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Manaw Exhibition and Sale festival will be held at Sitarpu Manaw Compound from 5th January to 11th Janurary, 2008 with Manaw Traditional Festival.
60th Anniversary Manaw Festival is held in honor of Nats (traditional family gods known as Karai Kasang) to ensure good weather for a bumper harvest or to ward off danger and general ill fortune. There are traditional dances by various Kachin groups, tug-of-war matches and bean-bag fighting games and food galore, sold at makeshift stalls. It is the most colorful gathering you could have witnessed anywhere, with men and women in the traditional formal costumes, headgear, ornaments, jewelry and ceremonial weapons.
Manaw Exhibition and Sale festival has held in every 4 years and it is the third time. It is operated by Alpha Group Co., Ltd. with the purpose of company products promotion and direct selling to their customers.
So we invite you to come Manaw Exhibition and Sale festival while explore to Manaw Traditional Festival if you have plan to visit Myanmar on this period.

New Year sale festival will be held in famous Bogyoke Market (Scott Market) from 26th December to 30th December for 5 days.
Variety of commodities including textile fabrics, cosmetic, latest fashioned ready-made clothes, food stuffs, herbal medicine, pharmaceutical, garments for ladies and gents, varieties of shoes and fancy wears for the teenagers are available.
In this year, companies will promote their new products with demonstration and other entertainment will be included if there any sponsors.

Laykyun Setkyar, the biggest standing Buddha image all over the world is situated in Khatakan Taung village in Monywa, Sagaing Division.
Monywa lies in the heart of the Chindwin Valley and 136 km northwest of Mandalay. It is one of the tourist attraction sites which possessed the most famous places like Thanboddhay Paya, the solid section of the monument is said to enclosed 7350 relics and other holy materials, Poe-win Taung caves, a place where Myanmar�fs ancient sculptures, mural paintings and natural sand-stones can be studied in one spot at the same time, Boddhi-tataung (1000 Buddhas), a grove of banyan trees each with a Buddha image at its feet and Kyaukka village, known for its own style of decent lacquer-ware.
In future, Laykyun Setkyar Buddha Image becomes one of the attraction sites of Monywa. It has been constructing since 1996 and will celebrate opening ceremony on 21st February, 2008 (full moon day of Tabohdwe). The total measurement of image is 424 ft with 380 ft high image on 44 ft throne.
We pleasingly invite you to explore to the biggest standing Buddha image in Monywa while you are visiting Myanmar in year 2008.

We would like to introduce about Belle Resort; new resort in Chaungtha will open in mid-December.
The resort sits on a 4.5-acre swathe of land along the beach. The project is 95 percent complete and some of the facilities have been open since October 2006. When it is finished the hotel will have a total 56 rooms and will potentially hold 150 guests.
They opened two family bungalows, 12 deluxe and superior rooms in October 2006 and also opened another 12 double rooms in December. Facilities at the resort include a karaoke lounge, swimming pool, gym, spa and fitness centre.
Room rates at the resort vary from Kyat 36,000~60,000 for locals and US$ 45~75 for foreigners.

An amusement park at the National Landmark Garden in Pyin Oo Lwin will open in December operated by Htoo Trading Company.
It is located on four acres of land on the southern end of the 54-acre National Landmark Garden near National Kandawgyi Park, opened on 15^th December, 2006. It will have five entertainment centers and first open three in December. They are trying to finish the entrance gate, like Disneyland, indoor game centre and merry-go-round for the opening.
Chinese experts surveyed the ground and drew plans for the amusement park. Game machine suppliers and an engineering group also came to the construction site from Chine. But the overall design was made by their Burmese architect. They plan to gradually expand the park in future and celebrate the garden�fs first anniversary but have not been confirmed yet.