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Myanmar model and actress Melody will be signing R & B songs in a group album with popular singers like J-Me, Yan Yan Chan, Bo Lay, G-Tone, etc. There are altogether 11 singers on this group album, and it’s produced by Melody herself. The album will be released some time this year.
Source: ICON [...]

Myanmar Blog Academy Award Winners 2009 was announced recently and the winners are:
Best General Blog: http://burmesebooks.wordpress.com
Best Translation Blog: http://kopeter.blogspot.com
Best Community Blog: http://www.crazyvilla.net/
Best Literature Blog: http://page-28.blogspot.com
Best Life Stories Blog: http://mysterysnow.blogspot.com
Best Education Blog: http://myanmarsar.zaung.net
Best Charity Blog: http://www.everyoneit.com
Best News & Politics Blog: http://photayokeking.org
Best Religion Blog: http://www.sitagustar.net
Best Technology Blog: http://www.nyinaymin.com

The Ultimate FarmVille Guru Shares the Secret Tactic You Can Use Legally and Dominate Your Way to the Top of Facebook, Growing Your Farm at Light Speed.
FarmVille is a great place to go to escape the rigors of everyday life. You can get back to nature and enjoy the peace and tranquility that comes from [...]

A city in central China is advocating a more humane way of killing pigs to improve the taste of the pork, ordering they get up to a day of rest and relaxation before they go to the slaughterhouse.
(AFP/File/Peter Parks)
SHANGHAI (AFP) – A city in central China is advocating a more humane way of killing [...]

The following Myanmar Celebrity Couples atttend the Obimin vitamin event held last month at Chatrium Hotel, Yangon, Myanmar.

R Zarni and One
Chaw Su Khin and Aung Zaw Lin
Chan Kyaw Kyaw Paing and Zin Zin Zaw Myint
Aung Bo Oo and Hayman Aung Aung
Picture: Ray of Light Journal

May Sweet’s latest song collection titled “Sweet Melody of the Heart” is coming to a music store near you. Here’s the DVD cover of the album.
The album will be released in Myanmar this Sunday on the 7th March, 2010.

Myanmar Actor Nine Nine and Sandi Cho were seen with their baby girl at an Obimin vitamin event.
Picture: Ray of Light Journal

Myanmar celebrities without makeup. See if you could guess who they are.

Issuance of New Passport and Renewal of Passport will not be available from 1st April, 2010 to 30th April, 2010 due to the preparation needed to issue new machine readable passports (MRP)
More info can be found at the Embassy of the Union of Myanmar, Singapore website.

Business people in Myanmar are referring to Soe Myat Thuzar as The Ads Queen because she has been doing almost every advertisement in Myanmar targeted for women. It looks like she appears on 7 out of 10 billboards in the downtown Yangon.
The above picture is taken from an Advertisement she did [...]

A candid photo of Myanmar celebrities in Chaung Thar. Have fun guessing their names. Two people in the first pic are actually males, but dressed as females.

Source: Yahoo! Gallery - Look at them now!

Soe Myat Thuzar told the Ray of Light Journal that even though she and her ex-husband are no longer together, they are still good friends. She is planning to visit the USA next month from 1st of March to the 8th of March. When asked where she will be staying, she said, “We [...]

The hollywood’s golden couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie may be parting ways soon but this Myanmar celebrity couple Sai Sai Kham Hlaing and Wut Hmone Shwe Yee are still going strong after being together for 2 years (and maybe more). They were photographed together for an advertisment for a clothing label in the above [...]

Due to a popular demand, here are more pictures of your Myanmar novelist, Lun Htar Htar and her family.

Myanmar actor Nay Toe is writing an auto-biography which will be published soon. He told us that his auto-biography will focus more on his entertainment career and his life as an actor rather than his personal affairs. The book will have many pictures from his life which many people have not seen [...]

Myanmar Singer May Sweet’s father, U Khin Maung Nyunt, passed away yesterday on 16th February, 2010 at 12:48 pm local time in Yangon, Myanmar. Our deepest condolences to May Sweet and her loved ones. May Sweet will be flying back to Yangon this Friday to be with her family during this sad time.
May [...]

It’s great to see Myanmar bloggers taking initiatives to compile data and statistics about Myanmar blogosphere.
First, we have Top 50 Myanmar Blogs compiled by us.

And now, a Myanmar pro-blogger Nyi Lynn Seck has compiled findings from Myanmar Blogger Survey 2009.

View more presentations from Nyi Lynn Seck.

