When tiger dancers from Hainan first arrived in Singapore, their craft was overshadowed by the more established and popular ...

The Silver Pride Lion Troupe has coaxed more than a dozen elderly people out of retirement to perform a revered Lunar New Year tradition - Copyright AFP Roslan RAHMAN ...

SINGAPORE (AP) — Performers from Southeast Asia took part in an international lion dance competition in Singapore ahead of the Lunar New Year, the most important holiday in the Chinese calendar. The ...

Nearly 2 billion people are set to celebrate Lunar New Year Wednesday and the year of the wood snake. There are all kinds of customs and traditions that come with the holiday. Families gather to ...

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The colourful lion blinks and bobs up and down to the beat of a drum, appearing like any other traditional Lunar New Year performance with one difference –- it is operated by an 80-year-old man ...

NPR's Pien Huang speaks with journalist Grace Yeoh, who spent a month with a championship lion dancing team, about the rigors of the dance and what makes it so demanding. Nearly 2 billion people are ...