‘Iron Man 3''s Box Office Record Streak Runs All the Way to Myanmar
Source: Hollywood Reporter Film
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-05-09 05:20:10 -0700 | entertainment-news
After setting opening-day records across much of the Americas, Europe and Asia, the Disney tentpole also reached a high-water mark in one of the world's least developed film markets. There is apparently no market Robert Downey Jr .'s Iron Man...
Fight for Myanmar media exciting but risky
Source: Myanmar News
Pyinmana :: Myanmar | updated 2013-05-06 05:50:50 -0700 | entertainment-news
However, at the same time I feel more stressed due to severe competition within the media industry, and the strict self-censorship of editors caused by the worries of taking responsibility...President Thein Sein took office in March 2011 and has gradually...
Bourdain finds home on CNN
Source: The Journal Gazette
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-05-05 00:23:11 -0700 | entertainment-news
N Neal Justin Scripps Howard News Service Bourdain Renowned foodie Anthony Bourdain has traveled to some of the world's most exotic places, satisfying his appetite for both great meals and savory stories. He now finds himself in unexpected territory the...
‘My Beautiful Coma' Comes To Life (EXCLUSIVE)
Source: Variety
Mandalay :: Myanmar | updated 2013-05-01 14:30:43 -0700 | entertainment-news
Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini have come on board to direct indie romance-comedy My Beautiful Coma for Mandalay Vision and Rat Entertainment. Producers are Cathy Schulman and Matt Rhodes of Mandalay and Brett Ratner of Rat Entertainment...Springer Berman and...
Myanmar to Debut International Film Festival for Human Rights
Source: Hollywood Reporter Film
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-05-24 02:31:09 -0700 | entertainment-news
Human Rights Logo The inaugural event will be held in Yangon June 15-19, before going on a screening roadshow to 13 rural villages across the country. Once isolated, now rapidly opening to the West, the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar...
The lost world
Source: Financial Times
Mergui :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-19 11:46:16 -0700 | entertainment-news
IN Asian and Australian destinations The skipper of our 60ft ketch, Colona II, is Freddy Storheil, a 69-year-old Norwegian. Having sailed this archipelago more than 100 times over 17 years, his experience is precious in a place where knowledge is...
Lady Gaga: Influential Icon
Source: Celebrity Gossip
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-17 20:41:49 -0700 | entertainment-news
Though she has only been in the public eye for five years, Lady Gaga was voted the second most influential icon of the last decade. In a poll by Time Magazine, the Poker Face vixen lost to Burmese politician Aung...
Closing date for Myanmar's 2nd journalism awards nears
Source: Myanmar News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-17 03:56:25 -0700 | entertainment-news
For each category, journalists need to submit three copies of relevant news published between January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2012 or three DVDs of relevant video footage broadcasted between that period to the award selection committee: No.
Bow to the Chef: CNN's Anthony Bourdain Show Debuts Big
Source: Newsbusters
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-16 04:57:11 -0700 | entertainment-news
Washington Post TV reporter Lisa de Moraes joked in Tuesday's paper: CNN may have figured its way out of its ratings problem...The debut of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain's show Parts Unknownattracted 747,000 viewers at 9 p.m. Sunday 282,000 of them...
China holds mass water battle
Source: The Daily Star
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-15 20:33:55 -0700 | entertainment-news
People drench each other with water in the streets of Jinghong in southwestern China's Yunnan province on April 15, 2013 as part of an annual Buddhist-inspired festival. China: Thousands of people armed with plastic water guns and buckets battled on...
Photos: Hooked on Myanmar
Source: CNN
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-12 07:15:47 -0700 | entertainment-news
A woman sits in her shop lined with mannequins in a shopping center in Mawlamyine. A line of umbrellas sits in front of an old building in Bagan...There are 135 official ethnic groups and seven ethnic minority states in Myanmar,...
The Irrawaddy First ever daily newspapers record strong sales
Source: Myanmar News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-04 11:08:51 -0700 | entertainment-news
First ever daily newspapers record strong sales For more than 50 years the press in Burma has been heavily censored. An employee of Thida Nilar, a newspaper distributor in Rangoon, told The Irrawaddy sales of four newspapers--The Voice, Shwe Naing...
Myanmar's once-proud film industry a flicker of its former self
Source: Los Angeles Times
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-02 09:22:14 -0700 | entertainment-news
April 2, 2013 D own a back road in northern Yangon, a sagging teak house fights back the jungle. On the gate, barely noticeable under the weeds, rusty ironwork spells out "A1 Film." Myanmar's first movie studio, once known as...
Natalie Portman: Elie Wiesel Tribute Dinner Speaker!
Source: Just Jared
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2012-06-19 19:32:47 -0700 | travel-news
20 am Natalie Portman takes the stage at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's 2012 Elie Wiesel National Tribute dinner held at the Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center on Wednesday (April 18) in Washington, DC. The 30-year-old actress spoke for...
Myanmar pop stars brace for lyrical revolution
Source: Myanmar News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2012-05-26 15:28:40 -0700 | travel-news
With a flamboyant wardrobe and a diva's voice, she's seen as Myanmar's Lady Gaga -- a rare pop star in a country where years of isolation have left musicians reliant on borrowed foreign tunes.Singing Burmese translations of international hits like...
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