Thai New Year Festival of 2010

ဒီနေ့(ဧပြီ ၄ မှာ)မှာ ယိုးဒယားတွေလည်း နှစ်သစ်ကူးပွဲလုပ်ပါတယ်။ ကယ်လီဖိုးနီးယား၊ ဟောလိဝုဒ်မှာပါတဲ့။ အဲဒီနေရာကယိုးဒယားတွေအများဆုံးနေတာဖြစ်ပါတယ်။
သူတို့ကလူဦးရေများတော့ လမ်းမကြီးတောင်ပိတ်ပြီးလုပ်တယ်ရေးထားတာပဲ..။

အချိန်မှီသေးရင် သွားလည်လို့ရအောင်ပါ..။

အောက်မှာ ဝက်ဘ်ဆိုက်သတင်ဖတ်ဖို့..။ အောက်ဆုံးမှာ Thai Town ဖြစ်လာပုံအကျဉ်းချုပ်ပါ။ Bama Town တွေဘာတွေ လုပ်ချင်သူတွေ ဖတ်ဖို ့မှတ်တန်းကျန်အောင် ကူးတင်ပေးလိုက်ပါတယ်။

စပွန်ဆာတွေက လေကြောင်းလိုင်းတွေနဲ့ ထိုင်းသံရုံး၊ ပါတာတွေ့ရပြီး ဈေးရောင်းဖို ့နေရာတွေ Boothတွေကို ဝက်ဘ်ဆိုက်နေနေ မှတ်ပုံတင်လို့ရပါတယ် ၃၀၀-၃၅ဝ ဒေါ်လာလို့တွေ့ရပါတယ်။
ရက်ဖယ်က ဟွန်ဒါ စီဗစ် ၂၀၁ဝ ဖြစ်နေပါတယ်။ ကျုပ်တို့ မဟာသင်္ကြန်အယ်အေပွဲနဲ့တော့ တော်တော်ကွာသေးတာတွေ့ရပါတယ်။ ကွာဆို ဗမာတွေက လက်ရှိအာဏာရအစိုးရနဲ့မှ အစဉ်မပြေတာမို ့..လေကြောင်းလိုင်းတွေဆီကလည်း စပွန်ဆာ ယူလို့မရတာကိုး..။
ဒါကြောင့် ဗမာတွေက အမေရိကန်ပြည်ထောင်စုမှာနေကြလည်း ကိုယ်ဒုက္ခနဲ့ကိုယ်ပဲဆိုပါတော့။

Thai New Year.

Thai Town, Hollywood Boulevard between Western and Normandie. Parking information at the website: http://www.thainewyear.com/en/index.aspx

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Thai New Year Festival of 2010: A big united event of Thai society in USA
It is exciting time when you will have experience in all aspects of Thai such as, ancient crafts and arts, remarkable culture, Thai heritage and ancient-unique traditions, delicious Thai food, apparel, martial arts, the world-class beautiful tourist attractions, Thai sophisticated manners, warm hospitality, and friendliness of Thai people.
This world class event will be presented to the locals and visitors in California to experience the most extraordinary cultural festival to be known as the “Biggest Cultural Event Outside Thailand”
“Thai New Year’s Day Songkran Festival “No. 7 is a celebration of the Thai New Year will be held on Sunday, April 4, 2010. We will close roads on Hollywood BLVD in Thai Town area nearly one mile for Americans and visitors in California to experience the most delicacy of Thai sophisticated culture and tradition.
“Thai New Year’s Day Festival Songkran”is a period of Thais in Los Angeles who will take their parents, adult relatives and children to join in the important ceremony of the Thai New Year ceremony known among Thais as “พิธี รดน้ำดำหัว” (pour water on the hands of revered elders and ask for blessing), doing merit, shopping as well as to watching performances of the variety of artists.
We are proud to invite you to join us with the great pride of Thai culture and traditions of “Thai New Year’s Day Festival Songkran Festival 2010 “.
Come with us to explore and experience the most unique and amazing Thai Cultural Songkran Festival 2010.

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History of Thai Town

A longtime hope of Thai people living in USA eventually came true when the LA city council voted approval for naming the western area of Los Angeles city as “Thai Town”. The grand opening ceremony of Thai town was held on Saturday of the 29th January 2000.
Jackie Goldberg , a councilwoman, was the one who brought the “Thai Town” agenda to the LA city council after a long term campaign strongly supported by Thai-American groups. These groups of people aimed to see “Thai town” being designated same as the populated areas of Korean people and Chinese people called as “Korea Town” and “China Town” accordingly.

The Los Angeles City Council reached a consensus agreement on the 27th of October 1999 to name the area between Western street and Normandie street as “Thai Town”. This announcement can well be seen as the historical accomplishment for Thai society in the USA, especially for those who live in LA.

Chanchanit (or Chancee) Martorell, Executive Director of Thai Trade Development Center, who is the one who started calling the LA city council to enact and enforce the “Thai Town” designation agenda, joined with Supoj Teerakaosun, Thai Consul General, Jackie Goldberg, Council woman, as the hosts for the grand opening of “Thai Town” on Saturday of the 29th of January 2000 at the front of Thailand’s Plaza located on Hollywood Blvd. Besides the hosts, in this opening ceremony, important Los Angeles political figures such as Scott Wildman, Assemblyman, and Antonio Villaraigosa, LA Mayor also attended the ceremony.

Thai well- known guests, led by Songsil Suksawee, Director of the Thai Trade Center in Los Angeles, Chalermkiet Suwanmart, General Manager of the Thai Airways in USA, Nipan Rojanasopondist, the President of Thai Chamber of Commerce, harmoniously joined this historical moment.

Thai Trade Center announced that “Thai Town” designation reveals the recognition of the LA City Council on the high populated number of Thais living mostly in Hollywood city and some in San Fernando Valley city. Based on the 1990 consensus, at least 80,000 Thai people are living in the Southern of California. In addition, “Thai Town” also shows the equal respect that Thais have received as well as other condensed Asian societies (Chinese, Korean, or Japanese) living in the Southern California and have their recognized towns also.

In addition, Thai town will be in part of the city’s economic development plan aiming to improve the Hollywood area that had been neglected since the last earth quake in Northridge in 1994.

Thai town is expected to be the great tourist spot for both international and American tourists, who come to enjoy Hollywood and stop by for shopping Thai gifts and enjoying Thai foods from Thai restaurants surrounded in Thai town. A sign of “Thai Town” will be hung right before the entering “Thai town” both from the north and the south.