YANGON, January 19 (Xinhuanet) -- A Myanmar Lacquerware Festival
was inaugurated Saturday in Bagan, the country's ancient city in
northern Mandalay division.
   The five-day lacquerware festival, sponsored by the Cottage
Industries Department of the Myanmar Ministry of Cooperatives, is
aimed at publicizing the country's traditional lacquerware at home
and abroad and promoting the standard of Myanmar lacquerware.
   At the festival, where a wide range of lacquerware, Myanmar
artistic handicrafts and personal goods will be put on sale, will
also be attached with activities covering talks on lacquerware,
related paper reading sessions and lacquerware contests.
   Myanmar's lacquerware enjoy a relatively high degree of
popularity domestically and internationally. There are many
categories of Myanmar lacquerware which include daily household
necessities and handicrafts.  Enditem