On the night of Jan 22, haggis and whiskey were offered at the Red Lion pub in the Kaifu district of Changsha, Hunan province. Joyful participants read poems and performed the Ceilidh, a traditional Scottish dance, to celebrate the coming of Burns Night.
SYDNEY－To celebrate the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year, the Royal Australian Mint has released a new collection of coins featuring the charming and powerful tiger, and the Chinese Lunar Year calendar wheel.
AMMAN－A special exhibition, featuring 400 paintings drawn by 890 children with cancer from Jordan and abroad, ended last Thursday as part of a charity campaign aiming to boost the morale of the children fighting cancers.
Chinese and French artists will perform together in a concert, titled Peace, Friendship, Love, which will be broadcast on French television network TV5Monde on Feb 1, Spring Festival, or the Chinese Lunar New Year.
Many Chinese New Year customs have been widely observed for thousands of years. The family reunion dinner, pasting couplets and setting off fireworks are must-dos during Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival.
An exhibition of 40 photos reflecting different aspects of Jewish culture by photographers from Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland opened at the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum on Thursday, which marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The first Global Youth Readers Club was launched in Malaysia at a Spring Festival salon via an online ceremony on Saturday, which was joined by guests from Beijing and Kuala Lumpur.
On the evening of Jan 24 — 10 days before the Beijing Winter Olympics by local time — the Landmark Cairo Tower in Egypt’s capital staged a light show.
The China Tourism Office in Rome and the Chinese Consulate-General in Milan held an online reception to celebrate the coming Chinese Lunar New Year and Winter Olympic Games on Jan 25.
A special zodiac stamp issued by the Hungarian Post to celebrate the Chinese New Year of the Tiger was presented at an online ceremony here on Tuesday.
The China Cultural Center in Seoul held an online activity promoting Chinese intangible cultural heritage paper-cutting in Seoul on Jan 22.
Although most of performances for the upcoming Chinese lunar New Year celebrations are canceled in Manila due to epidemic prevention and control measures, local dragon and lion costume workshops still work on creations for customers who are ready to buy or rent the costumes to display.
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