People participate in the first day of Thingyan Water Festival in Naypyitaw, Myanmar on April 13, 2018. The annual water festival, known as Thingyan, features large groups of people congregating to celebrate the by splashing water and throwing powder at each other's faces as a symbol of cleansing and washing away the sins from the old year. It marks the start of the traditional New Year and is similarly celebrated in countries such as Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. (Photo by Hein Htet/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

People search for shells on a beach in Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar, 17 September 2020. International Coastal Cleanup Day is observed annually on the third Saturday of September and will occur on 19 September this year. (Photo by Nyunt Win/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

A man falls from an ox cart as he competes during an ox cart competition near U Bein bridge, in Mandalay March 22, 2015. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)

A Burmese worker sets up Christmas lights inside a woman's clothing store inside a shopping mall December 6, 2011 in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

In this May 17, 2015, photo, two men walk past pagodas at Ngwe Saung beach, Pathein township, about 145 miles from Yangon, Myanmar. (Photo by Khin Maung Win/AP Photo)

A man sells eels caught for a meal amid a lockdown to slow the spread of coronavirus, in a slum area of Yangon, Myanmar, October 21, 2020. (Photo by Shwe Paw Mya Tin/Reuters)

This photo taken on February 9, 2020 shows children playing in front of their homes in Tarmaw Lawri village in the Lahe township in Myanmar's Sagaing region. A haunting refrain pierces the night as the tribeswomen of the Gongwang Bonyo, among the most isolated people in Myanmar, dance around a campfire to bless the harvest ahead. (Photo by Ye Aung Thu/AFP Photo)

Volunteers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) carry the body of a victim of the Covid-19 coronavirus to a cemetery in Hlegu Township in Yangon on July 10, 2021. (Photo by Ye Aung Thu/AFP Photo)