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In Chiang Mai, the festival lasts three days, and in 2024, the dates are 15-16 November. In Thailand, the festival is known as Loi Krathong. Outside Thailand, this festival is celebrated under different names, including Myanmar as the "Tazaungdaing festival", Sri Lanka as "Il Full Moon Poya", China as "Lantern Festival" and Cambodia as "Bon Om ...
4 January – Myanmar repatriates 151 Thai prisoners. [2] [3] 7 January Missing Chinese actor Wang Xing is found in Myanmar by Thai officials after being lured to Myanmar, with the case attracting attention on Chinese social media. [4] [5] [6] Former Cambodian opposition MP Lim Kimya is shot dead in Bangkok shortly after arriving from Cambodia. [7]
Today, the displaying of lanterns is still a major event on the fifteenth day of the first lunisolar month throughout China. Chengdu in southwest China's Sichuan Province, for example, holds a lantern fair each year in Culture Park. During the Lantern Festival, the park is a virtual ocean of lanterns. Many new designs attract large numbers of ...
Thanks to a rather lukewarm live music season in 2024, the music fest and concert scene is ready to come back to life in 2025. What does the year hold in store, and will 2025 be the comeback year ...
A girl wearing Isan style Sinh at Ubon Ratchathani Candle Festival, 2004 A figure on one of the floats. The candles are carved a couple of days before the procession. On Asanha Bucha day, the candles are taken to Thung Si Mueang, a park in the middle of the city, where they are decorated and then exhibited in the evening.
The following is an incomplete list of festivals in Asia, with links to separate lists by country and region where applicable.This list includes festivals of diverse types, including regional festivals, commerce festivals, film festivals, folk festivals, carnivals, recurring festivals on holidays, and music festivals. [1]
Experts say 2025 will be a particularly good year for the annual meteor shower as it will occur on a moonless night, allowing stargazers to see as many as 120 shooting stars per hour.
Chotrul Duchen, a festival celebrated in Tibet as an Uposatha day and falls on around the same day as Māgha Pūjā; First Full Moon Festival, a festival celebrated in China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam as an Uposatha day and to mark the end of the Lunar New Year, falling on or around the same day as Māgha Pūjā Lantern Festival, in China and Taiwan