U Kyi Soe Tun (Chairman, Myanmar Motion Pictures Organization)
According to the law of nature, the old fades away, and the new emerges. The old year has ended, and we have now entered the New Year. Learning lessons from the mistakes and shortcomings of the past year and continuing to strive so that good things may flourish in the New Year is a responsibility of human life.
U Myat Thu
(Tekkatho Myat Thu)
Myanmar’s traditional New Year falls in the month of Tagu, but this New Year is the global New Year. A New Year signifies leaving the old behind and moving forward toward renewal. At this New Year moment, the State is moving forward by holding a major election that carefully implements the democratic system. The people themselves are actively participating with awareness and casting their votes to obtain democratically legitimate representatives for the country. No matter what anyone says, the majority of the public can see the truth clearly. Having come to understand who is constructive and who is destructive, a new democratic State will emerge. In other words, a people’s democratic government chosen and implemented by the people themselves will come to power and work to advance the country.
U Ye Htun, Chairman, Young Men’s Buddhist Association (Central) – YMBA
As the year 2025 comes to an end and we move into 2026, I would like to extend my heartfelt prayers to all citizens of Myanmar and to people around the world for peace and good health. I strongly urge all Myanmar citizens to work together to achieve the four objectives of the National Defence and Security Council and to successfully hold the multiparty democratic general election to ensure the stability and development of the country.
I would like to convey a message on the New Year for 2026 to all.
According to the Buddha’s teachings, just as there are many kinds of suffering in the world, there are also many kinds of worldly prosperity. To attain such worldly prosperity, one must possess wide knowledge; when one has wide knowledge, wisdom increases, and when wisdom increases, one can work to achieve prosperity. Therefore, strive to acquire wide knowledge.
Today marks the New Year’s auspicious moment of the year 2026, observed by people around the world. From this New Year’s moment of 2026 onward, I extend special loving-kindness and wishes that all people of the world, regardless of race or religion, including the monks and people of Myanmar, may be healthy, prosperous, free from danger, and blessed with all forms of happiness and auspiciousness in the New Year.
