On Jan. 29, millions of people around the world welcomed the Year of the Snake. While the holiday originated in China, many ...

In search of Buddhist conscience (Baudha Hurdasakshiya Soya) (Part II of this article appeared in The Island on Monday – 03) Tissa Ranasinghe’s and Gananath’s Kannagi Gananath’s Pattini book has a ...

Besides the Chinese New Year, the Qilin dance is also performed on such celebratory occasions as weddings, birthday parties, ...

Chinese New Year’ dawned on January 29, 2025. Celebrations, which will last for 15 days, are also known as the ‘Spring ...

While common threads run across cultures, each has its own traditions. For members of the local Vietnamese and Korean communities, the Lunar New Year is a time of celebration, family and food.

A new Sinhala-language book, Sunil Santhage Cinema Gee Pawatha (The Story of Sunil Santha’s Film Songs), published by the Sunil Santha Samajaya, is now available to the public. While numerous books ...

and our guests revealed some of their own New Year traditions. “My parents and a lot of my family were farmers, so this was the time they would have the chicken they’d been raising all year and it was ...

“It's always just been, like, my go to,” Ilagan said. Though she didn’t grow up celebrating the holiday, Ilagan has participated in Lunar New Year events at IU. “My favorite traditions here have been ...

Hawai'i's Asian American communities are ringing in the year of the snake, according to the Chinese zodiac calendar, a 12-year cycle represented by animals. The last year of the snake happened in 2013 ...

Families buy them as symbols of luck and good fortune for the Lunar New Year, which started on Wednesday. This year a typhoon and extreme heat dented the harvest, scrambling prices for kumquats ...

The Chinese New Year, marking the beginning of the lunar calendar, is celebrated worldwide with traditions promoting good luck and avoid bad fortune. Key practices include thorough cleaning before ...