The use of firecrackers, a holiday staple, has roots in Chinese mythology. A new tear monster called “Nian,” or Year, was said to visit and terrorize villages, eating residents. People would leave ...

A customs officers shows a sub-standard firecracker before detroying a total of 2600 boxed of them in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on February 11, 2007, a week before the ...

Known as the hometown of fireworks in China, Liuyang, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Changsha, has been ...

As Independence Day (August 14) approaches, the streets and neighbourhoods of Rawalpindi have descended into a cacophony of noise, with children and boisterous youths causing widespread disturbance ...

VIRUDHUNAGAR: The Federation of Tamil Nadu Fireworks Traders on Tuesday claimed that the revenue from the sale of ...

In a major crackdown on smuggling of Chinese firecrackers and fireworks into India, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), in an operation codenamed Operation Fire Trail, successfully ...