The greatest thing you’ll ever learn
Is to love and be loved in return.
~ From “Unforgettable with Love” by Natalie Cole

Year 2010 is the Year of the Tiger by the Chinese calendar.
Happy Chinese New Year to those who celebrate it!

Picture from Wikipedia
Bogyoke (General) Aung San was born on this day (13 February) 95 years ago in 1915. If he was alive, he would be celebrating his 95 years old birthday today. He is history now, but he will live on in our hearts forever.

Khant Si Thu, Khin Moh Moh Aye - A Myar Hnit Ma Thet Sine Thaw Thu

Ye Aung - Academy Shock

Moh Moh Myint Aung - Myint Mo Htet Ka Thayaphu
Pictures credit: Planet

The winners for 2008 Myanmar Academy Award are:
Best supporting actress: Khin Moh Moh Aye
Best supporting actor: Ye Aung
Best actress: Moh Moh Myint Aung
Best actor: Khant Si Thu
Best director: Nyi Nyi Tun Lwin
Best film: A myar hnit ma thet sine taw thu
Thanks to ToMMyGiRL for the news.

Myanmar Actor and Comedian Jolly Swe passed away last Friday 5th February, 2010 around 4:25pm at the Yangon General Hospital due to liver disease. Born in 1930, he was 80 years old at the time of death. May you rest in peace, Jolly Swe. You will be remembered for all the laughters [...]

Update: The results are in for 2008 Myanmar Academy Award. Find out who won.
While waiting for the result for the Myanmar Academy Award 2008 which is being held in Nay Pyi Taw tonight (6 Feb 2010), here are some of the related posts to keep you busy. And have fun predicting [...]

Myanmar actress Eaindra Kyaw Zin is predicted to be the busiest actress in 2010. Apparently, her schedule is packed, and she is planned to star in a new movie every month.

BEIJING: A nine-year-old girl has given birth to a healthy child in northeast China, making it possibly the first case of childbirth at such a young age.
The mother and the 2.75kg baby are doing well after the caesarean operation at a hospital in Changchun in Jilin province.
The Changchun-based City Evening News reported the girl’s parents [...]

Myanmar Academy Awards ceremony is only a few days away, and everyone in the industry is getting excitied and nervous at the same time. One of them is Soe Myat Thuzar. The actress made a big comeback in 2008 and is tipped to win an academy award this year.

Visitors look at a Mercedes-Benz SL-600 covered by Swarovski’s 300,000 gold shadow crystal pieces, designed by Japanese automotive accessories company D.A.D at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, east of Tokyo, Japan, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010.
(AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

Sultan Kosen of Turkey, 27, left, and He Pingping of China, 21, attempt to shake hands during an event organized by the Guinness World Records in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. The towering Turk, Kosen, is the tallest man walking the planet with a height of 246.5 cm ( 8 feet 1 inch) and [...]

Myat Thaw Maung is the only son of Soe Myat Nandar and Phyo Gyi. He is cute, charming and very good looking. Definitely inherited good genes from his celebrity parents.

As you can see from the design, we have introduced 4 new pages at shwedarling.com. They group various categories and posts together to provide you with an easy access to specific areas that you may be interested in.

News & Features
Lifestyle
Entertainment
Style
Knowledge

Mary Win is a Burmese-American Musician. Born in Bangkok, Thailand, Mary Win and her parents migrated to the USA a few months after she was born. Although she can no longer speak, read or write in Burmese language, she acknowledges her ethnicity and takes great pride in her heritage. Her YouTube channel [...]

According to reports Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are set to go their separate ways.
The Daily Mail reported that the Hollywood power couple, known as Brangelina, are said to have been in talks with lawyers to agree to a deal to split their $US330 million fortune.
Allegedly the pair signed legal papers this week revealing they [...]

Myanmar Academy Awards Ceremony for movies in 2008 will be held at Nay Pyi Taw on February 6, 2010.
Source: Ray of Light Journal

It was announced on 8th January 2010 that Myanmar ICT Awards will be given out annually. For the year 2009, there will be prizes for three different categories; Mobile Application, Website and Education Project. The prizes that you can win are:

Mobile Application of the Year (1 prize)
Website of the Year (1 prize)
Education Project [...]

Picture of Myanmar singers taken in London a few days ago. See if you can name the singers correctly.

