When the first cars started arriving, speakers blasted ancient ensemble music and broadcast monks’ chants from a pavilion ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) -Revellers dressed in colourful shirts and goggles fired water guns at each other at the start of the Thai ...

I got invited to a local family's home in India to celebrate New Year's.

Amid preparations to open a Williamsburg outpost of her cult-favorite Thai restaurant, the chef shares her Songkran ...

The World Health Organization and the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization this month warned that Lunar New Year festivities celebrated in much of Asia posed an increased risk of spreading the ...

Pohela Boishakh, otherwise popularly known as Pahela Baisakhi or Poila Baisakh, is the celebration of the Bengali New Year or Nabo Barsho in West Bengal as well as Bangladesh. It celebrates the advent ...

Hindu devotees carry a basket with idols of deities of Ganesha, the elephant-headed god, and goddess of wealth Lakshmi to perform rituals on the occasion of Bengali New Year’s day in which traders in ...