We at Myanmar Today are always striving to help our visitors fulfill their need. We realize that many of our visitors come to our website to see the current foreign currency exchange rate. For those Burmese as well as foreign visitors, it is difficult to find the current up to date exchange rate between Myanmar …
We at Myanmar Today run a small poll a few months ago to our visitors asking about their idea of travelling or visiting to Myanmar (Burma). Under all those bad news coverage about Myanmar, and call for travel ban to Myanmar, we would like to know the idea of our visitors about this issue. Therefore, …
Warning from the Ministry of Health On 31 July, Myanmar official news papers report about fake eggs entering Myanmar through border from neighbouring countries. According to official announcement from Ministry of Health, fake eggs made by chemical means are appearing in markets along the border areas as well as some markets inside Myanmar. These eggs …
Tens of thousands are gathering in Taung Pyone (Taung Byone) near Mandalay to celebrate the annual nat pwe (festival for spirits). The week-long festival starts this week with as many as 100,000 believers gathering to celebrate in the grand festival for the nats (spirits). There are a number of nat pwes (spirit festivals) in Myanmar. …
Myanmar health officials have confirmed the country’s ninth H1N1 patient. The last two H1N1 infected patients were coming back from abroad. One is coming back from India while the other is coming back from Malaysia. All of the H1N1 patients are doing well. Three H1N1 patients had already discharged from the hospital while six are …
There are a number of lotteries in Myanmar (Burma), both legal and illegal ones. The legal lottery in Myanmar is the famous, nearly century old Aung-bar-lay Government lottery. The Aung-bar-lay lottery is open once every month. Tickets are priced at 100 kyats each. The grand prize is thirty million kyats while there are a number …
Myanmar (Burma) Ministry of public health has announced that there are two more confirmed cases of H1N1 influenza in Myanmar, raising the total H1N1 infection in Myanmar to six. The two new patients are 42 year old man and his three year old daughter coming back from Australia on 16 July by Thai Airway. According …
Arzarni Day Today is the 62nd years after General Aung San and the cabinet ministers were assassinated. On the morning of 19 July 1947, a group of gun men stormed into the cabinet meeting room at the Secretariat Office in Rangoon. Together with General Aung San, six other cabinet members were assassinated. Killed together with …
Myanmar official media has announced that there are now four H1N1 infected patients in Myanmar. The official media announcement stressed that all of them are coming back from abroad. A 22 year old woman who came back from on July 12 from abroad by Thai Airways TG 305 was the latest patient to be confirmed …
Mandalay has a number of good Indian restaurants which sell delicious chapati, puri, dhals, roti, chicken curry, mutton curry, potato curry and various vegetable curries. Most of these Indian restaurants are clusttered around 27th Street, between 80th and 81st streets. Most Indian restaurants that sell delicious but cheap Indian food are either open air restaurants …
