Myanmar to fete 2013 with first public countdown
Myanmar will ring in the new year with its first public countdown and a grand fireworks display Monday night in a celebration unprecedented in the former military-ruled country.
Myanmar will ring in the new year with its first public countdown and a grand fireworks display Monday night in a celebration unprecedented in the former military-ruled country.
Sydney will Monday kick off a wave of dazzling firework displays welcoming in 2013 from Dubai to Moscow and London, with long-isolated Yangon joining the global pyrotechnics for the first time.
The Caloocan City government has ordered the designation of firecracker zones throughout the city as residents prepare to greet the New Year with a bang.
The Makati City government is promising “a different and more exciting” street party and New Year’s Eve countdown on Dec. 31.
At least 10 persons, including two policemen and a soldier, have been appropriately charged after they were found to have been involved in indiscriminate firing of guns before and during the New Year’s Eve celebrations.
Two days before the New Year, two public hospitals in Valenzuela City have already recorded eight cases of revelry-related injuries in the period from Dec. 21.
