာေရး ကညမႈအသငးက လႊေပးခပါတယ။ ဆရာမ ေဒၚသနး ျမငေအာင ကယတင လာေရာကလကခေပးပါတယ။

တစျခားအႏပညာပြေတြ စစဥျဖစခေသးလား။

အႏပညာန႔ပတသကသမ စစဥေပးဖ ႔ဝနမေလးပါ ဘး။ ပနးခပနးပ၊ ႐းရာလကမႈပညာ မကဘး၊ ဓာတပ ျပပြ၊ ဂတပြ၊ အႏပညာေကာငးဆငး Solo Show၊ အႏပညာသငတနးဖြငတာတ႔ စစဥ ေပးခပါတယ။ မႏစက ဂာမနက ဂတပညာရင သးေယာကန႔ ျမနမာ ႏငင၊ ယဥေကးမႈေကာငးက ေကာငးသားေလးေတြ ေပါငးၿပး ဂတပြလပခတာ သတရမတယ။


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BarsYangon has an expanding nightlife scene. No longer limited to hotel bars and beer stations, there is now an emerging variety of places to party and socialise.

50th Street: 9/13 50th Street | Popular with the Sports crowd

After-Work Bistro and Bar: 31, A1, Shan Gone Street, Sanchaung Tsp | 09 250 400 753, 09 420 239 822 | A new Sanchaung bar

Blind Tiger: | United condominium, Nawaday Street, Dagon Tsp | 01 388 488 | Open Monday - Saturday 5 pm till late open for lunch soon. Hidden speakeasy with cocktails and tapas.

Captain’s Bar: Savoy Hotel, 129, Dhammazedi Rd Yangon | 01-526 289, 01-526 298, 01-526 305 | Casual yet classic

Cask 81: No 81, Kabar Aye Pagoda Rd, Bahan Tsp | 09 254 083 981 | For whisky fanatics

Cocoon Bar: 22/24 Shinsawpu Road and corner of Baho Road | 01 500 863 | Great views

Club Rizzoli: Chatrium Hotel 42, Natmauk Road, Tamwe Tsp | 01 544 500 ext. 6243/6244 | Private party paradise with Cuban cigars, karaoke and well-stocked sake bar

Escape Gastro Bar: 31D Kan Yeik Thar Street, Mayangone Tsp | 01-660 737 | A Myanmar celebrity hang-out

Friendship Bar: No(135)corner ofDhamazedi Road & Inya Road | Cheap and cheerful

Gallery Bar: Shangri-La Hotel, Level 2, 223 Sule Pagoda Road | 01-242 828 ext. 6433 | Excellent Happy Hour with cosy corners

Gekko: 535 Merchant Street, Kyauktada Tsp, 4th Quarter | Stylish and discreet with excellent yet unusual Japanese inspiredcocktails

Ginki Kids: 18 Kambawza Road, Bahan Township, Yangon | Relaxed atmosphere with cold beers

Ice Bar: Sedona Hotel, 1 Kabar Aye Pagoda Road | Not quite frozen but getting there with dry ice and a lively in-house band

Kosan Bar-Branch 1: No.18, 1-A U Tun Lin Chan Street, Hledan, Kamayut Tsp | 01 503 232;

Branch 2: No.108, 19th Stree (Upper Block), Latha Tsp | 01 503 232 | Popular with tourists, expats and locals for their cheap and tasty mojitos

Lobby Lounge: Chatrium Hotel, Ground Level, 40 Natmauk Road, Tamwe Tsp | 01 544 500, ext. 6277 | A relaxed hotel lobby bar with garden views

Maru Wine Bar: 130, Shwe Taung Tan Street (Upper Block), Lanmadaw Tsp | 01- 122 156 8 , 09 420 308 350 | Small and interesting wine bar

Mojo: No.135, Corner of Innya and Dhammazedi Road | 01-511 418 | Popular spot with good events

Music Box: Yangon International Hotel Complex, No.330, Ahlone Road, Dagon Tsp | 01 730 364 33 | A karaoke bar with individual booths and dance-floor

Off the Beaten Track: Kandawgyi Natural Park, Karaweik Oo-Yin Kabar, Mingla Taung Nyunt Tsp | 09 541 6437 | A place to meet other travelers

Penguin: 12 Hlwa Gone Street, Tamwe Tsp | Local hangout with good, cheap cocktails

Pool Bar: Yangon International Hotel, 330 Ahlone Road, Dagon Tsp | Lively bar with pool tables-open late

Sapphire Lounge & Bar: Alfa Hotel, 41 Nawaday Street, Dagon Tsp | Discreet outside rooftop bar with great views

Space Bar: No.126 , Kabar Aye Pagoda Road, Bahan Tsp | Outdoor and indoor rooftop setting

Sports Bar: 20 Pearl Street, Mya Yeik Nyo Royal Hotel, Shwe Taung Gyar Ward (2), Bahan Tsp | 09 731 321 61 | Popular outdoor bar/restaurant

NightlifeBars &

Clubs


The Lab: 70A Shwegondaing Road, Bahan | 09- 250 018 200, 09- 250 537 979 | A new and busy bar/restaurant with excellent cocktails

The Phayre: 292 Upper Pansodan Road | 01 246 968 | A new, no-frills downtown bar

The Strand Bar: 92 Strand Rd | 01 243 377 ext. 92 | Historical spot with some excellent free happy hour snacks

The Water Library: Pyay Road/ Manawharri Road intersection | A swanky spot for high-end cocktails

The Yangon Sailing Club: 132 Inya Rd | Beautiful lake-views with live music. Only open to non-members on Fridays

Union Bar & Grill: 42 Strand Rd, Left corner of the Myanmar Red Cross Building, Botahtaung Tsp |

09-420 180 214 | Famous for their Moscow Mule cocktails and winner of Yangon’s Bartenders competition. Runs a good variety of events, including guest DJ nights

Vista Bar: 168, Corner of Shwegonedaing Road and Old Yay Tar Shay Street | Open-air rooftop bar with amazing views of Shwe Dagon Pagoda

Win Star Pub: 27/30, Corner of Sanchaung Street & Padonmar Street, Sanchaung Tsp | 01 505 467 | A Local and popular beer station with frosted beer glasses

ClubsCafé Liberal: Nat Mauk Street, Next to Chatrium Hotel | 01 551 774, 09 642 093 0 | For the last one standing!

Please check out "Plot Ahead" for Nightlife events

happening around Yangon.

Club Rizzoli: Chatrium Hotel 42, Natmauk Rd, Tamwe | 01544 500 ext. 6243/6244 | Private party paradise with Cuban cigars, karaoke, live percussion band and in-house DJ

DJ Bar: U Htun Nyein Street, Yangon | Loud music and a good up-town option

GTR: 37 Kaba Aye Pagoda Road | Popular with a young and hip crowd

JJ: Mingalar Mon Market, 4th Flr, Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp | Well-sized dance floor. Club is spread out over four floors. Entry fee (3000 kyats) includes a free drink

Pioneer: Yangon International Hotel, No.330, Ahlone Road | Fun crowd with pop/club music

The Music Club: Park Royal Hotel, Basement One, 33 Alan Pha Phaya Road, Dagon Tsp | 01 250 388 | Enjoy the occasional live band and themed nights; as well as regular nights with the in-house DJ

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