The News Review:
- Taiwan Lantern Festival causes concern for environmentalists
- Chinese people prepare for Lantern Festival
- In Pictures: The World’s Most Impressive Festivals
- A festival of music from the South
- Fremantle Street Arts Festival
Taiwan Lantern Festival causes concern for environmentalists
International Herald Tribune – Feb 20, 2008
Like a hot-air balloon the illuminated lantern rose from their outstretched hands up into the darkness. Written in ink on the lantern was a plea to the gods for romantic intervention: “We've been good girls – please send us men. ” Every year during the Lantern Festival thousands of people in Taiwan light such lanterns and send them skyward with prayers – a folk ritual dating back centuries that has counterparts on the mainland as well as in Japan Vietnam and Thailand. In Taiwan the festival reaches a climax here Thursday the 15th day of the first month in the lunar calendar.
Chinese people prepare for Lantern Festival
央è§åé – Feb 20, 2008
com | 02-20-2008 13:25 Chinese people are looking forward to the Lantern Festival which falls on Thursday this year the 15th day of the first lunar month. Some 4000 people hold these lanterns producing a spectacular sight. Residents of the city of Binyang in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region always perform dragon dancing four days before the Lantern Festival as a way to wish good luck and prosperity.
In Pictures: The World’s Most Impressive Festivals
Forbes – Feb 20, 2008
Typically held in February Carnival draws some 500000 revelers who converge on the city for the Samba parade which features scads of flamboyant and scantily clad dancers competing in a dance-off. Leave your inhibitions at home for this one.
A festival of music from the South
Hindu – Feb 20, 2008
The festival will be held in Ambedkar Auditorium of Andhra Pradesh Bhawan. The festival will be inaugurated by the Managing Director of The Hindu N. Murali who is also the President of the Music Academy in Chennai. Sree Shanmukhananda Sangeetha Sabha has long been engaged in propagation of fine arts particularly music and dance in the Capital.
Fremantle Street Arts Festival
NEWS.com.au – Feb 20, 2008
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