The 2016 Edinburgh International Film Festival opened on Wednesday evening with the world premiere of British film "Tommy's Honour."
The Confucius Institute at Abomey-Calavi University in Benin has celebrated the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional Chinese festival that falls on June 9 this year.
The countdown has begun for the world's largest light, music and ideas festival, Vivid Sydney.
Unlike world famous film festivals, Gaza film festival dedicated the 40-meter long red carpet to ordinary visitors, rather than movie stars.
Woody Allen's new film opens the festival in France, amid heightened security
A total of 36 people have been killed and 316 people injured during Myanmar's Thingyan water festival, official media reported on Monday.
One person was killed and 14 others injured in accidental cases on Tuesday, the first day of Myanmar's Thingyan water festival, the police said on Thursday.
Armed with water pistols and buckets, celebrants took part in the annual water festival Songkran in Thailand on Wednesday, amid a severe drought.
An estimated 500,000 world visitors are joining the water splashing Songkran festival, beginning on Wednesday, at varied tourist spots throughout Thailand, Thai tourist official said.
Myanmar's traditional Thingyan Water Festival kicked off across the country Tuesday morning with the opening ceremony of the festival launched at the Presidential Palace in Nay Pyi Taw.
Yangon dwellers, especially the young, are preparing to celebrate Myanmar's upcoming Thingyan, a five-day water festival this year due to fall on next Tuesday.
After being rescued from a truck carrying dogs illegally in July, a three-year-old greyhound received a new name, new owner and new family.
Up to 700,000 Australians are expected to flock to Melbourne's city center on Saturday evening, when the White Night art festival returns to wow audiences from sundown to sunrise.
Fourteen-year-old Chen Yiyue, who is half-Chinese, half-French, has always relished the atmosphere of a Chinese Spring Festival celebration. When her mother invites friends to dine with them during that festival, the table is full of delicious food, ladies all wear red and grandparents give her cash-stuffed red envelopes.
A special jury of international film critics at the festival considered the film "one of the best films of a master director, and an example of the martial arts genre which is elevated into the realm of art by its superb visual style."
Today is the ‘festival of lights’ in the Tamil Hindu Calendar; Deepavali. Celebrations and pujas will be held throughout the day at temples and homes while the night time would be reserved for the lighting of lamps and firecrackers.
Sixteen countries will participate in a festival from Sept. 10-13 in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City, showcasing their cultural identities, local newspaper Vietnam News reported Tuesday.
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