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Bangkok, Aug 9 (EFE), (Camera: How Hwee Young/Wallace Woon).- Singapore celebrated its 55th birthday on Sunday amid coronavirus restrictions.FOOTAGE OF THE CELEBRATIONS IN SINGAPORE.
Singapore, Aug 6 (EFE/EPA).- Ten of Singapore's major buildings and monuments in the civic district and Marina Bay area shine with patriotic glory every evening this month to celebrate the city-state’s national day.Singapore will celebrate the 55th anniversary of the nation's independence on 9 August.This year's parade will be held with spectators limited to 150, due to the coronavirus pandemic. The former British Crown Colony has transformed itself from a backwater into an economic powerhouse in the past half century, becoming the leading financial and trade center in Southeast Asia. (Camera: HOW HWEE YOUNG).SHOT LIST: THE NATIONAL GALLERY, THE ASIAN CIVILISATION MUSEUM, THE VICTORIA CONCERT HALL, THE HELIX BRIDGE AND THE MARINA BAY SANDS HOTEL LIT IN RED AND WHITE, DURING A NATIONAL DAY-THEMED LIGHT UP IN SINGAPORE.
The crowd went wild as a pyrotechnic bull roared through the Mexican town of Tultepec on Wednesday, spraying a cascade of sparks into dancing revelers taking part in the San Juan de Dios festival. San Juan de Dios is the patron saint of fireworks makers, and Mexicans celebrate his memory with a huge fireworks festival running from March 8 to March 11. Festival goers naturally set off a huge display of all sorts of fireworks, large and small, but one of the most popular sorts are called toritos, which are huge bull-shaped contraptions on wheels, designed to be pulled through the streets while fireworks and sparks jet off and into the crowd. A fireworks explosion in nearby Mexico City had killed 61 people in 1988, and so a ban was placed on such explosives in the city and its surrounding urban areas - including Tultepec. Tultepec was one of Mexico's major fireworks-making locations and the area suffered economically from the prohibition. However, the Mexican National Pyrotechnic Festival was started in 1989 in an effort to draw back tourism to the municipality of Tultepec. So far, it looks like it could be working.
Bosnian Serbs parade in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovinia, to mark the Day of Republika Srpska, their self-proclaimed "national day". The controversial occasion was declared to be "discriminatory" towards other communities by local judiciary in 2015. Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik attends the parade. IMAGES
India celebrates Republic Day with a parade in the main streets of New Delhi. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends the procession with military troops and tanks to colourful floats and national flags were waved in the procession. IMAGES
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