2010 Calendar Featuring Thanda Hlaing

2010 Calendar Featuring Thazin

2010 Calendar Featuring Thet Mon Myint

2010 Calendar Featuring Thinzar Wint Kyaw

2010 Calendar Featuring Wut Hmone Shwe Yee

2010 Calendar Featuring Yadanar Bon

2010 Calendar Featuring Melody

2010 Calendar Featuring Moe Hay Ko

2010 Calendar Featuring Moe Yu San

2010 Calendar Featuring Nandar Hlaing

2010 Calendar Featuring Phwe Phwe

2010 Calendar Featuring Soe Myat Nandar and Myat Thaw Maung

2010 Calendar Featuring Aye Myat Thu

2010 Calendar Featuring Chit Thu Wai

2010 Calendar Featuring Eaindra Kyaw Zin

2010 Calendar Featuring Htun Eaindra Bo

2010 Calendar Featuring Jenny

2010 Calendar Featuring May Kabyar

Fireflies - Owl City

Whatcha Say - Jason Derulo

Bad Romance - Lady Gaga

Down - Jay Sean

Memories (Featuring Kid Cudi) - David Guetta

Rock That Body (Album Version) - Black Eyed Peas

Morning After Dark (Featuring Nelly Furtado & SoShy) - Timbaland

Empire State Of Mind - Jay-Z

I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho) - Pitbull

Party In The [...]

Soe sisters, Soe Myat Thuzar, Soe Myat Nandar and Soe Myat Kalyar shooting a Myanmar TV Commercials. The sisters are hard at work and looking fabulous.

Myanmar actress Htun Eaindra Bo and her family are flying to Singapore to celebrate her son upcoming birthday. Born in 2006, he is turning 4 years old this year. The actress says this trip is a special birthday treat for her son, and they will mainly be visiting places in Singapore that he [...]

The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don’t. But, in the end, they’re the people you always come home to. Sometimes it’s the family you’re born into and sometimes it’s the one you make for yourself.

They are May Kabyar’s pretty eyes.

Guess which Myanmar celebrity the eyes belong to?
Hint: She was at the peak of her career while pregnant with her first daughter. She is a petite “nyo-chaw”.
The answer will be revaled tomorrow.

Due to a popular demand, here are some more candid photos of Myanmar celebrity Wut Hmone Shwe Yee.

Happy New Year to all.
Here is our new year present to all shweDarling.com readers. We’d like to share with you one of our favorite motivational poems of all times; The Victor by C.W. Longenecker. May this poem motivate and inspire you in the new year!
If you think you are beaten, [...]

Wine Su Khine Thein went to Bangkok last month and here are some of the pictures of her taken during the trip.

Wut Hmone Shwe Yee in her white bathrobe.

We at shweDarling.com want to wish you all a Merry Christmas. Have fun and enjoy the Holiday Season.

A total of 12 Myanmar movies were shown in cinemas in the year 2008. The following is a list of Myanmar movies eligible for the Myanmar Academy Awards 2008. The list was prepared by The Ray of Light Journal. For the leading actor role, Yan Aung, Kyaw Ye Aung, Khant Si Thu [...]

Source: People Magazine

Sone Thin Par will be performing at a live conert in San Francisco, CA, USA next month. The details are:
Date: 9 Jan 2010
Time: Food Fest - 3pm - 10pm
Concert - 6pm - 10pm
Tickets are sold at $30 per person.
Listen to Sone Thin Par’s music videos [...]

Miss World, Gibraltar’s Kaiane Aldorino, center, claps hands after she was crowned during the Miss World pageant in Johannesburg, South Africa, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
Johannesburg Gibraltar’s Kaiane Aldorino won the 2009 Miss World crown at a glittering ceremony here on Saturday, defeating 111 contestants from across the world but Miss India [...]

Source: myanmarcelebrity.com

Myanmar Model Myat Noe Chaint passed away last Sunday 6th December 2009 at the Royal Asia (Asia Taw-win) Hospital in Yangon and left behind her beloved family members, friends and fans. The model was only 24 years old at the time of death and it was due to a severe Tuberculosis (TB) disease. [...]

Eaindra Kyaw Zin went to USA 3 weeks ago with her mom for a short holiday. She arrived back to Yangon on 1st December. She told the Ray of Light journal that she bought more shoes than clothes while in USA.
Source: Ray of Light journal

May Sweet and the Sweet Melody from the heart Live Concert will be hosted on 16 December 2009 at 6.30pm.

In this photo taken Monday, Nov. 23, 2009 residue is seen on the bottom of an electric iron at the home of Mary Jo Coady, in Methuen, Mass. Coady says an image of Jesus Christ that she sees in the pattern on the bottom of the iron, which she first noticed on Sunday, has [...]

