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Fireworks lit up the sky over the Songhua River during a firework show to welcome 2025 in Jilin City, China. [VCG via Getty Images] Revellers turned out in large numbers at the Jiefangbei Monument ...
The two-week Chinese New Year Festival and Parade, sponsored by Southwest Airlines in recent years, includes two fairs, the Chinese New Year Flower Fair and Chinatown Community Street Fair, the Miss Chinatown USA pageant, and concludes with the parade. Miss Chinatown USA is traditionally present at the parade, as is a Golden Dragon which is ...
Happy 2025! In some parts of the world, anyway. The Pacific island nation of Kiribati was the first country to ring in 2025, with its 133,500 citizens celebrating the new year at 5 a.m. ET on Tuesday.
Marysville annually celebrates the Chinese New Year and the god Bok Eye with a festival. The Bok Kai parade has been produced each year since 1880 and is claimed to be the oldest continuing parade in California. [46] Because the festival celebrates Bok Eye according to the Chinese lunar calendar, the date of the parade is different each year.
Australia, Japan, Hong Kong welcome 2025: See pictures of celebrations. Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY. December 31, 2024 at 9:59 AM ... In New Zealand, fireworks burst from the Sky Tower in the capital ...
On New Year's Eve, many localities in the United States and elsewhere mark the beginning of a new year through the raising or lowering of an object.Many of these events are patterned on festivities that have been held at New York City's Times Square since 1908, where a large crystal ball is lowered down a pole atop One Times Square (beginning its descent at 11:59:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and ...
PHOTO: Supporters of President-elect Donald Trump arrive for a MAGA victory rally in Washington, Jan. 19, 2025, one day ahead of Trump's inauguration. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Wildfire smoke from the Southern California wildfires seen over Santa Monica State Beach, 8 January 2025 Winds blew wildfire smoke across Los Angeles, leading to several "very unhealthy" air quality index readings of over 200, with the PM2.5 of the Harrison ES station reaching 184.1 µg/m³, or 36.8 times the annual World Health Organization ...