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New Year's Eve

Lifestyle

World bids goodbye to 2025 with fireworks and icy plunges

Hopes for the new year include an end to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine

Ringing in the new year with fireworks over the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House. Much of the world’s population – now more than eight billion – is hoping to shake off high living costs and global tumult in 2024.
Lifestyle

Fireworks, weapons light up skies as world enters 2024

FIREWORKS illuminated skies over Paris, Rio and Sydney to celebrate the entry to 2024, while rockets and strikes marked the year’s earliest hours in Israel, Gaza and Ukraine.

Students from five local educational institutions have created artworks – including the one pictured above, by Shepherdson Cheryl Anne – to highlight social issues in Singapore.
Lifestyle
TAKING HEART

The Majurity Trust, URA shine a light on social issues for Marina Bay countdown

PHILANTHROPIC organisation The Majurity Trust (TMT) has partnered the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) for the Marina Bay Singapore Countdown 2024.

Waterford crystals are installed onto the Times Square New Year's Eve celebration ball on the roof of One Times Square on Dec 27, 2022 in New York City.
Lifestyle
LIFE & CULTURE

New Year’s Eve, as described in fiction, is a grim affair

Novelists over the centuries have taken rather a bleak view of the festivities

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