Myanmar Actress Thet Mon Myint’s face was injured during a recent movie shooting last month. It happened during a movie scene when she was running through a minefield, bullets flying around her. Although the injury was minor and only affected a tiny part of her face, the director Tin Than Oo said they [...]

Only You is a Korean television series produced and broadcast by SBS in early 2005. It is the only Korean drama shot in Italy. It is currently showing in Myanmar. It was first aired in South Korea starting June 4, 2005. Watch Only You online at mysoju.

Main Cast
[...]

Bread Shoes by R&E Praspaliauskas

The shoes come in a variety of designs and dough recipes and are not wearable on foots.
You can buy them here.

Here are candid and casual photos of Myanmar celeberity Chit Thu Wai. Although she didn’t have makeup on, she still looks cute.

After performing in Perth and Melbourne (Australia), May Sweet is now back in Yangon for a visit. She arrived in the country on 16 November 2009 and is planning to stay for 3 weeks. She says her main reason for her visit was to check on her dad’s health but she is [...]

Surgeons in Australia have successfully separated conjoined twin girls during a complex 25-hour operation.
The girls, who are almost three years old, were joined at the head and shared brain tissue and blood vessels.
Trishna and Krishna were born in Bangladesh, but after their mother gave them to an orphanage, an Australian charity arranged to bring them [...]

Myanmar actor Lu Min and his wife Khin Sabei Oo are expecting their 2nd child. Their first daughter, Ayeyarwady Lu Min, was born in September 2008. Khin Sabei Oo is now 5 months pregnant and the couple is looking forwards to welcoming a new addition to their family in 2010. [...]

Nine Nine and Sandi Cho are overjoyed to be expecting their first baby daughter. The baby is expected to arrive at the end of this month (November 2009).
Update:
Sandi Cho has given birth to a baby girl at the Pan Hlaing International Hospital and both baby and mummy are doing well.

Darlin Lin is a Myanmar stage performancer and traditional dancer who always looked elegant on stage in Myanmar traditional attire but she gave an incredibly different performance at a Myanmar Concert held in Perth last month. She received a lot of negative comments after the video was uploaded onto Youtube, a popular video [...]

A coffee shop featuring the world of an animated version of the popular South Korean TV drama series ”Winter Sonata” recently opened on the rooftop terrace of Matsuzakaya department store in Tokyo’s Ginza shopping district, attracting numerous female fans of the drama.
Visitors to the cafe ”Hajimete” (first time) are able [...]

Myanmar Actress Eaindra Kyaw Zin has left for USA with her mom on November 9 and she will be staying there for 3 weeks. She will be performing at two stage shows which are to be held in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The actress jokingly said she is going there for a [...]

The Top 50 Myanmar Blogs page has been updated today (11 November 2009). There are quite a bit of changes in Alexa ranking for most websites. For those interested, here is a nice explanation on Alexa Traffic Rankings.
We will try to update the list again in 3 - 4 months because Alexa [...]

Important Scholarship Opportunity for MAIDS Applicants From Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Myanmar!
Asia Pacific Scholarship Consortium (APSC)
Application Deadline: December 1st, 2009
A Leading Hub in Southeast Asia for International Development Studies
The International Development Studies programme is the first of its kind at Chulalongkorn University and quite unique in the Greater Mekong Sub-region. This programme is one of [...]

Myanmar actor Nyi Nanda aka Nanda is getting married to his longtime girlfriend Nan Htike Aung. The couple has known each other for 13 years and has been going out for 11 years. Their wedding reception will be held tomorrow (November 11) in Yangon, Myanmar. Nanda has been in the Myanmar Entertainment [...]

Loon Htar Htar was once a very well-known Myanmar novelist. But she left behind her fame and migrated to the USA UK and is now leading a happy family life with her husband and her daughter.

Myanmar Singer Me Me Khae has welcomed her first child with her husband Htoo L Lin, who is also a well-known Myanmar Singer. The couple are very excited, and mom and baby are doing great.
Source: Ray of Light Journal

Meet Me Halfway - Black Eyed Peas with

Vanessa Amorosi - This Is Who I Am

50 Cent - Baby By Me ft. Ne-Yo

Jay Z - Run This Town ft Rihanna & Kanye West HQ

Sexy Bitch (feat. Akon) - David Guetta

Snoop Dogg-Gangsta Luv Ft The Dream

Party In The U.S.A. - Miley Cyrus

Bodies - Robbie Williams

Cascada - [...]

Myanmar Actress and Singer Sandi Myint Lwin celebrated her 23rd birthday a few months ago. Enjoy the pictures!

Soe Myat Nandar and Phyo Gyi’s son Myat Thaw Maung celebrated his 3rd birthday last month.

စံဇာဏီဘုိ - အခ်စ္ေဗဒင္
စံဇာဏီဘုိ - အခ်စ္လကၡဏာ

Our deepest condolences to Ne Ko Ye’s family.
He was a memorable writer and he will be missed. Read one of his very popular comedy novel, Zoot and remember him for his writing.

Lazy Club show in NYC was held on Oct. 3, 2009. Here are some of the pictures of Myanmar Singers May Sweet, Me Me Win Phe, Chit Kaung, R Zarni, Thazin, etc taken from the show.

A rose in blue : An employee of Japan’s beverage giant Suntory holds a single genetically modified blue rose at a press conference in Tokyo.
(AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)

Sai Sai Kham Hlaing and his girlfriend Wut Hmone Shwe Yee were looking innocent in their school uniforms in a poster advertisement. So much so it brings back memories of your own school days.

The answer to the previous “Guess who” question, it’s Eaindra Kyaw Zin!

ဆရာသမားတစ္ေယာက္ကေျပာဖူးတာေပါ့ . ..
Ideal Marriage ဆိုတဲ့ စံျပဳေလာက္တဲ့ အိမ္ေထာင္ေရးမ်ိဳးရခ်င္ရင္တဲ့ . .. .
သူေျပာတဲ့ စံငါးခုနဲ႔ ကိုက္ေရြးတဲ့
သူေျပာတာက . ..
1- loving each other
2- mature brain
3- proper income
4- good health and
5- acceptable both sides
1.loving each other
ဒါကေတာ့ရွင္းပါတယ္။ တစ္ေယာက္နဲ႔ တစ္ေယာက္ ခ်စ္ျမတ္ႏိုးျခင္း ၊ အျပန္အလွန္ ေလးစား နားလည္မႈေပးျခင္းတို႔ ရွိမွသာ ေပ်ာ္ရြင္စရာေကာင္းတဲ့ အိမ္ေထာင္ေရးမ်ိဳးကို ရမွာပါ။
2.mature brain
ကိုယ္အိမ္ေထာင္ဘက္က အေတြးအေခၚ ရင့္က်က္တဲ့သူမ်ိဳးျဖစ္မွသာ တစ္ေယာက္နဲ႔ တစ္ေယာက္နားလည္မႈ ကူညီမႈေတြ ေပးႏိုင္မွာပါ။ စိတ္ဓာတ္မရင့္က်က္တဲ့သူ တစ္ေယာက္ဟာ ဘာကိုမဆို အေလးအနက္မေတြးတတ္ ၊ ျပသနာေတြကိုလည္း မွန္ကန္တဲ့ နည္းလမ္းနဲ႔ [...]

Guess who is this tom boy? Hint: She is one of the most popular Myanmar actresses and she is a single.
The result will be revealed tomorrow at the same time.

Myanmar female rock singer Phyu Phyu Kyaw Thein sang a song in English titled “I’m waiting for you” at a Nargis Charity Show.

Myanmar DVD Video “Maung” directed by Zin Yaw Maung Maung, starring in lead roles by Eaindraw Kyaw Zin and Nay Toe is now showing at the cinemas in Yangon, Myanmar. It is actually a DVD video rather than a box officmovie, but it has been granted permission to show in cinemas using a video [...]

Click on the image to enlarge
Shwedagon Pagoda, Yangon, Myanmar

SINGAPORE: Former Miss Singapore World Ris Low was back in court on Tuesday and ordered by a district judge not to go into a shopping mall unaccompanied by a family member.
In a review of her 24-month supervised probation, District Judge May Mesenas also reminded Ms Low to take her probation seriously.
It was revealed on Tuesday [...]

Myanmar actor Lwin Moe and his wife May Thu threw a birthday party for their younger daughter Yunn Wadi Lwin Moe at the Sedona Hotel last month. Many Myanmar celebrity babies and children attended the birthday party and had a great time celebrating Yunn’s 7th birthday.

Myanmar model, actress and singer Melody celebrated her 27th birthday with her celebrity brothers and sisters at the Sedona Hotel last month on 6th September 2009. The party is also to celebrate the release of her first debut album “Pa Hta Ma Sone A Chit Sone Toe” (To My First Love).
Source: Ray of Light [...]

(Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
Today (Oct 3, 2009) is the Full Moon Day of Thagingyut in Myanmar, also known as the Festival of Lights. shweDarling.com wishes all of you a very Happy Thagingyut.

House sang by Ah Nge, from his latest CD - Koe