This year, as in the previous nine years, lanterns sent from Shanghai have played a significant role in the Taipei festival, blending traditional Chinese paper-cut art with modern cityscape designs.

At the Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival in northern Taiwan, thousands lined up in the rain to light up and observe wish lanterns. Among them were Mae Alegonero and Shine Ceralvo, friends from the ...

As night falls in the southern Chinese city of Fuzhou, lanterns -- some of them 10 metres high -- transform Hongguang Lake Park into a fantastical land of orange dragons, majestic sailboats ...

They decided to join the event after seeing images of the floating lanterns trending on TikTok. “You experience this once in a lifetime,” Alegonero said, as she sheltered under an umbrella ...

OSAKA--It's difficult to see the stars from the city, but the Okawa river was awash here with its own brilliant blue milky way on July 7 with help from 21st-century magic. Star festival ...

People release sky lanterns in hopes of good fortune and prosperity in the traditional Lantern Festival in the Pingxi district of New Taipei City, Taiwan, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo ...