Several Southeast Asian countries are kicking off their annual water festival holiday, an occasion for merrymaking during ...

Thus, Chinese people eat fish during the Lunar New Year in hopes of having a plentiful year. But they will not finish the whole fish, as the leftovers symbolise the desire to have so much that ...

Sunday's quake occurred on the morning of the first day of the country's three-day Thingyan holiday, which celebrates the traditional new year. Public festivities for the holiday had already been ...

BANGKOK, April 13 (Reuters) - Revellers dressed in colourful shirts and goggles fired water guns at each other at the start of the Thai New Year on Sunday, a festival that is marked with water as ...