The festivities will continue until the end of October.

Firecrackers, dragon dancers, and President Jiang Zemin's visit marked the festivities.

The first day of the new year is filled with festivities.

The 5 days of festivities ended with Dashami, the day of immersion.

Some Russian officials want to unveil a monument Stalin to crown the festivities.

On NewEurasia.net, Loki posts photos from the latest New Year's festivities in Dushanbe.

An estimated 110,000 people visited the region to join in the Toraja festivities.

Once the independence day festivities have retreated, a torpor descends on public life.

Photo of Internet Day Festivities in Peru by Juan Arellano and used with permission.

In one of the Moscow's mosques along the festivities were attended by 80,000 people!

Right now Dhaka is the happiest place on earth full of festivities. Shuvo Noboborsho (Happy new year).

The second issue to clarify is that Brunei did not enforce a total ban of Christmas festivities.

Carols, church bells, and mangers are still at the heart of mid winter festivities, alongside the consumer binge.

In Zurich, Durga puja festivities brought the Bengali community together, like it has been doing for the past six years.

The number of festivities organized by local authorities in the provinces, NGOs, regional offices of ministries and agencies is countless.

The country's most popular blogging platform has published a map of all venues organizing Halloween festivities in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan's capital.

Under another picture, Konovalova revealed that she was working at Red Square in costume as part of the holiday festivities.

This year's festivities had a special theme Onek Alo Jaalte Hobe Moner Ondhokare (Burn many lights in the darkness of hearts).

In response to these criticisms, the mayor of Dushanbe announced that the authorities would continue organizing 'grand' festivities for the New Year's celebrations.

While debates over the appropriateness of participating in Halloween fun rage in Tajikistan, young people in the neighboring Kyrgyzstan revel in Halloween festivities.

Bengalis, who are overwhelmingly the largest (98 ) ethnic group in Bangladesh, customarily celebrate the New Year (Pohela Baishakh) with colourful procession and festivities.

The festivities were prolonged by a further two months when the young groom was finally knighted at the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.

After the New Year s meal, Shreesha, her dad, and cousins lead me through a maze of historical alleyways full of festivities near her old house.

The asado, a cause for Sunday family get togethers, a gathering of friends, football games, birthdays, and other festivities, is never lacking on the Argentine table.

Members of the local internet community also took part by promoting and writing about the festivities, and some even volunteered their time to help out at the event.

I think in this situation, it makes sense to save a little bit of funds by not marking the New Year's Eve as well as many other festivities...

Google's doodle on the day was made with papel picado, a typical decoration for Mexican festivities. Google celebrates the Day of the Dead with a very Mexican Doodle

Another great day trip is a cruise out to Viikinsaari Island especially for the midsummer night festivities, when there is plenty of eating, drinking and dancing around a roaring fire.

They also questioned the Majlis' negation of the no confidence motion and suspension of all meetings until July 31, citing enhanced security arrangements in the capital for the Independence Day festivities.

Argentina's most popular Carnival festivities nicknamed the Carnival of the Country are underway in the city of Gualeguaychú in the province of Entre Rios, just 230 kilometers from the capital Buenos Aires.

The largest festivities happens in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, where tens of thousands of people wearing multicoloured masks and traditional dress march in the Mangal Shobhajatra procession marking the New Year.

Today is Carnival Tuesday in Trinidad and Tobago and though most bloggers are taking part in the festivities, a few of them have managed to post atypical photos of their 2012 Carnival experience...

The Tokyo Sky Tree, Japan's tallest building, which is lit up by the blue LED lights made famous by the recent Japanese Nobel Prize winners, also played a role in the eclipse festivities.

Several of these activities were even livestreamed , offering an opportunity for the diaspora, especially in Los Angeles, California, to watch the festivities and also become aware of local issues, such as the hydroelectric one.

He grew up observing his mother and sister enjoying themselves this day and understood the importance of giving women the chance to enjoy festivities in the same manner men are allowed to do so.

During the last weekend of April 2012, villagers in Santa Cruz Barillas were kicking off their local annual festivities, starting with a beauty pageant to elect the 2012 13 Mayan Q'anjob'al beauty queen, as Pancholon reported on his blog .

Citizen media are not the only ones denouncing government officials' negligence, as Nina Lakhani reported in Al Jazeera Several national newspapers started to suggest that authorities had neglected evacuation plans in Guerrero because they were too caught up in public holiday festivities.