Watch a girl tie her long hair into a traditional Burmese hair bun style. Footage shows the youngster sitting on the dirt ground while she twisted her 3ft long tresses into a knot on top of her ...

While many of the elements found in the music and dance traditions of Burma find earlier counterparts in ancient India, Burmese music and dance styles also show clear parallels to traditions in other ...

Hsain Wain refers to an ensemble of instruments which include the pa’ wain, ci wain, maun hsain, hneh, pa’ ma, sa khun, hcau’loun pa’, si toh, ling win, and si wah. In the hsain wain, the pa’ wain is ...

There has been a growing interest in ancient costumes in Vietnam over recent years. The Cao Lan, one of two branches of the San Chay living in a number of northern mountain and midland provinces, ...

His themes, too, are Burmese, Buddhist and even traditional. He is a scholar who has drunk deep of ancient Burma — of Pali, Pyu, Old Mon and Old Burmese. Yet few of his poems are burdened with ...

Malaysia’s past designs have resembled objects like the KLCC Twin Towers, a nasi lemak dish, a traditional fishing boat ... an outfit inspired by a Tuk-Tuk (the famous three-wheeled auto rickshaw of ...

But I think that if you will listen to some of it a few times—and the Burmese Folk and Traditional Music record in the Ethnic Folkways Library offers a good sampling—you will discover that ...

For fashion designers working on the outfits of beauty queens, there is a lot more to consider than just a dress being a ...

The Rohingya were once counted as a part of the Mrauk-U (Mrohaung) kingdom in Arakan which stood independent of both the Burman kingdoms in the Irrawaddy delta and central Burma as well as Bengal ...

It is widely said that, in Myanmar, Facebook is the internet, so when the military asked for it to be blocked for the sake of "stability" it sent a shockwave through the country. As Myanmar's ...