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Sydney's Opera House and Harbour Bridge switch off their lights for 60 minutes to mark "Earth Hour", the global campaign launched 15 years ago by the World Wide Fund for Nature to raise awareness of environmental issues and climate change. IMAGES
Beijing, Feb 26 (EFE/EPA).- China celebrated the Lantern Festival Friday with adorned streets, marking the end of two-week long New Year celebrations.(Camera: WU HONG)SHOT LIST: THE LANTERN FESTIVAL IN BEIJING, CHINA.
Shanghai, Feb 15 (EFE/EPA).- Tourist attractions, sports venues, movies, and other attractions in Shanghai are flooded with people who could not go back home to celebrate the Spring Festival due to the new outbreak of COVID-19 in China, government regulations, and travel restrictions. Spring Festival usually lasts 16 days, starting from Chinese New Year's eve to the Lantern Festival which runs from February 11 to 26. (Camera: ALEX PLAVEVSKI).SHOT LIST: SPRING FESTIVAL CELEBRATIONS IN SHANGHAI, CHINA.
Paris celebrates Chinese New Year with a colorful parade, as the viral illness outbreak has led to the cancelation of Lunar New Year festivities in Beijing, along with temporary closures of Beijing's Forbidden City, Shanghai's Disneyland and a section of the Great Wall. IMAGES
Chile, Dec 3 (EFE).- The first exhibition in Latin America of Fesiluz, known internationally as the Sichuan Chinese Lantern Festival, has kicked off in Santiago, offering the Chilean capital some peace and transquility amid the social unrest that has gripped that country for more than a month. (Camera: JOSÉ CAVIEDES).FOOTAGE SHOWING THE 'FESILUZ' CHINESE LANTERN FESTIVAL IN SANTIAGO'S QUINTA NORMAL MUNICIPALITY, CHILE.
Santiago, Dec 3 (EFE).- The International Chinese Lantern Festival (Fesiluz, initials in Spanish) has arrived in Chile for its first exhibition in Latin America and is offering an "island of peace" to visitors amid the ongoing social upheaval in the country. Situated in Santiago's northwestern Quinta Normal district, the festival is attracting crowds with thousands of colorful lanterns shaped like dragons, swans, water lilies and other symbols of Chinese culture. (Camera: JOSÉ CAVIEDES Editor: AYEESHA HOLDER).FOOTAGE SHOWING THE 'FESILUZ' CHINESE LANTERN FESTIVAL IN SANTIAGO'S QUINTA NORMAL MUNICIPALITY, CHILE.
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