The Chinese New Year is celebrated with family dinners, fireworks, red envelope gifts (hóngbāo in Chinese, bao lì xì in Vietnamese), and parades. This year honours the Snake, which represents ...

The Chinese New Year Parade, one of two major events jamming San Francisco over the weekend, drew huge crowds Saturday for its joyful mix of acrobatic lion dancers, live drums and red fireworks.

Hong Kong’s New Year’s Eve pyrotechnics will return with a bang – the biggest yet – and a four seasons theme, with the display designed by the director of fireworks for the 2008 Beijing ...