The popular actor and comedian passes away in Yangon, aged 59.
The Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards, a local version of Hollywood’s Oscars, celebrated its return to Rangoon on Sunday night after four years in the new capital Naypyidaw.
Some 70,000 Burmese embraced the country’s first international concert on Sunday night when American star Jason Mraz joined top domestic artists in Rangoon to raise awareness about human trafficking.
On Friday, Aung San Suu Kyi will have the unique opportunity to select the actors to play her father and mother in a film about their lives.
Action movie star Jackie Chan will meet Burmese officials in Rangoon and Mandalay this week to support children who are recovering from human trafficking experiences, says UNICEF.
(Mizzima) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Ambassador Derek Mitchell, who is tipped to be nominated U.S. ambassador to Burma, attended a screening of “The Lady,” a bio-pic of Aung San Suu Kyi, for Washington, D.C., moviegoers on Monday.
