#festive

Collection of festive news, found 157 news.

News Feature

Five Mountains Festival: Solemn prayer for safety during pandemic

With the sun beaming brightly, wind blowing gently, and birds chirping merrily, nothing seemed out-of-the-ordinary that ...

Statistics Bureau: Purchasing power continuing to weaken

Head of the Central Bureau of Statistics, Suhariyanto, has said that the people’s purchasing power is still ...

Hong Kong Tourism Board brings the popular Hong Kong Wine & Dine Festival to the virtual space

In view of the uncertainties concerning the Covid-19 pandemic, the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) today announced that ...

Commemoration of Indonesia's 75th Independence Day held solemnly

An official ceremony to commemorate Indonesia's 75th Independence Day at the Merdeka Palace, Jakarta, on Monday was ...

Weekend Stories

Impact of COVID-19 on the tradition of 'mudik' in Indonesia

For Indonesians, the festivities in the month of Ramadhan are marked by a number of traditions, one of which is ...

BI survey indicates retail sales seasonally declined in January 2020

The latest retail sales survey conducted by Bank Indonesia (BI) showed that retail sales had tracked a seasonal decline ...

Weekend Stories

Celebrating unity in diversity as Chinese New Year arrives

The town has been painted red, quite literally, symbolizing good fortune, luck, abundance, and joy to enliven the 2571 ...

A sea of lanterns bedazzle Singkawang's Chinese New Year celebrations

Singkawang City in West Kalimantan has been bedecked with some 10 thousand festive red lanterns, emblematic of the ...

GWK Bali New Year's Eve celebrations to feature 20,000 fireworks

The 2020 New Year's Eve celebrations at Garuda Wisnu Kencana (GWK) Cultural Park, Bali, will feature 20,000 shots ...

Carol singers perform at Jakarta MRT station

Carol singers from the Church of Salvation performed for Jakartans in the Blok M MRT Station, Thursday night, from 6 to ...

Meet north China's Xilingol League in colorful, passionate winter

-Since ancient times, there have been three popular themes about winter in literary works, namely snow, paleness and ...

News Feature

Integrating modern motifs in traditional batik

A festive nuance, a modern touch, as well as vibrant colors could be enough to describe pieces of batik clothes draped ...

Discovering Jakarta

Indonesians in tunic dresses: Indian descendants in Pasar Baru

Sukomala wore an apron while entering the alley and welcomed three women guests whom she ushered through a ...

The 2019 Chinese Farmers’ Harvest Festival and the first China Meizhou International Elite Summit of tea industry held in Meizhou, Guangdong

-On September 23, China celebrates not just the autumnal equinox, the 16th of China's 24 solar terms, but also its ...

Inflation controlled in August 2019: BI

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation was kept under control in August 2019 with inflation at 0.12 percent (mtm) in ...