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Myanmar to hold first ASEAN film festival: report
2007-12-03
Military-run Myanmar will hold the first ASEAN film festival in Yangon next week to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 10-nation regional grouping, a local weekly journal said Sunday. The December 6-9 festival will show seven films, including Myanmar's love-story "Mystery of Snow," said The Voice. Myanmar joined the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 1997, which includes Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. The Voice said Brunei, Cambodia and Laos would not participate in the upcoming film festival. Myanmar, under military rule since 1962, has proved a major headache for the budding democracies of Southeast Asia, who have been admonished by the West for failing to press for democratic reforms. The ruling junta is under global pressure over its deadly crackdown on peaceful anti-government protests in Yangon in late September. At least 15 people were killed and 3,000 arrested in the clampdown.
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