On the 5th and 6th February, 2010, a demonstration of traditional culture and ‘Miss Beauty’ competition was conducted within the memorial ceremony and festival to honor the 162nd anniversary of the Banmoon monastery. The celebrations were held at Ban Moon monastery, Ban Moon, Takuapa district, Phang Nga province, Southern Thailand.

Burmese students from Learning Centers in Phang Nga run by the Foundation for Education and Development (FED) also joined in the festival by wearing Burmese ethnic nationalities’ dress, performing Burmese ethnic nationalities’ cultural dances and singing. FED also gave a slide show and projector presentation about the state and division that ethnic nationalities live in and the daily livelihoods, traditional practices, dress wearing, beautiful impression and views of Burma. The competition of Burma Miss Cultural Beauty was also included in the festival and 15 Burmese ethnic young ladies from Phang Nga and Yanaung joined the competition.

Ko Moe Wei, Burmese Migrant Development Department coordinator from FED and one of the members of the steering committee hosting this festival said that; "Local Thai communities invited local NGOs. Village heads and the Leading committee hosting the 162nd anniversary of Ban Moon monastery establishment invited us and asked us to cooperate with them for revealing a cultural expression of the Thai-Burma friendship - that is why we celebrated this festival". He again added; "This invitation is an opportunity for our Burmese communities and it was also an expression of Thai communities' sympathy with the Burmese and it made us feel happy. The festival was successfully and peacefully celebrated for 2 days. Both Burmese and Thai communities accepted and cheered this cultural exhibition and the leading committee also invited the Burmese communities to join the Thai communities whenever there were festivals or ceremonies".

In amongst the stalls at the fair, Burmese traditional costume and dry food goods were also sold. Ma Ei Ei Chaw from Burmese Child Protection Department (Child-Trac) said: "Most of our Burmese communities who stay in Thailand didn't know much about Burmese ethnic nationalities' culture and traditional practices. The objectives of hosting this festival were to let them know and understand the values of ethnic nationalities’ culture and traditional practices, to help Thai societies understand and to enable cultural exchange between Thai and Burmese societies".

Ms. Ninn Ninn Maw, from Nankhim who won the second prize said; "Before I joined the competition I was very excited and felt so happy when I won the prize. I would like to thank those brothers and sisters and organizations who encouraged me to join this competition.” Over forty-five thousand baht was donated to the monastery for partial maintenance from 2 days of selling garlands. The 162nd anniversary monastery festival was celebrated from 1st to 9th of this month and on the 5th and 6th days the floor was given to Burmese migrant workers for friendship and cultural exhibition. To successfully celebrate the festival, local based NGOs such as FED, Child-Trac, IOM, SNF, World Vision, Camillian jointly cooperated with the leading committee and Thai communities.