• Anaheim City Council votes to approve Disney's 10-year, $2 billion plan to expand Disneyland Resort

    The city of Anaheim, California, just announced that its City Council voted to approve a Disney project called Disneyland Forward, giving Disney zoning approval to transform parking lots across the street from and near its existing theme parks into new theme park, hotel, and entertainment and retail areas. — Read the rest

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    New Iberia Spanish Festival kicks off its 10th year

    While New Iberia is known for its great food, music, and the Sugar Festival, Peltier said that history helped create the New Iberia Spanish Festival.

  • Yazidi New Year celebration in Lalish Temple [Photos]

    Shafaqan English- Yazidis celebrate their New Year on the first Wednesday of April, based on the Julian and Seleucid calendars; an occasion marked by a ceremony at the Lalish Temple in the mountains of Duhok in the city of Sheikhan in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, where followers of the

  • Eminem celebrates 16 years of sobriety by showing off his new chip

    The “Lose Yourself” rapper took to Instagram this week, sharing a photo of himself holding a sobriety chip in celebration of the milestone.

  • Eminem Celebrates 16 Years Sober With New AA Chip

    [caption id="attachment_3584284" align="alignnone" width="900"] Eminem.[/caption] Eminem is still clean and sober after 16 years. The “Lose Yourself” rapper, 51, celebrated 16 years of sobriety on Saturday, April 20, sharing a photo via Instagram of his hand holding an Alcoholics Anonymous chip to commemorate the milestone. While Eminem (real name Marshall Mathers) did not include a caption alongside the photo, his comments were full of supporters congratulating him for the achievement. ...

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    Eminem Celebrates 16 Years of Sobriety by Showing Off His New Chip

    The 51-year-old rapper previously said that a near-fatal drug overdose in

  • His Majesty the King: Khmer New Year, a festival of great significance

    Khmer New Year is a festival of great significance in cultivating the spirit of national unity and preservation, protection and love for traditions and customs, and in promoting the Khmer civilisation.

  • Cambodia gears up for new year celebrations Borneo Bulletin Online

    ANN/THE STAR – Cambodia is preparing to celebrate its traditional solar new year Choul Chnam Thmey today. Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers have begun to leave the capital Phnom Penh for their hometowns in various provinces in order to enjoy the holiday with their family members. Chum Sina, a 35-year-old deliveryman for a private

  • Poila Baisakh 2024: Date, Celebration and Significance of Bengali New Year

    Pohela Boisakh 2024: Pohela Boishakh, also known as Bengali New Year, is the traditional New Year day celebrated by the Bengali people. It is celebrated in both Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal, as well as among Bengali communities around the world. According to the Bengali Calendar month of Boisakh, this day marks the first day of the year. On this auspicious day, people offer prayers and show gratitude to God. Enjoy this festival with their loved ones. This festival is going to...

  • NPCI pushing new UPI players to offer incentives to expand market share

    Several new third-party payments apps on Unified Payments Interface (UPI) are being nudged by digital payments network manager National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to invest and incentivise consumers.This is primarily aimed at getting users to transact through these new platforms, in order to reduce the risk from high concentration of transactions on the PhonePe and Google Pay platforms that control around 85% market share, three companies told ET.According to people briefed on the...

  • Disneyland's plan to expand, reimagine park with new rides and hotels goes to a vote

    Disneyland's new plan for it's world-famous theme park, including an investment of up to $2.5 billion with new rides, hotels and shops, goes up for a vote to the Anaheim City Council on Tuesday. Exactly what Disneyland plans to build in the coming years is unclear, but the entertainment giant as asking the city to relax zoning rules so the park can have more flexibility. The park would not expand outside its current 100-acre footprint in Anaheim, according to the plan, but Disney is looking to...

  • Poila Baisakh 2024: Date, history, significance and celebration of Bengali New Year

    One of the most special festivals of the Bengali community, Poila Baisakh or Pohela Boishakh, marks the first day of the initial month of Baishakh of the Bengali solar calendar and announces the commencement of the Bengali New Year or Nobo Borso. It is celebrated with much pomp in West Bengal and Bangladesh and also happens to be a national holiday in Bangladesh while coinciding with other regional festivals in India like Baisakhi in Punjab, Vishu in Kerala, Puthandu in Tamil Nadu and Bihu in...