Two days prior to the official opening of the Nagasaki Lantern Festival, thousands of lamps were turned on at a rehearsal on Feb. 7, illuminating Chinatown, the "spectacles-shaped" Meganebashi ...

The Lantern Festival is held two weeks after Lunar New Year, which was on 10 February this year and ushered in the Year of the Dragon. The new year is typically celebrated in parts of Asia ...

The Nagasaki Kunchi festival dates back more than 380 years. Participants cast fake fish nets and take part in a dragon dance. Seven people have been killed and 21 injured after a race car ...

A would-be reveller has revealed her horror after buying tickets for a lantern festival advertised on TikTok - amid claims the event is a 'social media scam'. Lantern Festival UK is selling ...

Seoul's night will take off its usual cloak of darkness, replaced instead by the luminous splendor of lotus-shaped lanterns ...

The streets and night skies of Kaohsiung will be bathed in light as the city stages the 2022 Taiwan Lantern Festival, with this year’s event drawing on both tradition and modern innovation to ...

AAPI New Jersey is excited to welcome community members to our fourth annual Lantern Festival for Justice and Remembrance at ...

Lantern Festival UK claims the events include the launching of "hundreds, even thousands, of sky lanterns" Credit: Lantern Festival UK A lantern festival has been labelled as Britain’s answer to ...

CUSTOMERS are demanding refunds for £50 lantern festival tickets after rumours swirled on social media that it was a "scam". The Lantern Festival UK has been advertising on the likes of TikTok ...

It’s been 78 years since the Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and, a few days later, on Nagasaki, Japan. That week in August changed the world forever; ever since, the world’s combined stockpile of ...

This weekend’s Oakland Chinatown Lantern Festival celebration is decidedly new-school: Street food offerings will include Hong Kong curry fish balls, Malagasy hot pepper sauce and Oaxacan chocolate.

The organisers of lantern festival events set to take place in Birmingham and London in the summer have denied suggestions they are a scam. A trading standards investigation was launched after ...